today and tomorrow

E99500 is an orange color in hexadecimal color codes, but it’s also the title of this video by Hugo Arcier, a French director and 3D artist. He also has another portfolio with some very weird 3D work.

Mister Furry is one of the 6 new TV idents created by Universal Everything for MTV’s international brand refresh. You can read more about the whole project at the Creative Review blog.

“The Animatic” is a Rube Goldman machine developed by Yuri Suzuki and Household. It is actually a three-dimensional music video. A record player triggers a chain of small individual animating machines. These are all based on simple animation techniques from flick books to shadow puppets. The viewer follows a chain of machines to piece together a narrative. By the time the viewer reaches the end of the song they will have seen in essence a music video for the chosen record, which in this instance is “Memphis Tennessee”, a Silicon Teens cover of the classic track by Chuck Berry.

Lately I’m really into these video projections on 3D objects and buildings. I always wondered how they do that, how they match the projected animations with the objects. Last November there was a workshop for the students of Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd how to do this with vvvv, a toolkit for real time video synthesis. The students got quite a headstart because they had a scale model of the building and digital 3D models to start with. The position of the spectator is of course quite important to obtain the desired visual effect. If you want to try it out yourself, then you might want to read this guide on the vvvv website: How To Project On 3D Geometry. You can see the results of the workshop here, unfortunately they only used the scale model to show the final animations.

found @mariuswatz

Sandra Backlund is a Swedish fashion designer who creates amazing handmade knitwear pieces. She now had the chance to work together with Maglificio Miles, a historical Italian knitwear company. Here are 2 form the 4 samples which are almost completely machine made.
You can read an interview with Sandra Backlund at Dazed Digital.

found at Cyana.Trend.Land

David Oreilly made these stage visuals for Bang by M.I.A, in the end she didn’t use them for her Coachella gig. Do what the sound say!

found at videos.antville

The girls of Front digitised a Royal Delft vase and added some parameters to the material in the 3D software. It was then exposed to a simulated gust of wind. This is really a typical Front project.
The Blow Away vase is available from Moooi.

At the end of last year, MINI had this print ad where you could see the new MINI Cabrio in 3D on top of that ad. BMW now released a more interactive augmented reality tool for its current “An Expression of Joy” campaign for the Z4. In the normal TV ad, the artist Robin Rhode uses the BMW Z4 as a paintbrush. With this augmented reality software you can now create your own virtual version on your desk. When you’re happy with the result you can submit your piece to a gallery on Facebook.
Unfortunately the MINI and BMW tools are Windows only, so I can’t try them out myself. But you can download the BMW software here. I guess I’ll have to believe that everything works as smooth as advertised in those demo videos.

The normal TV ad.

found at Fubiz

This teddy bear called Kuma is not the kind you would give to a child. It is made of paper and was designed by the Japanese architect Ryuji Nakamura. The visual effect is really nice.

found at designboom weblog

I always find it fascinating when someone can fold a sheet of paper into a rigid 3D structure. This video is a compilation of some experiments by Daniel Piker. Great stuff!

If you want to try it yourself, then these patterns may help you.