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Presented in alphabetical order, the following are 10 moviemakers who made career breakthroughs at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, as nominated by our little team of stalwart movie-watchers. 
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Artist Charles Bergquist whisks us to his psychedelic summerland with "It Is Dark..." (Afternoon Animation: Escape this cold Thursday on a pillow of rainbow clouds by @cbergquist: http://t.co/qj9ohlzmPi...
Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's insight:
I find this very inspiring. "Per reader request, today we bring you the lushly evocative work of San Diego based artist Charles Bergquist. Above, Berquist takes us on psychadelic journey full of pop art images, fire breathing models, and technicolor dreamscapes." Click to watch the video.
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Turn Your Script Into A Storyboard Take Amazon Storyteller for a test run. Use your own script or find one on Amazon Studios and turn it into a storyboard for free. Amazon Storyteller has an expansive library of characters, backgrounds and props.
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The last time we saw Sixense's Stem motion controller, it was little more than a collection of prototypes. The company showed us a gaggle of plexiglass Via Nicko Gibson
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Sixense sells the program as an evolution in 3D modeling interfaces, a chance to step back from the complicated, menu-laden CAD programs modelers use today and replace them with a more natural interface. Click to watch.
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CGI Animated Trailer - Endless Space First Trailer from the Sci-Fi Fantasy Movie Endless Space.
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Brilliant work in iClone - CGI Animated Trailer - Endless Space
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Based on the novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, this movie is really about the dispensationalist interpretation of the "End of Days." You see, all modern-day believers are raptured, leaving this world a mess.
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Left Behind the book series (and Kirk Cameron relevance generator) is getting a full-blown feature film (sans Kirk Cameron). Instead, it features Nic Cage as the pilot whose wife leaves him for Jesus, and here is your first clip. Click to watch it.
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Pink Floyd had to find its way again after founding singer Syd Barrett had a mental breakdown and left the band in 1968.
Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's insight:
Musically, it’s a tremendously accomplished piece of work, lush and expansive but curiously restrained. The centerpiece, “Have a Cigar”— surely a precursor of bitter showbiz rant disguised as double concept album, The Wall—is in fact sung by a ringer, Roy Harper. (The only other time the band featured a guest vocalist was on the soaring, wordless “Great Gig in the Sky” from the previous album, Dark Side of the Moon.) Click to watch videos and read more.
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In William Gibson's Neuromancer, the mercenary Molly Millions has a lot of enhancements -- including retractable razor blades beneath her fingernails. These 3D printed nails from The Laser Girls are how I imagine Molly's ...
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Now you too can look like Molly, and have fierce, textured nails that belong on a cyborg. Click to see more.
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Sean Flynn: "Will any of these experiments in storytelling become the dominant forms of tomorrow? Or are they merely timely novelties whose relevance is tied up with the technologies that enable them?" Via The Digital Rocking Chair
Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's insight:
A festival still steeped in the established art of cinema, the question inevitably arises: Will any of these experiments in storytelling transcend the category of “first word art” and become the dominant forms of tomorrow? Or are they merely timely novelties whose relevance is tied up with the technologies that enable them? Click to watch videos and read more.
The Digital Rocking Chair's curator insight,
January 30, 2014 12:41 PM
Sean Flynn: "Will any of these experiments in storytelling become the dominant forms of tomorrow? Or are they merely timely novelties whose relevance is tied up with the technologies that enable them?"
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Honda Releases Concept Model Data For 3D Printing, Including New Acura NSX
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The Japanese automaker is making data from old concept models available so people can print them out at home. Click to read more.
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Midnight movies. Guilty pleasures. Cult classics. We have lots of terms for films that are so bad, they're good. But why do we really love terrible films, sometimes more than good movies? And why aren't all bad movies wonderfully bad? Click to read more.
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Three keys to thinking like a creative genius. Maria Konnikova, a world-reknown Harvard psychologist and writer, explores what it takes to have a mind capable of matching the fictional detective/genius Sherlock Holmes Via Nicko Gibson
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As it turns out: you don’t have to be remarkably intelligent to be creative, you just have to know how to use the intellect you’ve got to produce ideas. Specifically, there are three ways to see this process through. Click to read more.
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After an amazing illustrations' project, Belgian artist Ben Heine is back with a perception game in 3D produced only with a pencil and a big blank sheet. Click to watch more.
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How the Future of War (and Flying) Could Be Swarms of 3D-Printed Drones
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In war, nobody—least of all the U.S.—wants to be the kid who still uses a Discman when everyone else has iPods. Click to read more.
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Virtual Reality: All you need to know about Input Devices for the bright new ... Via Sandys VR, Ramprasad Rangarajan, Dulcie Mills
Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's insight:
Use head movement to control an external object
A straightforward way to use only the rift for controlling your game is to control the position of an object via head movement. A good example for this method is the Breakout - inspired “Proton Pulse” by Pushy Pixels which lets you control a paddle’s x and y position with your head movement.
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Sandys VR's curator insight,
November 4, 2013 12:42 PM
Very well written, fun article about different input devices that can be used with the Oculus for more immersion of computer games. Or other applications, of course. The guys who wrote this did a really good job in giving you an overview over different devices and how to operate them, pros and cons etc. I wouldn't use Unity though ;) but besides that, it's definitely worth reading. 
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January 28, 2014 2:02 AM
Virtual Reality - the world inside the computer, an unreal world which doesn't exist! A world which exists nowhere except in your computer, your X-Box or perhaps, just inside your own head ...We are already living in a Cosmic three-dimensional holograph of light, sound and colour. Everything in this three-D plane of existence called Earth is unreal. We are already dreaming. Do we really want to lose ourselves in the illusion of Virtual Reality - I vote No. Coping with Life on Earth is hard enough as it is without getting lost inside Virtual Reality as well. But that's just me. There are those out there who love the idea and if you are one of those who are all for it ... dig in and read this article!!
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It's been over 50 years since Marvel effectively began the Silver Age of comics, and while the company has had its ups and downs, their output cannot be denied: Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, the Avengers — their contributions to pop culture...
Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's insight:
It's been over 50 years since Marvel effectively began the Silver Age of comics, and while the company has had its ups and downs, their output cannot be denied: Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, the Avengers — their contributions to pop culture have been enormous. But not every comic Marvel published was a masterpiece — in fact, some aren't even good. And some are so bad that Marvel would like to pretend never existed at all. Here are 10 of them. Click.
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There's a rumor that Pixar is going to develop a Star Wars movie. Whether or not you believe it's for real, we've got some killer pitches that they should check out...
Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's insight:
There’s a completely unsubstantiated rumor floating around that suggests Pixar might be taking on some form of Star Wars movie. Why not, right? Disney’s hefty portfolio of subsidiaries includes both Lucasfilm and Pixar, both of which are known for delivering family-friendly products. Star Wars is a proven success in animated formats (see also: both Star Wars: Clone Wars series’), and anyone who’s ever seen a Pixar movie knows that the people there are well-versed in pop culture.
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There have been many, many movie versions of the Frankenstein Monster, owing of course to the fact that Mary Shelley’s original 1818 novel is in the public domain. In other words, anyone and everyone can make a Frankenstein movie if they want to. And pretty much anyone and everyone has. Click to read more and watch video.
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In which MovieMaker correspondent Jeff Meyers catches some hitRECord samplings, a Norwegian psychological thriller, and (what else?) parties parties parties at Sundance 2014. (More of my #Sundance2014 festival diary.
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Saturday, January 18th gets off to a slow start. Last night’s midnight movie takes its toll and I decide to abandon the 8:30am showing of Camp X-Ray, starring Kristen Stewart. The choice may have been a good one: Word from critics and random fest goers is decidedly mixed (though Stewart’s performance is said to be solid). Click to read more.
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Samsung's Galaxy S5, the next generation of its flagship smartphone, will be released by April and may include innovative eye-scanning technology.
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(CNN) -- Samsung's Galaxy S5, the next generation of its flagship smartphone, will be released by April and may include innovative eye-scanning technology. Click to read all about it.
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This passport is very cool. (Yet another Finnovation: New Finnish passport has flip book animation as a security feature. Play never stops!
Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's insight:
You have to see the Animation Passport. :-)
The Finnish passport is officially my favorite one in the world. Why, might you ask? Simple, when’s the last time my passport did anything even slightly entertaining for me?
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50 Free Animation Tools And Resources For Digital Learners (50 Animation Tools And Resources For Digital Learners via @TeachThought
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That is education and animation working together to teach students everywhere, everything they ever wanted to know. Educators need only utilize the tools available, most of them for free. Some of the animation links catalogued here will give educators very basic tools and histories of animation while others have the animation already created and set in motion, it’s just a matter of sharing it with students.
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Giotto is the free Flash animation package made for you to design, not to code. With Giotto you can ...
Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's insight:
Giotto is the free Flash animation package made for you to design, not to code. With Giotto you can relax and focus your imagination on creative concepts, integrating stunning graphics and music into masterpieces of design. Create complex vector illustrations in Giotto, anything from simple shapes to custom ones like polygon, star, or rounded rectangle. Transform vector objects in any imaginable way. Use bitmap filters like blur, drop shadow, glow, and all blend modes. Organize all objects in the Library, create symbols like Movie Clips and Buttons for multiple use. Add text fields, with font kerning and paragraph alignment. Animate objects with motion tweens and shape tweens. Add sound to movies and create advanced interactivity.
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"These names represent, for us—induced by the festival’s chaos into a heightened subjectivity, not to mention the inevitable lacunae amongst our coverage (none of us saw Imperial Dreams, for example)—the happiest discoveries to be made in the trenches of Park City. Some notes: age-wise, we’ve run the gamut from 15-years-old to 71; the most commonplace role is the female writer-director (which can only be a good thing); and we didn’t see enough documentaries to accurately nominate anyone from that end of the equation (no excuses there; we’ll do better next year)."
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