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Project Nightfire almost live

roy — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:21:04 +0000

Phase 1 of Project Nightfire is almost live. It’s a little project we’ve been working on for the past month to see if we can combine art, technology, storytelling, illustration, 3d, and music on an incredible backdrop, the Vancouver Art Gallery. Check out http://projectnightfire.com for more details.

Hacking our way to FWA

roy — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:33:27 +0000

“The Lab” instantly dives the user into the world of underground government experiments. It’s an interactive music video that gets you the user to play the part of Resistance-hacker. The Resistance’s mandate is to stop the madness that has taken control of our society by brainwashing us with music that turn us into mindless, Gap buying, Starbucks sipping, creditcard killing zombies.

The project was a collaboration with our good friends at Swarm and DNR Films.

Here’s a little quite from Riz himself about the project:

“This was a crazy idea and I’m fortunate to have connected with people who believed in the concept enough to execute it beyond my best hopes,” says Ahmed. “Budget was a big challenge, but because the website grew with the show, and developed as a core part of the transmedia narrative – rather than being a marketing afterthought – we were able to conceive the site and the show in a way that maximized our limited resources and pre-existing assets across album, live show, and short film.”

Earlier this month, along side with Swarm, we were honored with an FWA award that was a welcome pat on the back for a small shop like us. We’ve won awards before, but this is the only one so far that means much to us. And this will hopefully the first of many awards.

I’ll leave you with some concept and final side by side comparison screens of The Lab.

Bio-rad gets Whimsy

roy — Tue, 25 May 2010 05:48:30 +0000

Earlier on this year we put together an video that told the story of Bio-rad’s history. The brief was to use a timeline to show the evolution of their products as a response to the needs of their customers.

Our first thought - it’s about time that the electrophoresis business saw a little more whimsy. To us, there isn’t any point in making people watch things they don’t want to watch. The folks at Bio-Rad, being the excellent clients that they are, agreed. The result was a successful exploration of design and storytelling. And it’s fun, too.

The original timeline concept request from the client took to new heights in revealing Bio-Rad’s achievements. If I were to push it a bit, I’d say it’s a classic retelling of the hero’s journey, except with a timeline pointer as the hero.

Proxipedia – Technical Animations

roy — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:43:27 +0000

Here are some sweet 3D animations made by proxonic for their medical and scientific animation project, “Proxipedia“.

This Neigbourhood Is Boring – An Emotional Experiment

roy — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:56:11 +0000

I just started up an album on Vimeo called “Emotional Experiments“. Neil was talking about starting one up and I’ve been itching to shoot and edit my own videos for a while. But as we all know, committing time to any self-motivated project can be tough to do sometimes.

It isn’t a masterpiece, but its an exercise on what I can shoot, edit, composite, color-correct and encode in about 4-5 hours. I didn’t use the steadycam, so the footage is pretty shaky. Shot on an HVX200 and used Final Cut, After Effects and Motion.

Check it out. I added a little surprise.

Cinema 4D Music and Motion Test

roy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:48:17 +0000

Here are a couple motion tests I did a while back using Maxon Cinema 4D. I’ve been using C4D whenever I need to dive into building anything that requires 3D rendering or animation. I love the program and it’s been fairly easy to pick up due to the fantastic GUI. The star of the show has got to be the stacking layer system, allowing users to easily add modifiers, shaders, properties, etc to objects and keep track of them through the intuitive tree view.

Count Leo Reimagined

roy — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:59:24 +0000

My wife and I decided we were going to check out the Harry Potter series (finally). We’ve just watching the first one and we’re planning to check out a couple more this weekend. But the reason we really started to get interested in it was because of the way the new Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince looks. It looks like a lot of fun and the series seems to have really matured into something very cool.

I was also inspired to create an updated image of the Rival Schools mascot, Count Leo. He really just started off as simple vector illustration, but I had envisioned a more realistic representation. I’m planning to create a whole roster of humanoid-animals with snooty dispositions. Download the wallpaper and iPhone poster here

Nice Type on Vimeo

roy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:39:47 +0000

Nice Type is a collection of videos on vimeo that was created by Matthew Buchanan. Great set of animations that range from title animations to student work.

That kid that no one wants to play with

roy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:32:26 +0000

That kid is of course, IE6. The extremely talented John Martz was asked to create this illustration that would show up for people using the annoying browser to access momentile.com. This really made my day and now I share my happiness with you all.

via robotjohnny.com

Live at Siggraph

roy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:39:01 +0000

Currently at the Vancity Theatre enjoying the intro part of the presentation. It’s the presentation for Watchmen Revealed brought by Siggraph. The just mentioned the OperaBot contest and how to enter. Great place to promote a contest geared towards animators of all types. Can’t wait for the panel to start!