Posted: August 6th, 2011 | Author: michl | Filed under: blog | No Comments »
lots of work, lots of fun, lots of happy clients. we finished off MBFW Berlin SS12 and we did well. watch some of the results on the official Mercedes-Benz youtube channel here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MBFWBerlin
Fashions gonna be flashy 80ies and cool simple as well. crazy highlights like iris van herpen brought the typical variety of berlin fashionweek. we also shook hands with DJ Hell again – such a nice guy – who did an excellent and fitting mix for Patrick Mohr again this season.
already looking forward to next season in good old Berlin.
Posted: July 18th, 2011 | Author: michl | Filed under: blog | No Comments »
AV PLAYGROUND 2011
Water in plastic bags – enemy of the flies – heavy visual improvement by Mr. marküs triebl through live kinect input.
meeting nice people at the sakog – fantastic location in the middle of upper-nowhere. madmapper-modul8 firsthandtraining, arduino-tinker workshop, experimental vj-software and partey – all there together with inspiring people ( Eva and Gerry, nikita visuals, Armin, Robert, Tim, Decollage). thanks 4youreyes for this gathering.
LINK: AV Playground 2011 @ Sakog
VIDEO:
not to forget our first ever kinect-live visual-set. one of many many many more to come. yeah.
trimmelkamm we thank you
Posted: June 21st, 2011 | Author: michl | Filed under: blog | Tags: 2011, bungalow, concept, music, sonar, visuals | Comments Off
BAM!
offf + sonar = high quality information overload
2weeks barcelona = 2 years of inspiration
after the offf here`s a mash-up of our sonar 2011:
sonar by day:
besides the classic and famous acts and music there was also place for the experimental and new. gilles peterson, apparat, fourtet, zinc and then there was the sewing orchestra, openreel ensemble and the barcelona laptop orchestra. highly experimental soundscapes, patterns and rhythm.
as for the visual aspect – everything there was up to the artist – apparat had small but efficient installation on a dark stage, Global Communication played their set behind semi-transparent screens projected with fitting ambient-esque abstract forms. sonar by day just didn`t care about visuals.
inspiring people in this years business talks – meet the pro concept really makes sense for anybody related to music and creative business. for us it was the possibility to spread the network and work internationally. we made the experience that although barcelona brings such amazing motion-designers to life like bungalow (with whom we had the chance to have a little chat), physalia studio, dvein, etc… the club scene doesn’t really care that much about the visuals – some clubs just let some random dvd running through the night.
tine to change that!
sonar by night:
well kind of disappointing visually speaking. even though the sonar provided led walls spread trough the areas – it generally lacked a sense of being one idea. beside the custom made footage some artists like paul kalkbrenner (simple abstract 2d-3d animations matched the speed of the music / steamboat metaphor) mary anne hobbes (her, empty roads, empty areas, her, empty parking lots, and her again) or the amazing chris cunningham (i don`t need to explain i guess, i don`t think that i really can… let`s just say that he brought the triptych into the 21st century) the content consisted of 20 clips randomly mixed together, no matter what was going on on stage and a live mixed camera feed displaying the artists…
highly inspiring was also the visual setup of aphex twin, doing his typical face-montages live: a face-recognition software made some of the guests to aphex-twins who immediately started to interact with the projection.
it`s about the music
tendencies were clear: dub step is still a main influence, not only for the many uk-acts. further there were some french artists ranging from minimal to weird, local heroes from spain to japanese craziness, music from the 50ies (the Gasmask Killer) to experimental noise-like sound collages (sewing orchestra), people from 2 -72. anything goes – its all music and worth to hear it out.
xx
Posted: October 19th, 2010 | Author: michl | Filed under: experiments | Tags: After Effects, Animation, Cinema 4D, compositing, DOF, HDR, spline effector | No Comments »
a great way to learn is just playing around with new styles. see where it gets you by using cliches and bringing in you own perspective. thats kind of what happened here…
HDR – lighting, spline effector
DOF in After Effects
thanks to the greyscalegorilla for the inspiration and knowledge on this one.
Posted: September 12th, 2010 | Author: michl | Filed under: tips | Tags: After Effects, Animation, automatic, automation, link, Motion, Scripts, watermark, Workflow | No Comments »
One observation in my work with after effects is that you can achieve a lot by tweaking the knobs you have been given – but as soon as you are faced with the hell-hounds of mass-producing watermarks and idents with changing designer names, you really need to get a clever script doing the job for you. really, you don`t want to sit all night long and copy-paste the names from a list, which isn’t confirmed or somehow mixed up.
On my travels along that road i stumbled upon after effects scripts .This awesome site offers it all: from automatic color separation to using external files to fill in the names for you – everything scripted to command your AE the right way. You can try all the scripts for free, just make sure to pay the 20$ for corporate jobs. A small price to pay to make your life easier and just the right thing to do…
