Animusic Universe

Is this a new form of Art or is it just entertainment? You decide...

The guys at Animusic call themselves "content creation company focused exclusively on computer animation of music." When I saw their music clip on PBS, it made me stop and look again, my brain trying to comprehend what I was seeing. At first I thought it was a clever musical instrument, then I noticed all the arms and little hooks and finally the full picture emerged. I instantly thought of abstract Art and Picasso. See for yourself.

Resonant Chamber




Pipe Dream




Aqua Harp




Harmonic Voltage




Frets on fire



You can literally see the music. Every instrument can be tracked down to an animation, and as the ear hears a new sound enter the scene, the curious eye searches for the corresponding motion.

The creative world around us is transformed by the unlimited visualization power of the digital media. When does an animation become something significant enough to be called Art?

Piperoid - Made in Japan

Ooohh, it's almost end of November, and this is my first post this month! That's because I've been super busy at college. It was end of the semester, and every assignment was due within a 2-week period. But now it's all done done! *:-)

Now that I have more time, there are many posts to come with all the Billy Blue assignments and other things I've made. Here is a cool idea of "toys for adults". A way to nurture and develop that creative energy that lives withing us all. It's called PIPEROID... what will the Japanese come up with next.

From http://piperoid.jp/en/:

Please Remember the Excitement
Do you still remember how excited you were to make handicrafts when you were a child? The process to create things with one’s own hands is always thrilling. Why don’t we, adults, enjoy such a sense of excitement, too? Piperoid has been launched in the hope to stimulate adults’creative minds and open the door to familiarity with handicrafts.

Piperoid is creative handicrafts produced in Japan, which transforms into a robot by assembling paper pipes. It is possible to show a wide range of expressions through little pose adjustments due to its movable joints made of minimal material, paper pipes.

Awesome!

Nokia Morph Concept

Today we learned how to do concept rendering using Copic markers, black pen and white gouache. We produced a rendering of a metal fork with small fish on it. It turns out that it's actually not that difficult to achieve a realistic look of an object, if you know where to apply shadows and highlights. The main points to remember are to work in layers, from light to dark.

One of the brilliant recent applications of concept rendering was used by Nokia to communicate the idea behind Nokia Morph, the future of mobile (at least according to Nokia, lol). Here is the video of the rendering:



One thing to notice is that the phone itself is drawn in great detail, while the surrounding environment is more rough. This brings attention and focus to the phone itself (note to self: you can use it in your work as well).