Art
A Material Point Method For Snow Simulation – How Snow is Made for Disney’s Frozen
As part of the marketing for the release of Disney’s Frozen on November 27, 2013, the studio has shared a SIGGRAPH video describing their snow-making technology.
Going Full Tardis: A Composite of the Faces of All the Doctor Who Actors
Inspired by the face research project and the theory that attractive faces are really perfectly average, we wondered what the average of all the Doctors would look like– if in some strange fan fiction, all their DNA were combined to produce the Doctor.
Starcadian Goes Galactic With ‘Sunset Blood’ and Explains How To Make a Music Video With $200
We managed to snag an interview with Starcadian, the artist behind the retro music video He^rt and the full-length album Sunset Blood. During our discussion Starcadian talked about 80’s movies, video games, and pop culture that shaped his album’s sound and music video aesthetics. It became apparent during our conversation that Starcadian is deeply motivated by the emotions he felt watching Labyrinth and other films of his youth.
Shane Koyczan and Hannah Epperson – Remember How We Forgot
“Live and remember, burn like an ember…”
Superman 75th Anniversary Animated Short Directed by Zack Snyder Highlights the Evolution of The Man of Steel
DC Comics just posted perhaps the coolest Superman animated short ever made. Prepare to travel through the last 75 years of Superman’s history in just a couple minutes.
Science Fiction Space Ship Comparison Chart
Have you ever wondered how big Star Destroyer from the Star Wars Universe is compared to size of Star Trek’s Enterprise? Deviantart user DirkLoechel answers that question and more. The chart shows the space ships from numerous science fiction universes at a scale of 1 pixel to 10 meters.
Fiona Apple Does a Cover of “Pure Imagination” For a Chipotle Ad
Fiona Apple covers the song “Pure Imagination,” originally performed by Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The video was an ad created by Moonbot Studios for Chipotle as part of their “Food with Integrity Campaign”, to raise awareness about factory farming.
Lucasfilm and ILM will Change how Movie Special Effects are Made
Kim Libreri of Lucasfilm spoke at the Technology Strategy Board event at BAFTA this week, presenting a demo of their motion-capture stage. They are gathering the actor’s motion captured data and putting their virtual characters in fully rendered environments in real time. They are also manipulating the assets, buildings, weather, landscape on the fly.
Is Bot & Dolly’s “Box” the Future of Interactive Live Performances?
We’ve previously talked about Bot & Dolly using articulated robots to transform the job of the camera operator. We’ve also discussed the shots Bot & Dolly robots helped create for the movie Gravity. Filmed at their headquarters in San Francisco, California, Bot & Dolly released a short titled “Box”.
Vintage 1977 NASA Video talks about Voyager 1
On September 12, 2013, NASA officially announced that Voyager 1 had left the solar system and begun it’s journey into interstellar space. Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 to study the outer Solar System and interstellar medium. As of August 2013, it is 125 Astronomical Units (AU) from the Sun. One AU is equivalent to the average distance of the Earth to the Sun, roughly 145.5 billion miles. Voyager is currently the furthest man-made object from Earth.
As a throwback to the year Voyager 1 was launched, we found NASA’s Highlights of the 1977 Aeronautics and Space Report. The report outlines some of NASA’s projects at the time, including the Space Shuttle, Voyagers, Landsat, Spacelab, HEAO-1 and energy research.