Month: December 2008

Ferenc Cakó animation

joellynrock Animation, Digital Narrative

If you haven’t seen sand animation before, check out this beautiful example on youtube…

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link to youtube

Vivaldi Four Seasons Winter Sand Animation film Ferenc Cakó

link to more about the artist

http://www.cakostudio.hu/

more of his films

http://www.cakostudio.hu/images/filmography_sand.html

Ferenc Cakó was born in Budapest (Hungary) in 1950. His individual and special sand animation show is very popular all over the world. Sand animation is done on a stage, where people can see Mr. Cako actually doing the performance. He is performing in total darkness, and the picture is projected out with a high power and resolution video projector.

Custom Toys Galore!

joellynrock DIY Crafts, Recently Noticed

Hero Builders

Build your own hip hop action figures and urban action figures right here, online. This is the first site on the Internet that has totally customizable toys and12″ action figures. …The race you want, the look, the clothes, even the eye and hair color can be changed!

http://www.herobuilders.com/ondemand/

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Toy Builders

Stereolithography (SLA) and vacuum-casting is the technology used to make rapid-prototype toys. We can work from sketches or digital files of any kind in order to create your product. Using your images, sketches or 3D files from any 3D program we can create any product or toy you imagine instantly.

http://www.toybuilders.com/building_your_3d_creations.htm

Bigshot Toyworks is a creative studio specializing in the design and production of unique collectables, toys and art objects.

http://www.bigshottoyworks.com/category/rapid-prototyping/

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World of Warcraft

FigurePrints are one-of-a-kind, custom statues of your World of Warcraft® characters created using high-tech 3D color printing machines. Our artists pull your character from the virtual world and bring it to life.

http://www.figureprints.com/Default.aspx

Rockband Merch

Rock Band 2 developer Harmonix has opened a new section of its game’s official site allowing players to order custom merchandise based on their in-game bands — including 6-inch figurines of individual bandmates.

http://www.rockband.com/merch

3d models in Photoshop

joellynrock Photoshop tips, Recently Noticed

Here’s a great way to bring editable 3d models into photoshop for product mockups and other digital compositing:
Photoshop® CS3 Extended Plug-in for Google 3D Warehouse is a free plug-in that enables you to search and download 3D models from Google 3D Warehouse? directly from Adobe® Photoshop CS3 Extended.

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the plug in will give you this new 3D toolbar in photoshop for rotating and altering 3d models. After you open a 3D model you can change the model’s position, camera view, lighting, or render mode, create a cross-section view, or play animation contained in the 3D file. To create these changes, you use the Photoshop 3D tools.

BUT FIRST you must download the free plug in for CS3 extended Google 3D Warehouse

from http://www.labs.adobe.com

or

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Photoshop_CS3_Extended_Plug-In_for_Google_3D_Warehouse

Once you have downloaded the plug-in, you can search Google 3D Warehouse from Photoshop CS3 Extended by going to File>Automate>Search Google for 3D Model.

search for a file you want + download it (everything from pop cans to cars to greek temples!)

NOTE> all of this will be changing + updating in the new CS4 software!

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Design Literacy > Continued

joellynrock Uncategorized

For extra credit in GD2 post your comments here…

You can comment about another of the essay’s in Steven Heller’s Design Literacy book

(an essay from the MEDIA section?)

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or about another article on Voice: AIGA Journal of Design

Voice: AIGA Journal of Design is an online publication for the discussion of design matters, featuring insightful interviews, engaging essays and thoughtful criticism.

Don’t forget to list the name of the essay + author and give us your insight about it!

Erik Loyer's SWING for Wii

joellynrock Recently Noticed

Erik Loyer’s Swing demo is an experience with Jazz typography. Check it out.

New version of Swing the Wii Remote typographic karaoke Flash experience, to debut this Saturday http://erikloyer.com/index.php/blog/

Since it’s debut last year, “Swing” has evolved into a kind of typographic
karaoke experience–we’ll use online services to stream your choice of
song, download the lyrics, and get you waggling your way to happiness.

from his website
Generous Machine : Experiments

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