Illness is a variation on motion sickness which is caused by gadgetsDisplays are now so good at mimicking reality they disorientate the brainProblem will only get worse as tech gets better, experts say
"As an artist, I try to take inspiration from the world around me. I’m always inspired by how far we can push artistic talent and technology, and combine them together. Seeing how far we can go with the realism of characters in 3D is hugely inspiring to me."
httpv://youtu.be/7ebut9yyy54 Today marks the 77th anniversary of Jim Henson's birth. To celebrate the puppeteer, filmmaker, and Muppet inventor's life and.
"Today marks the 77th anniversary of Jim Henson’s birth. To celebrate the puppeteer, filmmaker, and Muppet inventor’s life and career, we offer here three of his early short works."
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Just as Netflix has done in the past with Arrested Development and Orange is the New Black, Machinima released its entire 10-episode second season of the Mortal Kombat: Legacy YouTube series all at...
Just as Netflix has done in the past with Arrested Development and Orange is the New Black, Machinima released its entire 10-episode second season of the Mortal Kombat: Legacy YouTube series all at once today. The first season of the Warner Bros.-produced series has racked up more than 70 million views and, as reported by GigaOm, Machinima has high hopes for the follow-up .
Cartoon d'or award for best short film animation euronews Short film “Head Over Heels” has won the Cartoon d'or award at the Cartoon Forum in the southern French city of Toulouse.
A graduate film by British director Timothy Reckart, it tells the story of a husband and wife separated by gravity and who live upside down from each other.
A poignant and moving film, “Head Over Heels” has already collected more than 30 awards at festivals around the world.
Motion-Tracking Cartoon Creator Inserts Fans Into Comics [Video] PSFK To those manga devotees out there, how would you like to be the star of your own comic?
To those manga devotees out there, how would you like to be the star of your own comic? Developed byAkihiko Shirai and his team at Kanagawaya Institute of Technology, Japan, the Manga Generator uses Kinect sensors to position you directly into a comic panel in real time, with added backgrounds, props, speech bubbles and sound effects.
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) project has completed the longest duration test for a Space propulsion system (48,000 hours/5 1/2 years). This look inside the thrusters discharge chamber shows how it works.
Cloud Chamber is an online mystery, a next generation altered reality game. We’ve done three of them before, and they were all campaigns, however Cloud Chamber is permanent and you explore it in your own time. The basic idea is that once you’re in the website, it’s kind of like a 3-D. It is an immense database for fictional film clips, confidential files, and Wikileaks documentary fragments, which you’re piecing together. The story revolves around three young people, one is a young astrophysicist, Kathleen, who betrays her father and risks insanity in order to explore what might be a signal from another world. You, the player, are exploring found footage left behind by the characters; their documents, films, emails, scientific journals while at the same time you are discovering what happened to them.
Jen Begeal: "Cloud Chamber, an online, interactive mystery, will open this year’s New York Film Festival Convergence program. In this interview I speak with creator, Christian Fonnesbech who explains the process of getting a large scale project off the ground, his thoughts on the festival and why Convergence may be the next big venue for interactive storytellers" ...
3D printer duplicates paintings down to the last brush stroke (video) Engadget We've seen 3D printers produce some pretty amazing things, but nothing quite like this.
Tim Zaman, a Dutch researcher, has reportedly developed a 3D duplication technique capable of capturing incredible detail, such as brush strokes and other textures on a painting.
The worst thing a concept car can be is boring. In that sense, Mitsubishi's 1991 concept car, the mS 1000, is an absolute success. To most people, I suspect it comes off as ridiculous, and that's hard to argue.
In this tutorial, I will be explaining you how to create some extruded stroke effects only using After Effects. This effect can be used effectively on any logo.
"In this tutorial, I will be explaining you how to create some extruded stroke effects only using After Effects. This effect can be used effectively on any logo. You will have the freedom to choose between the extruded layers, animated strokes, and flat layers. Additionally, I will show you how to fake the flare effect to give more depth to the result."
Animated Film In America Is Still A Genre, Not Yet A Medium Forbes I took some heat last month for discussing the glut of mid-summer animated features in terms of their box office under the sub-headline “too much animation”.
The 25 Worst Movie Covers on Netflix Vanity Fair My mother used to say, “Never judge a book by its cover, but always judge a Netflix movie by its thumbnail.” Keeping that advice in mind, I combed through thousands of movies streaming on Netflix as...
Twenty-five movie covers that raise the question: “How did anyone possibly star and direct in me?” Giving thousands of Netflix customers no other choice than to pity-stream it and find out. And now, I’d like to share those titles with you in this handy list: The 25 Worst Movie Covers on Netflix.
Some people go down in history specifically because they didn't have that problem -- they used their wits to slam entire armies, usually while lots of guns were pointed at parts of their body that shouldn't have guns pointed at them.
Their brash words long outlived them, and rightfully so.
Seven steps to the perfect story is a great visual representation of how to build a story. This clearly explains the process of how students can construct their narrative and the types of characters they will use. I would definitely use this in my classroom to help students understand the process of creating a narrative.
Intel's futurist introduces open source, 3D printed robot at Maker Faire Gizmag Intel's Futurist and Director of Future Casting, Brian David Johnson, was at this week's Maker Faire in New York City to introduce an open source, 3D printed companion...
The target for such a kit is highly focused, as only rather accomplished makers will have the 3D printing capabilities at hand, and also the electromechanical and software chops to turn a kit into a working robot to be upgraded, modified, and taught new tricks. Johnson wants to make the kit available for US$500-1000.
Structure is a relatively small aluminum device that clips on to an iPad. The device carries two infrared LEDs and a camera onboard, and further makes use of the iPad’s native camera, gyro, and accelerometer. It synthesizes all this data to model and measure its surroundings in 3D with a range of 40 cm to 3.5 meters.
Double British win at Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival Screen International The Best Of British animation award went to Anomalies by Ben Cady, with the live action award going to Rosemary Jane, directed by Carolina Petro.
British filmmakers Jamie Stone and Felix Massie have taken the top awards at Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, making it the first double British win at the festival.
China's richest man plans to build world's biggest movie studio Los Angeles Times Wang, 58, the son of a Red Army veteran, is the billionaire owner of Dalian Wanda Group Corp., which last year acquired movie theater chain AMC Entertainment Inc.
Showcasing the power of Chinese money in Hollywood, Wang paid several celebrities to travel to the event, includingJohn Travolta, Nicole Kidman and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
From the streets of Mexico City comes Spacepainting, a spray can painting technique that enables the artist to quickly create beautiful space paintings and planetscapes within minutes.
Watch this video and after that have a visit to Jim Hurst website where you can get a lot of tips and inspiration.
Once again the year is passing swiftly, already we are drawing close to saying goodbye to September and, for those of us in the northern hemisphere, the last of the summer. Now October is peeking o...
To mark the arrival of Halloween, Stories Unlimited and Branwen Arts will once again be hosting Boofest! and Boostock, and are issuing a call for performers.
October brings with it the first taste of winter and, as the nights draw in around us and as it also goes old, that time when pumpkins are prepared, and children take to the streets in all manner of spooky and bizarre costumes, earnestly asking for trick or treat; when bonfires are lit, games are played, and ghostly tales are told.
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