Here are some sweet 3D animations made by proxonic for their medical and scientific animation project, “Proxipedia“.
This Neigbourhood Is Boring – An Emotional Experiment
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.
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.
Magnetosphere in iTunes 8.0
Today, I have found something truely great in iTunes 8. No it’s not the ‘Genius’ feature or is it the new way to list your music. It is far more beautiful than all of that. It is the new iTunes Visualizer.
The moment I saw it, I was taken back to about a month ago. I was inside the Nob Hill Center at San Francisco for the FlashForward 2008 Conference. I remember watching same thing presented by one of the speakers. After a bit of digging, it all connects! Robert Hodgin of Flight 404 built this wicked visualizer called “Magnetosphere”. He had a great presentation at FlashForward that got the crowd really excited. And who can blame them? He presented his visualizer with one of his favorite tracks and it was a serious site. Well, my point is that if you’re into that kind of thing, you should it out in the latest iTunes. Turn the lights down and jack in your favorite beats.
Robert also built the following animation and submitted for a Radiohead music video competition at Aniboom. He didn’t win, but it would be a damn shame if more people didn’t see this.
Weird Fishes: Arpeggi from flight404 on Vimeo.


