Lovely

Mr Rogers — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:04:51 +0000

It is always interesting when you take a diversion from concentrating on "visual effects" and go see what other people are doing with graphics technology. In many ways, the SIGGRAPH conference is a yearly fix of all things interesting, but you have to stop working to get there, and residing outside of the US doesn't make it any easier. The alternative time-sucking solution, is web surfing. Sometimes you come across something which really gives you a jolt. The work Robert Hodgin does is clever and beautiful:

Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.

He uses Processing, an open-source programming environment for graphics and audio. See their exhibition space for more examples of what can be done. Robert Hodgin has a bit of his stuff on that page too, and great explanations of how the software was used (Birds/Flocking). I've become quite interested in procedural animation of late, and have been wondering what we can do with Massive (and a bit of time) to create some visualisations. We've done a bit of stuff on films using Massive to create things other than crowds (like traffic, pedestrians, etc); so another logical step would be to use it with some input data to drive different aspects of it... hmmm... music clip anyone? With the right input data, I am sure you could make something quite special.

Muxtape

Mr Rogers — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:29:53 +0000

I can’t remember where I saw the link to this… but it is a great way to share mix-tapes. Something to listen to when you are hard at work creating images: Muxtape. Created by photographer, Justin Ouellette or Chromogenic, who is in my flickr stream… maybe that’s where I saw it… it’s a small world… [...]

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