This is another pass at the layout. I still need to fix some timing and poses issues. I think I’ll tweak the layout once again before I go to blocking.
But this is a big project, and I think it will be wise to switch to make time for smaller shots. More to come soon!
Last weekend, Fri-Sat to be exact, I attended the Global Game Jam event here in Hertzlia. For those of you who are not aware, the GGJ is an international game development event taking place at the same time in many countries all over the world.
My friends Dan, Yoni and I teamed up with Sagiv and we created some sort of a prototype for a Flash based guitar-hero style game. We named it Dance Fail Revolution. The idea is to dance the hero into “sealing the deal” with a girl in a club by pressing the right keys along with the music. Failing to do so will cause the character to fall down and embarrass himself. Since the development time was limited to 48 hours, we didn’t manage to really finish the game, but it is playable and really fun.
I was responsible for the design and animation, while the rest of the team coded the game and the level editor (which lets you record keys while listening to a song and put it in the game to play). As you can see, the design we went with was some retro Atari old fashioned style, which we really like. We were also heavily inspired by Junior Senior’s video for Move Your Feet.
This last weekend’s experience was amazing. We were working in some school lab all weekend long, and completely lost track of time.
Anyway, the game is not finished, but you can download it from the game’s page at the GGJ website here.
The amazing team behind Fail Dance Revolution. From left to right: Me, Yoni, Sagiv and Dan
A great week it has been. Lots of stuff has been done. I hope to upload the finished result of the last shot I made last week and a WIP of a new one I’m currently working on. In the meantime, here are a few things I found out about during this week that I would like to share with the rest of the world. You have here 2 trailers for horror flicks, some design work, some animation and more!
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Parkour Motion I love parkour. You must have a combination of superb physical strength and you must know how to use it to move around in an urban environment. And this little video brings another thing I love into this mix, which is animation, of course.
The Marionette Unit
A trailer for an upcoming Victorian sci-fi, or steampunk, horror movie. Check out the awesome website to see some artwork here.
Vladimir Rachev
Vladimir is a fantastic designer. I got to know him from a Kitsune Noir post from earlier this week. Vladimir does a lot of interior, industrial and graphic design, and shows a lot of stuff on his website. His works are usually minimalistic and have a very clean design. He likes to take one product and mix it with a design of another, which creates some interesting ideas (i.e. the shaver in the shape of the desk lamp below).
I love his website because it reflects his minimalist design.
City of Darkness
I found this article on Design Observer about Kowloon Walled City, and it immediately sparkled my imagination. This strange city block in the middle of Hong Kong was about 33m^2 big, and it was mostly made out of slums, apartments and garbage stacked together. It was a dense settlement under the control of Triads. There were about 33,000 people living in it back in 1987, right before the government decided to tear the place down. I can sum this place up by saying it was a low-life city within a city taken straight out of a cyberpunk story, only without the sci-fi hi-tech stuff. Once I get a few days with some spare time I really want to make some drawings, or even 3D scenes inspired by this magnificent place.
The Walled City is described in the book City of Darkness by Ian Lambot.
New trailer for Tony
Thanks to sites like Quiet Earth, I’m able to stay up to date with all the upcoming horror movies. One of them is Tony, a serial killer horror flick. There were a few teasers a couple of weeks ago, but now there’s a trailer. I don’t know why, but he really reminds me of a pissed off version of Kip (from Napoleon dynamite). I guess it’s the weird hair and big glasses. Anyway, check it out. Sweet stuff.
Opening title for a Tel Aviv documentary
The opening sequence for Tel Aviv Jaffa documentary series celebrating the 100th anniversary of the city. It’s a beautiful presentation of a miniature of the city inside a room (or a gallery). The windows outside show a typical Tel Aviv architecture, so it makes you realize you watch the entire city from inside the city, and both the miniature and the real world share the same sun coming from the windows. In this video you can see important locations in the city, like the fisrt kiosk in the city located on Rothchild blvd., Dizengoff Square and Azrieli Towers.
Angst I’ll finish with another short by Emiel Penders. I just love the animation and the mood here.
Inception teaser #2
This sci-fi thriller looks pretty cool
Ruben Fernandez’s Oasis Terminal
A nice short directed by Fernandez set in a post apocalyptic world. The story revolved around a guerrilla fighter, his mission, his dream of the mythical haven Oasis Terminal and the memories of older, better times.
Another AM gathering took place at a sushi restaurant in Tel Aviv and it was very fun. Thanks Gabi for making all the arrangements and Liron for taking pictures!
This is just in: A rare photograph of the inside of my lair has just been found! See for yourselves this unbelievable footage of my desk at home, and an enhanced zoom of my rat, Bertie, sitting, quite scared, on my monitor.
BTW, that thing you see on screen is a test rig I’m trying. Very simple, actually, but I hope to get some kick ass animation on it pretty soon, so stay tuned for some more!
A little late, yes I know. And not too many for this week, since I’m terribly busy. I hope you enjoy!
Zerebrale Dichotomie A nice little video showing in a funny way how we make decisions in the neurological level, using funny characters on an everyday situation. Produced by students of the University of Applied Science Upper Austria. They also have a website.
Google stop motion for Chrome
Google once again surprises us with innovative ideas. This time they created this fantastic film showing in a relaxed “for dummies” way why Google Chome (which is my favorite browser, by the way) is the best in the field.
Oleg Denisenko
Found it on Gothic Tea Society blog. Oleg is an etching artist from Ukraine. He creates fantastic etches with an immense amount of detail. He’s inspired by his native Eastern Europe artistic style, and it’s clear there’s lots of Chinese influence in there too. The backgrounds in his works are detailed with abstracts that remind me of astrological charts and signs. For some reason he depicts most of his horses as dead and bony and having wheels instead of their hind legs.
Voodoo I love French animation. Not only do they have 300 kinds of cheese, these French make some of the best animations I’ve ever seen. Sometimes they even surpass the Japanese. This one is pretty awesome. It reminds me a bit of Fumico’s Confession, which I’ve shown here a few weeks ago, because of the style of chase and narrow perspective they use. You’ve gotta check it out!
Mag+
This beautiful video was created by BERG, a technology design consultancy from London. This is how they envision the future of the next generation of E-readers.
This is my selection from the past week, folks. There’s some design, animation, illustration, photography and some trailers for everyone. Enjoy.
Sugimoto Kousuke’s The TV Show
Amazing little animation. Complicated transitions between shots that are inside of other shots.
2033 trailer
This is the trailer for Francisco Laresgoiti upcoming dystopian sci-fi movie. The story, as summarized in this post on Quiet Earth, is about a futuristic Mexico City under a militaristic regime that controls the population by an addictive drink called Pactia. Two heroes set on an adventure to free the city and restore peace and freedom to the city. I don’t know about you, but this trailer makes this movie look like a combination of Equilibrium and Children of Men, both of them I really love. It looks well produced and I hope I’ll get the chance to watch it once it’s out. In the meantime, enjoy the trailer:
Photo gallery of Dubai
Taken from the blog of Nathan Lipson, an economy journalist and strategic manager in TheMarker. In his post he talks about his trip to Dubai and Abu Dhabi and shows amazing photos of the expensive Burj al-Arab hotel and restaurant, the infamous tower Burj Dubai (818 meters tall!), plenty of luxury cars and the artificial islands. He also mentioned the new rapid metro system, which I hold a special memory of since I took part in a production of a presentation for it’s inauguration ceremony a few months ago.
Ville Varumo
This Finnish photographer showcases a great gallery of photos that have an amazing crisp and bright quality. Each one of them is slick, sharp and rich with detail. Here is but a taste:
The Duplicator Series: new titles for Cartoon Network! Meindbender created these funky clips for Cartoon Network. They’re really awesome and have great animation. Check them out in this forum post: http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=71936
Illustrator Kitty Valentine
This British artist takes old postcards (but also makes original drawings) and modifies them in a special Victorian way which I like very much.
Last weekend, Fri-Sat to be exact, I attended the Global Game Jam event here in Hertzlia. For those of you who are not aware, the GGJ is an international game development event taking place at the same time in many countries all over the world.
