Visual Effects

(Photo by: Dara Scully, EK Flickr Pool Submission) Welcome, ladies n’ gentlemen, lads n’ lasses… gems n’ germs. The EMPTY KINGDOM Top 100 Artist of 2011 is here!
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Current students of Rochester Institute of Technology, Ayaka Ito and Randall Church’s project ‘Cinema Flash Showdown’ creates a series of digital shredded lines. By using HDRI sphere lighting & 3D flash applications they blend their photographic background to achieve the organic finish.
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A messenger delivers an unknown mechanical box in The Gift. An intensely strange and slightly mysterious short by Big Lazy Robot VFX.
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Andy Gilmore (Rochester, NY) is a new media artist that has a detailed range of abstract design work. On his personal blog/website he’s putting up visually retrospective pieces every few days. When you look at his website as a whole, you’ll be amazed with the hundreds of work he’s pumped out within several years.
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Zelig Sounds is a Sound Studio located out of London, UK. They we’re contacted to do sound work and fill out a moving conceptual piece. When finished, the video rendered out engaging concepts with such organic sound designs and score. Zelig and the whole production team ended up creating beauty in poetry through sound...
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‘The Oracle’ is created by Berlin based firm, MongrelNation. A series of corporate key-visuals for the new website of Fork Unstable Media, a digital agency based in Hamburg, Germany. MongrelNation is a practice for imagery and art direction run by Swiss-Japanese Maiko Gubler.
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(photo credit: Marc West) Hello beautiful people! Last year our impromptu Top 100 mega-post spread like wildfire on the internet, causing both acclamation and controversy (although none of the artists we selected seemed to argue with us)  …so you better believe we’re gearing up for another mega-post featuring our top one hundred favorite artists...
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Artist group Apparati Effimeri are specialists in 3D visual projection. A beautifully engrossing sight as seen in their latest 2011 project Mapping on Trees.
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Brand new music video for ‘Nap on the Bow’ by New Look. I must say there isn’t much music videos like this one. 3D pixelated environments, while the duo’s depiction is rendered by visual sound waves. Nowness premiered the official video earlier today. Imagine the experience of watching the video on ‘guess‘?
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Based out of Lyon, France, Me and Edward presents a series still in progress, but nonetheless very cool, entitled Metamorphosis. “Metamorphosis is a concept about the unlimited transformations of human body. Just like a chameleon, it’s fitting, just like a virus, it’s mutating, just like a personality, it’s changing. Something new is about to...
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“Find what you love.” -Steve Jobs
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Stefan Da Costa Gomez combines the traditional medium of painting with 3D technology and must be viewed with 3D glasses to enjoy.  Since I don’t have any, (and they wouldn’t fit my bunny head anyways) -I just banged my head against my cage until the paintings started to work without glasses.  This method of...
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Philippe Baylaucq‘s 2011 experimental short ORA utilizes no lighting whatsoever. Instead, the filmmaker applies 3D thermal imaging to capture his story.
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Previously featured by Konahrtist, Oh Yeah studios got the right ideas going.   They also have a nice selection of prints available. What I like about their work is that it always works for their client while retaining their distinct sense of style.
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Alex Mcleod’s “Distant Lands” creates an alternative world with candy like bugs, smiling blue skies, sweetly scented trees, marbled clouds and with a colorful uppity atmosphere. This Utopian like world is premiering at Toronto’s very own, Angell Gallery till September 24th, 2011. The catch is that his world is in unbelievable hyper 3d!
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Check out Arcade Fire’s new interactive video, directed by Chris Milk.  It won some sort of cyber Grand Prix or something at Cannes.   Check it out: thewildernessdowntown.com
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It has been an great year for the talented people at Digital Kitchen and this is their 2011 show reel.
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Resonance showcases 12-20 second pieces of visual and aural stimuli, enjoy.
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