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The 2009 CLIO Interactive Jury awarded Superfad a Gold CLIO Statue for Durex “Get it On” at the gala awards presentation in Las Vegas on May 13th. The spot was then awarded a Silver Clio for Animation at the TV/Cinema Awards the following evening. The Durex film, featuring three energetic condom balloon animals, was recognized for both its creativity and viral success. The CLIO Awards is the world’s most recognized global awards competition for advertising, design, and interactive. For nearly five decades, the CLIO Awards has maintained its original commitment to celebrate and reward creative excellence, honoring a powerful form of communication and its impact on modern culture. At the same time, the CLIO Awards remains focused on evolving with the industry in order to acknowledge the most current, breakthrough work. CLIO’s iconic statue is the most widely recognized and coveted symbol of the industry’s creative accomplishments[ READ MORE ]
Join the Autodesk Imagine Tour and discover how Autodesk® 2010 creative software can benefit television and film professionals as well as game developers. Today, television and film facilities as well as game studios are being asked to deliver more content than ever before, faster than ever before. And with growing audience expectations, it's crucial that the quality of this content be second to none. Fortunately, Autodesk offers industry-leading creative tools for film and television professionals and game developers[ READ MORE ]
Mekanism has been tapped by The One Club to create the promotional creative for 2009’s One Show Interactive awards. One Show Interactive takes place in New York City, May 7-8, and is the industry’s most prestigious awards competition celebrating the year’s best in digital media and web design. The promotional material is based on this year’s Bollywood theme and is a sequence of moving portraits, as a parade of characters takes their turn on screen in their rawest emotional states. Bright, solid-colored background focus attention on each cast member as they play their part in the mini drama. The edgy, interpretive storyline is an ideal representative for the type of creative work honored at the One Show Awards[ READ MORE ]
MakingOf is a behind-the-scenes Web portal, founded by Natalie Portman and Christine Aylward, that provides an intimate, fresh look into the process of creating entertainment by the insiders themselves. Our mission is to champion the art and craft of entertainment creation. We started MakingOf because we realized that so much of [ READ MORE ]
After the actors filmed in front of blank backgrounds, the SIN CITY effects team painstakingly brewed up the worlds they inhabit taken straight from Miller’s books. It began with Robert Rodriguez morphing Frank Miller’s books – frame by frame, entirely as is -- into animatic storyboards. He than started developing the film’s look in the early experimental footage – a look he would continue to adjust throughout production. The idea was always to blend the photo-realistic with the graphic, but the trick was in finding the balance. By finessing the lighting and photography, Rodriguez played with variations on silhouette[ READ MORE ]
Green Screen footage with final footage from the Blu-ray edition Sin City DVD. "Sin City" is four stories inter-weaved telling tales of corruption in Basin City. The first story (The Customer is always right) is short, and is based on the depression of women that they need to pay a man to feel loved when they commit suicide. The next story is Part 1 of "That Yellow Bastard" about a cop who needs to save a young girl from being raped. The third story[ READ MORE ]
Alain Bielik gets amped up with Crank: High Voltage VFX Supervisor James McQuaide to talk about the work Duran Duboi and LOOK Effects contributed to the film. At the end of Crank (2006), professional assassin Chev Chelios took a deadly fall from a helicopter hovering high above Los Angeles. Miraculously, he survived. In Crank: [ READ MORE ]
George was raised in primarily New York city and currently reside there now. He has shot a multitude of commercials, music videos, promotional and corporate videos for some top leading clients. George’s experience with shooting and editing 4K, 2K, HD, and SD is quite useful when meeting the needs of his clients. He [ READ MORE ]
Broquard Studio was called in to help Digital Kitchen with a slick and exciting new rebranding of HBO’s premiere boxing franchises. The creative studio helped execute punched up show packages for HBO’s Boxing After Dark, World Championship Boxing and Pay-Per-View. With a triple-punch combo of shows to develop creative for, NYC based boutique Broquard Studio needed to bring all of it’s expertise in 2D/3D design, animation and compositing to the project. [ READ MORE ]
Dimension 3 the world’s leading festival for professionals involved in 3D stereoscopic production, post and display, will take place in Paris, France, from 2 – 4 June 2009. Now in its third year, Dimension 3 will again be the crucial meeting-point for performers, technical and business professionals who create 3D stereo content [ READ MORE ]
Autodesk, Inc., has announced Autodesk Softimage Mod Tool 7.5 software (formerly SOFTIMAGE_XSI Mod Tool). This free* 3D modeling and animation package for aspiring game artists is based on the same professional toolset as Autodesk Softimage (formerly SOFTIMAGE_XSI). Game studios have used Softimage software to create hit titles such as “Metal Gear Solid 4″ and “Fable II.”[ READ MORE ]