VFXWorld on the stylized world of 300.
“Oscar-winning vfx supervisor Rob Legato (Titanic), currently spearheading the virtual cinematography system and pipeline on James Cameron’s all-CG/3-D Avatar, says the film expands the palette of filmmaking. “It’s not photoreal or cartoon or CG totally; it’s sort of a hybrid in between so it becomes a stylization that might [...]
Archive for May, 2007
300 expands filmmaking palette
Under Control
Control, a film about Ian Curtis and Joy Division, by Anton Corbijn. Uncompromisingly arthouse. Another photographer/MV director transitioning to features in a sensitive/successful manner.
HALlo from The Strokes
You Only Live Once by The Strokes is a wonderful homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey. It feeds The Strokes retro image, but in an unobvious manner. Amazing production design and screen graphics on show elevates this video from the usual 2001 emulators. (Nice job, director Warren Fu!)
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Oddly angled short
Odd from Every Angle is a refreshing student work from Russell Etheridge featuring varied and smooth integration of a range of animated effects. Carves out it’s own world quickly - doesn’t appear to slavishly follow animated fashions.
Last.fm moving into music video
ReadWriteWeb reports: Last.fm Launches Video - Aims To Be The MTV Of Web 2.0 Age Last.fm have a great history of supporting interesting and alternate music. MTV shared this quirkiness from their anarchic beginnings (current MTV is a different beast - it’s idiotic to compare). If the Last.fm can convert that sensibility by aggregating the [...]
Perfect fit for Cornelius
I ran out of time so didn’t manage to get Koichiro Tsujikawa into the Reinventing Music Video book. If I ever find time to do a follow-up then he’ll be at the head of the list, as the work just keeps getting better and better. Especially his collaborations with Cornelius. All good MV directors need [...]
Oberhausen music video awards
Back from Oberhausen Int’l Short film festival, where I had a great time on the jury to decide winners for the music video awards. Although they showed an international selection, the awards were for German-qualifying videos only. We were very pleased with our prizewinners, the festival had a great atmosphere, and it’s run by some [...]
Satoshi Kon adds spice
Paprika, by animé master, Satoshi Kon. Adventuring into people’s dreams. Oneiric Japanese animation.
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