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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Tag Archives: animation
Address is Approximate
Like Toy Story, but for graphic designers. Via Flowing Data.
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Tagged animation, google, stop motion, street view
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Lost Tribes of New York
Animated documentary by Andy and Carolyn London. Via Underwire.
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Tagged andy london, animation, carolyn london, londonsquared, new york city
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Interactive Video Object Manipulation
Looks like Adobe is cooking up some pretty cool tools for everyday video manipulation and animation… This demo illustrates our research to bring interactivity to video editing: Our system analyzes videos using computer vision techniques, enabling interactive annotation, browsing, and … Continue reading
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Tagged adobe, animation, image manipulation
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Magnetic Movie
Naturally, magnetic fields are invisible, but the scientists from Space Sciences Laboratory at NASA have made animated photographs to make them visible. To create this, they use 3D compositing along with sound-controlled CGI, that make the fields dance in an … Continue reading
Human Space Invaders
Via Architectradure.
Fantoche (2007)
Blu is refining his very own technique of wall animation, and with seemingly good results. (megunica) See also: blublu.org
Lines Horizontal (1962)
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Tagged animation, experimental, norman mclaren, pete seeger
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Lichtspiel Opus I (1921)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9vSRPN4jDk Walter Ruttmann (born December 28, 1887 in Frankfurt am Main; died July 15, 1941 in Berlin) was a German film director and along with Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling was an early German practitioner of experimental film. Ruttmann studied … Continue reading
The Hasher’s Delirium (1910)
Cohl’s animation style is rather surreal and also makes good use of the medium. The cartoons are not formally structured, but the images flow easily from one to another as objects melt into other shapes. For example, an elephant turns … Continue reading
Powers of Ten (1977)
Powers of Ten is a 1977 short documentary film written and directed by Charles Eames and his wife, Ray. The film depicts the relative scale of the Universe in factors of ten (see also logarithmic scale and order of magnitude). … Continue reading