Because the Siggraph CAF’s jury seems to kind of like what we did the last year (Loom, Mem), the Polynoid crew (unfortunately Tom will be missing) is going to attend the show! We will be having a making of presentation on Tuesday, so if you missed it a FMX in May, here is your second chance! There will also be a small FMX booth that we will be hosting on Sunday (25th, whole day), Monday (26th, 1:30- 6:00 p.m.) and Thursday (29th, 1:30- 6:00 p.m.), so help us having a good time there by stopping by and having a chat with us, we’re looking forward to it!
Finally, there is time to write down some of the sentences we spoke during our talk at the FMX! I´m going to start with the part about animating strands, because it covers many of the things we learned about ICE during the production of Loom.
The Polynoid boys have some news to share! First of all, Polynoid’s home in the cloud has been updated with our latest projects: there is a teaser of our newest short “loom”, as well as a full version of “mem” and we have a 2010 reel. Check it out and let us know what you think! And for those who are interested in having a closer look at the way we work: we are set to talk about that during our workshop at the FMX 2010 on wednesday, may 05, 5-6 p.m.. See you!
Berlin based artist crew transforma and french director Yro are set to premiere their collaborative project “Asynthome” on friday, april 9th at NÉMO LE FESTIVAL DES ARTS NUMÉRIQUES. Asynthome is a Live AV- Performance and the teaser (above) looks awesome. I love how transforma handcraft their stunning visuals and everytime I see some of their work I’m wondering why we are going through the painful process of exclusively using computer generated imagery for our work instead of, you know, “real” life. You just have to watch the making of “synken” to get jealous about the way they work while you’re sitting in front of your screen the whole day. Be sure to check out transforma’s website and their vimeo channel as well as yro’s website, it’s really cool stuff.
Oh, shock! Swiss artist Dare was one of my absolute favourite writers since I started to be interested in streetart as a teenager. Sad news, Sigi von Koeding a.k.a. Dare died on March 6th of cancer being only 42 years old. Thanks Dare for bringing your style and inspriration in this world- nobody will forget you! Here is Dare´s favourite selection of 2009´s pieces over at his blog. Video and some more pics after the break, even more awesome stuff at Dare´s website.
For those (few) people who haven´t seen this awesome video yet: watch it! For those who have already seen it (several times): go read the Q&A session over at Gizmodo with OK Go talking about how they did this piece and their music videos in general. Pretty interesting stuff!
“Machines have an organic side, while plants have a mechanical side” is a quote by japanese artist Macoto Murayama and that´s exactly what his beautiful cg- illustrations of plants show. Having a workflow of examining plants on a microscopic level and then rebuilding the complex biological structures in cg seems to me to be the counterpart to algorithmically building biological structures in 3d, like Daniel White does with his mandelbulb. And that´s where we come back to Murayamas statement: It´s not only possible to find something mechanical in nature, you will also find biological structures in machines or in what machines are made of: math! More pics after the break.
In the last couple of weeks there have been great updates on some of the most advanced ICE Plugins out there. It’s fantastic to see some serious plugin development for Softimage happening. I hope this trend will continue to grow. Here we go:
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