Myspace y Facebook dominan el mundo…

…pero solo el de oeste. Otros paises tienen otras plataformas de Social Networking. Le Monde hizo un mapa muy interesante.

Must have for all MotionGrapher

The DV Rebel’s Guide is a comprehensive guidebook to planning, shooting, and finishing your own digital movie. It is also focused on AfterEffects including a DVD with a lot of great stuff and Presets. If you´re a motion graphics designer and also thinking about to make a low budget action movie, this is the book you must have!

done with…

No “Pages” – No necesitamos PÁGINAS web

Ya hemos evolucionado hasta un punto donde no necesitamos PÁGINAS en una presentación web. Lo que necesitamos en cada presentación es el contenido en cual el usuario nevega al respecto con su interés intuitivamente y no porque se ha acostumbrado a tener unas palabras colocadas en u sitio donde pone HOME | PRODUCTOS | QUIENES SOMOS | CONTACTO.

Interest-Centric Content es lo que hay que diseñar y no sequencias de páginas y como está en http creemos que es hyper-textual por sí pero pinchar solo en los botones de una navegación es la forma antigua de llevar el usuario. No sabemos cómo vamos a navegar en el futuro pero hasta que nevegemos como en Minority Report tenemos que abandonar la forma de navegación que aún existe y además todavía se trata como estandard.

Con Interest-Centric Content (ICC) no me refiero a diseñar todo en Flash, centrarlo y ponerlo fullscreen. La forma ICC de ofrecer el contenido afecta en primer lugar la arquitectura/estructura del contenido y claro, despues habrá que diseñarlo adecuado. Navegar por el contenido y no porque hay una navegación.

PinkFragrance

TypoRaum

Great, but why 3D? Oh, please don´t worry. Won´t be an attack against the 3D style. It´s made by me and I´m very self-critical and always analyzing the use of the tools I´m working with.

Well third dimension means for me time. Through the movement of 2d planes we get third dimension and movement happens only within time. The next thing is that time means change. The picture above is only a frame which also means a momentum. I made the scene with dynamics and stopped it while falling. So it is a moment capture. The congress will be about how the room and time (for me at the same “time” it means the society) influences the typography which is arround us – or are we arround it? Inside-Outside. If I am the sum of influences what is then outside of me?

Well, maybe too brain-fucking stuff. Sorry! Just enjoy the image if you like it without thinking about.

hobnox community – I´m on-line

Guys! If you´re creative, artist, musician or even only interested in how the future of rich internet applications will be: forget everything you have seen before. I you don´t know hobnox.com you´re probably still working with Flash 4 and animating your stuff on the timeline (which is maybe fine for you and your mother will love it for sure). But please visit hobnox. And especially their Audiotool – it´s definitely mind blowing!

Problemas con la red

Here we go – FlashPlayer 10

Adobe Flash Player 10, code-name “Astro” just arrived. It is a beta version, but “introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences.” like Adobe says.

The key-features are:

• 3D Effects
• Custom Filters and Effects
• Advanced Text Layout
• Enhanced Drawing API
• Visual Performance Improvements

You can see some demonstrations of the key-features here and it´s also worth to visit the Flash Player 10 forum were you´ll find the latest topics about the new possibilities and also buggs.

Hightech non-hyper-realism

Is there anybody who´s not bored of all the 3d stuff reproducing things that already exists in our real world? Imagine a guy standing in front of an impressive building with his notebook (of course I mean an Apple product) were he has opened a file with the same building made in 3d. Where the f… is the funny part seeing the same building reproduced in 3d?

Ok ok, I think the idea is clear now. But there is a sense of using 3d – for sure. For things which until now don´t exist, things which maybe will exist in the future and things that never will exist. 3d for stimulating our phantasy. That´s the reason. Not for showing us the same thing once again. And sure for animation. But not for moving a camera the same way I would walk through the room.

I wouldn´t write about it if there wasn´t a trend with really good stuff and great way using 3d. 3d is more and more emancipating itself like painting did when the photo camera was invented. I love to see the new Jeep campaign produced by Deli Pictures telling a story completely made in 3d but using the phantasy. You can see it here (you have to look under “work” and then the letter “j”).

It´s a big trend most of all in UK and USA experimenting with different ways of texturing within 3d or working with the never disappearing stop motion. The Swedish animation studio againstallodds made for the Canadian market a lovely spot with dolls which they handcrafted. It´s the 9th work example in the portfolio section.

Take also a look at the works of the New York postproduction agency Shilo.