OK Go has just released their newest video, and this one uses time-warp effects to great results. Discovery Magazine talks to them about their work, and gets some details on the sheer scale of the project.
“The fastest we go is 172,800x, compressing 24 hours of real time into a blazing 1/2 second. The slowest is 1/32x speed, stretching a mere 1/2 second of real time into a whopping 16 seconds. This gives us a fastest to slowest ratio of 5.5 million. If you like averages, the average speed up factor of the band dancing is 270x. In total we shot 18 hours of the band dancing and 192 hours of LA skyline timelapse – over a million frames of video – and compressed it all down to 4 minutes and 30 seconds! Oh and don’t forget, it’s one continuous camera shot.”
They Might Be Giants follows up the success of their “Meet The Elements” video with another great work called “What Is a Shooting Star?” While lacking some of the infographic flair of their previous effort, it has just as much science and catchy music as you’ve come to expect from TMBG.
I don’t really know what to say about this other than it’s a pretty neat use of persistance by four guys of “OK Go” to make a neat music video. If the name rings a bell, you may remember them from their previous “Treadmill” music video.
Gonzo, Beaker, Animal, and all your favorite Muppets make a smashing comeback return with the latest feature on YouTube, 1080p video support, in a rousing rendition of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. The video quality is amazing, and the video itself is quite entertaining.
See it after the break, but make sure to take it fullscreen in 1080p for the full effect.
John Mayer likes to stay on the forefront of technology, and what better way than to jump on the Augmented Reality gravy train? His latest single “Heartbreak Warfare” has a nice twist if you go to his website and hold the marker (printable from his website) up to your webcam.
The music video for “Heartbreak Warfare,” from the upcoming Battle Studies album, is now featured on John Mayer’s website.After the Flash player loads, viewers can activate their webcam and hold up a printed or mobile version of the Battle Studies icon to their webcam, which, if aligned correctly, will prompt the video to begin playing with you as an extra in the background.
Musical group “They Might Be Giants” has a new album ready and Boing Boing managed to get a sneak peek at the video for one song “Meet the Elements”. It’s a fun collection of infographics related to atomic compositions and properties, all synced to a catchy tune.
Boing Boing Video proudly debuts “Meet The Elements,” a new animated music video from They Might Be Giants. This animated, upbeat ode to the periodic table of elements and how they form our world, appears on the new TMBG kids’ album “Here Comes Science.” Video directed by Feel Good Anyway.
A new Music Video for Crystal Method’s “Drown in the Now” is up on Vimeo with fun use of anaglyphic stereoscopic 3D. Done by Scott Sindorf and Damijan Saccio of UVPhactory.com, it’s fun if you can find some red/cyan glasses laying around.
Just in case Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” has ever confused you, Jeannie Harrell has broken it down for you into an easy-to-understand flow-chart.
Gabe Askew’s “Two Weeks” fan video is gaining popularity, and he took the time to sit down with VRay.info and discuss not only how he made the video, but some personal insights into the VFX and Arch Viz industry.
I love working at Focus360 because of the great working environment, but the sad fact is clients simply don’t want to pay for great creative work, they are content with passable flyarounds. This has really drained me creatively and so early in this year I told myself, I have got to do something that is purely my own and is up to my standards.
Over at the StudioGPU blog, they’ve got some information about another interesting video to debut at IBC in September, a music video for the “Pansy Warrior Princess” site, shot almost entirely in Stereoscopic 3D by Sterling Youngman.
The entire PWP music video project will be CGI, except for Pansy and her band, (which will be shot on green screen using Silicon Imaging’s new 3D 2K camera system). The original plan called for rendering the CG with Brazil. However once Youngman committed to going stereoscopic, it was clear that lighting and rendering the CG under the time constraint of being ready for IBC, would not be feasible without a big studio budget for lighters, compositors and render farms. Enter MachStudio Pro.
The site has information on how Youngman pulled the project together including previz, greenscreen effects in stereo, and doing it all without any huge studio backing.
They Might Be Giants follows up the success of their “
I don’t really know what to say about this other than it’s a pretty neat use of persistance by four guys of 
Gonzo, Beaker, Animal, and all your favorite Muppets make a smashing comeback return with the latest feature on YouTube, 1080p video support, in a rousing rendition of Queen’s 
John Mayer likes to stay on the forefront of technology, and what better way than to jump on the Augmented Reality gravy train? His latest single “Heartbreak Warfare” has a nice twist if you go to his website and hold the marker (printable from his website) up to your webcam.
Musical group “They Might Be Giants” has a new album ready and Boing Boing managed to get a sneak peek at the video for one song “Meet the Elements”. It’s a fun collection of infographics related to atomic compositions and properties, all synced to a catchy tune.
A new Music Video for Crystal Method’s “Drown in the Now” is up on Vimeo with fun use of anaglyphic stereoscopic 3D. Done by Scott Sindorf and Damijan Saccio of UVPhactory.com, it’s fun if you can find some red/cyan glasses laying around.
Gabe Askew’s “Two Weeks” fan video
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