Friday, 1 June 2012

The World’s First Stereoscopic Reconstruction Of A Painting.

Jan Matejko, Battle of Grunwald - now in 3D. "67 unique characters, each rendered as three-dimensional models, come together to form a clear spatial composition. Depth and perspective appear "within arm’s reach", inviting the viewer into the canvas to experience it from a new perspective"

"The project posed a challenge to animators, who were required to meticulously interpret and recreate the 1878 original and find solutions to problems such as how to depict figures who were partially obscured by those next to them."

Anyone fancy a pint?

Monday, 14 May 2012

10,000ft Downhill On Mountain Bike

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! Another win for Red Bull marketing.

The PeteBox

Stay with this past the Pink Panther theme - this is all recording live and in one take. Very clever stuff, must be a right headache remembering where he's saved all those samples, and getting the timing right.

Reminds me of David Ford's State Of The Union - also using sample loops, recorded in one take (embedding requests denied unfortunately) and Go To Hell which looks even more complicated;

Simon's Cat, Meet Pub Dog

Fantastic little animation, via BBC3 and found on b3ta.com

Monday, 30 April 2012

Would 'The Voice' Mentors Have Turned Around For Themselves?

Probably not. Missed this part of the live show, fortunately. Caught the rest of it by accident.

Found on b3ta

Thursday, 26 April 2012

Welcome to the Anthropocene

Beautiful Maureen Love. And it starts in the UK too, for a change.

Found on Mashable

Monday, 26 March 2012

Perpetual Ocean

Beautiful. Watch it in HD.

"This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through Decmeber 2007. The visualization does not include a narration or annotations; the goal was to use ocean flow data to create a simple, visceral experience."

Find out more from Nasa here.