update 27.01.10: iPad lounched!
Around 499€ could be a nice alternative for the netbook market. The target- lazy couch surfers.

It’s true! Tomorrow (2010-01-27) Apple will unleash a new product. Rumors starts with an Apple TV all the way to an Apple Toaster. But now we are quiet sure that the new baby will be an Apple Tablet called iSlatePad (what a funny name). What do you think will be the next Apple Product?

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Medusateam (Spain) did a nice showreel, watch it!

Creative direction: Medusateam
Art direction & graphic design: Medusateam
Motion: collaboration with: Toñy
Company: Medusateam Studio
Year:2009

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(german version)

crazy trip into abstract digital paradise.
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Streetartist and designer Banksy is doing a exhibition at his home town Bristol Museum now. Till 31 of August 2009 you can enter the museum for free.

more pictures

(German - for english version klick here)

Paul Kalkbrenner war am Wochenende bei uns in der Stadt (fluc / soundframe) und er hat nicht nur an den Platten gedreht sondern parallel auch seinen neuen Film “Berlin Calling” vorgestellt. Maria hat sich den Film angesehen und uns ein kleines review zusammengestellt.

Review
Bin selbst ohne große Erwartungen in die Filmpremiere am Samstag ins Wiener Filmcasino gegangen (more…)

Shit! Justice stole Daft Punk’s samples. So not only Daft Punk are grabbing samples also Justice is doing bad things here. In the background you have the Paris skyline and a chiptunes version from “one more time”. Just two levels but infinite fun for the real daft punk headz. play the game>
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Listening to Minilogues latest “Mr Mustafa Ep Vinyl”. So who is producing these tunes and could it be that we heard this guys from sweden some years ago? Yes, Sebastian Mullaert and Marcus Henriksson played under the name “Son Kite”, a psychedelic trance duo who have been always close to the minimal progressive side. (One of them was using a white electric violin on stage.)

Surprise! These two guys come up now with Minilogue and a (more…)

Let’s see what we have here, a 21 year old talented motion graphic designer from Melbourne who made this flipping 3d animation. We say bravo! because our 3dstudiomax motion graphics career stucks a bit after some strange experimental picture output that looks like a rohrschacht-test.

It is an entirely animated 3D piece called “A Short Visual History of Videogames”.
It is a 3 minute long “visual essay” (or whatever you call these things) about the history of videogame consoles, from 1972 when Ralph Baer invented the Odyssey with Bob Tremblay, to the launch of the current generation of consoles and beyond.

I did my project about the history of videogames because; I know lots about it, and I’m not very good at the deep-meaningful/pretentious stuff that most student films/animations seem to consist of. Plus ultimately my piece was always mainly intended to be a sort of modelling showreel, with the narrative taking a back seat to pretty visuals designed to show off my technical abilities with 3D modelling and lighting etc.

My aim here was to develop my modelling/texturing/lighting/compositing skills to the point where I was able to achieve photo realistic visuals with all of the consoles.

some screenshots for a fresh desktop

Game Computers in the video:
Atari 2600
Nintendo N.E.S
Sega Master System
Sega Mega Drive 16bit
Sega Saturn
Nindendo 64
Sony Playstation I
Sony Playstation II
XBOX
Game Cube

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