I just found a 2nd part to short animation where logos and brands are used to create a city;
and an infographic for Areva and energy,
finally infographics by Experiencia Discovery - Discovery Channel do good little videos on how things work.
2 March 2010
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Change for Life
I think this is a great example of an up to date infographic. You have probably seen it on TV recently. I have just watched it with Sara, and we both agreed that it is very like my style. The little red bus went past, and I said 'Hey, that's my bus!!' It isn't my bus FYI, it just looks like the ones I draw...
I think it also shows the different techniques we could use, for e.g. clay, or vector graphic animations! There is a HUGE playlist of them, so go have a field day....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyvfSmB0YOQ
I couldn't embed the film because the user has disabled this option! Apologies - but don't be lazy, copy and paste the URL.
I think it also shows the different techniques we could use, for e.g. clay, or vector graphic animations! There is a HUGE playlist of them, so go have a field day....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyvfSmB0YOQ
I couldn't embed the film because the user has disabled this option! Apologies - but don't be lazy, copy and paste the URL.
1 March 2010
YOU HAVE TO WATCH;
http://www.kristian-andrews.com/index.php?pg=2&l2=83
This film ^^^^
This guy is incredibly talented. I think, Rob especially, will like this animation. Let me know what you think because I am utterly amazed by the creativity of it, and how long it must have taken.
This film ^^^^
This guy is incredibly talented. I think, Rob especially, will like this animation. Let me know what you think because I am utterly amazed by the creativity of it, and how long it must have taken.
league table
as we hurtle ever faster towards the end of term, it's time for me to get out my abacus and work out the monthly league table standings again.
it looks like it's turning into a two horse race for the title, as kitty and rob have put a bit of clear blue water between themselves and karl, who's still leading the chasing pack.
complaints, protests and "i wrote six reviews last week. where are my points?" rants to the usual address, please:
it looks like it's turning into a two horse race for the title, as kitty and rob have put a bit of clear blue water between themselves and karl, who's still leading the chasing pack.
complaints, protests and "i wrote six reviews last week. where are my points?" rants to the usual address, please:
Little Red Riding Hood
I was looking for inspiration for this new brief, and found this funny yet strange infographic - not too sure if it is one, although it is said so on the description. Anyway...it caught my eye!
The Academy Awards (Oscars) - a love/ hate relationship
So it's the Academy Awards next sunday, and i'm very much looking forward to seeing Christoph Waltz win the Best Supporting Actor award....which if he doesn't win will result in a whirlwind of abuse being launched at the television, or perhaps a little more appropriately just have me tweeting my disappointment....
A year on though and it's still the events of the previous awards show that are still fresh in my mind, with both good and bad points lingering in my consciousness.
Bad -
Every year at the various awards shows they have a showreel of fallen filmmakers and actors who have passed away in that year, in this particular awards show the reel unfortunately contained Charlton Heston (the master of the 4 hour movie). As the video played out and the different faces came on screen, everyone applauded....such names Paul Neumann and Heath Ledger were also in this particular reel.
And then Charlton Heston's clip came on, and the applause lowered significantly. Almost silence. Until the next face on the reel showed up and the applause resumed.
I was disgusted. It was since then that I realised there are oscar-politics.
Apparently Charlton Heston had fallen out with the panel or guild that makes up the academy awards some number of years earlier, and despite the fact that he was also the head of the NRA (National Rifle Association), it seems as if the entire actors guild had been deliberately turned against him for his defiance.
It's also only in the last few weeks that I discovered that the late Marlon Brando had also been in a similar disagreement and recieved the shame shun of applause when he had passed away.
I found it really disappointing to watch....should they not at least be applauded for the many great performances that they had given to the world of film?
Good -
There was one redeeming feature of last years ceremony which I found very inspiring, Terry Gilliam was awarded the life-time achievement award and he was pretty cool doing his speech even putting in some funny jokes...but then he said something along the lines of:
"I think it's absurd that they're awarding me a life-time achievement award for the films that i've done....when i'm still trying to figure out how to actually make one"
I found this particularly inspiring because i'm someone who always wondering how the professionals do things, and if the way that I do things is the right way. And it's just very reassuring to know that one of best people in the field who people look up to is still learning and still has doubts when working on a project.
A year on though and it's still the events of the previous awards show that are still fresh in my mind, with both good and bad points lingering in my consciousness.
Bad -
Every year at the various awards shows they have a showreel of fallen filmmakers and actors who have passed away in that year, in this particular awards show the reel unfortunately contained Charlton Heston (the master of the 4 hour movie). As the video played out and the different faces came on screen, everyone applauded....such names Paul Neumann and Heath Ledger were also in this particular reel.
And then Charlton Heston's clip came on, and the applause lowered significantly. Almost silence. Until the next face on the reel showed up and the applause resumed.
I was disgusted. It was since then that I realised there are oscar-politics.
Apparently Charlton Heston had fallen out with the panel or guild that makes up the academy awards some number of years earlier, and despite the fact that he was also the head of the NRA (National Rifle Association), it seems as if the entire actors guild had been deliberately turned against him for his defiance.
It's also only in the last few weeks that I discovered that the late Marlon Brando had also been in a similar disagreement and recieved the shame shun of applause when he had passed away.
I found it really disappointing to watch....should they not at least be applauded for the many great performances that they had given to the world of film?
Good -
There was one redeeming feature of last years ceremony which I found very inspiring, Terry Gilliam was awarded the life-time achievement award and he was pretty cool doing his speech even putting in some funny jokes...but then he said something along the lines of:
"I think it's absurd that they're awarding me a life-time achievement award for the films that i've done....when i'm still trying to figure out how to actually make one"
I found this particularly inspiring because i'm someone who always wondering how the professionals do things, and if the way that I do things is the right way. And it's just very reassuring to know that one of best people in the field who people look up to is still learning and still has doubts when working on a project.
Noise Lab review: The Owl Project
Yesterday I went to the Noise Lab for their latest event which was a talk by Graham Massey (of 808 State), basically telling people about his history and how influences and Manchester changed his music over time. Unfortunately, due to the pigeon-hole time slot of one hour that he was given, he had only told us of his progress up until 1987 when his time had run out. It was interesting but perhaps a bit disappointing considering he didn't make it to the period which he is actually famous for....but I guess it's understandable that the Noise Lab can't afford to run any longer.
After this though there was another talk by a group calling themselves 'The Owl Project', which initially had everyone in the room laughing due to how bizarre it was. They're basically a group of guys that get pieces of logs from a tree and put various electronic chips inside, perhaps an inside joke at the natural sounds that they create, the aim of it all being that they exploit the random and generic sounds such as mains hum and static which come from naturally from all electronics....and then combine these to create minimal electronic music.
Whilst there were moments throughout the demonstration of sudden loud static sounds which almost caused us to have a heart attack, it was interesting that there were actually some rhythms amongst the hiss. In particular I found that some of the sounds they were creating on the spot triggered a visual connection in my mind, the one of which I remember quite clearly was of a train journey.
Up until this point I don't think that anyone was really taking them seriously as people were still laughing....and even the two guys of group giving the talk were also laughing themselves. But then they introduced their latest gizmo called 'sticks'.....
The guy picks up these two sticks resembling claves (again cut from a tree log) and plugs a USB cable into them, he then opens up a piece of software that they had written to accompany it....the interface of which was just a blank waveform with 8 zeros underneath, and a metronome click sounding along with it. He explained that he wanted to experiment with the binary code that controls all actions of a computer (combinations of 0 and 1) so that he could use rhythm to complete basic computer tasks.
Sure enough he demonstrated this by banging the two sticks together in particular rhythms, which interpreted by the 8 bar binary code in the software changed each click from a 0 to a 1.....therefore changing the overall binary code and producing an action.
....of course this all sounds very confusing, but to put it simply....he banged the sticks together as a rhythm and just by doing this was able to open up his e-mail program, open a new e-mail, type it out and then send it!
Whilst it was really funny to watch, I found it very inspiring and innovative....and I could envision a future for this method of input whereby people who have lost limbs or are less able to use a computer with a keyboard and mouse can have the chance to be more active with technology. A concept which I think is very important considering the way that technology is affecting all our lives and will continue to do so even more in the future.
After this though there was another talk by a group calling themselves 'The Owl Project', which initially had everyone in the room laughing due to how bizarre it was. They're basically a group of guys that get pieces of logs from a tree and put various electronic chips inside, perhaps an inside joke at the natural sounds that they create, the aim of it all being that they exploit the random and generic sounds such as mains hum and static which come from naturally from all electronics....and then combine these to create minimal electronic music.
Whilst there were moments throughout the demonstration of sudden loud static sounds which almost caused us to have a heart attack, it was interesting that there were actually some rhythms amongst the hiss. In particular I found that some of the sounds they were creating on the spot triggered a visual connection in my mind, the one of which I remember quite clearly was of a train journey.
Up until this point I don't think that anyone was really taking them seriously as people were still laughing....and even the two guys of group giving the talk were also laughing themselves. But then they introduced their latest gizmo called 'sticks'.....
The guy picks up these two sticks resembling claves (again cut from a tree log) and plugs a USB cable into them, he then opens up a piece of software that they had written to accompany it....the interface of which was just a blank waveform with 8 zeros underneath, and a metronome click sounding along with it. He explained that he wanted to experiment with the binary code that controls all actions of a computer (combinations of 0 and 1) so that he could use rhythm to complete basic computer tasks.
Sure enough he demonstrated this by banging the two sticks together in particular rhythms, which interpreted by the 8 bar binary code in the software changed each click from a 0 to a 1.....therefore changing the overall binary code and producing an action.
....of course this all sounds very confusing, but to put it simply....he banged the sticks together as a rhythm and just by doing this was able to open up his e-mail program, open a new e-mail, type it out and then send it!
Whilst it was really funny to watch, I found it very inspiring and innovative....and I could envision a future for this method of input whereby people who have lost limbs or are less able to use a computer with a keyboard and mouse can have the chance to be more active with technology. A concept which I think is very important considering the way that technology is affecting all our lives and will continue to do so even more in the future.
One more thing...
I have just thought of another example;
the film you see at the start of a flight??
These infographics always make me giggle! Instead of informing you of what to do in a crash - I think it is safe to say it makes you more nervous aha! I love flying myself, but during the infographic when people are jumping out of the plane onto a boat, or when the gas masks coming down, I can always see people on the plane having a heart attack!!!
the film you see at the start of a flight??
These infographics always make me giggle! Instead of informing you of what to do in a crash - I think it is safe to say it makes you more nervous aha! I love flying myself, but during the infographic when people are jumping out of the plane onto a boat, or when the gas masks coming down, I can always see people on the plane having a heart attack!!!
New Brief?
Right guys,
Today I feel a bit more human you will be happy to hear!! I have read up on the new brief, and looked at the examples. I haven't actually ever heard of the word infographics but I think I have got what it means..
In simple terms, is it 'a small animation to explain an issue'. Not the best explanation I have ever thought of, but I think it makes sense.
My mind is now rushing around with ideas - need to get a sketchbook going this afternoon, after a not so exciting trip to the dentist :( boo! Numb mouth here I come!!
This example is more of an advert than an infographic as such, however, when I saw this my mind starting racing about how they created it. Plus it made me want a Dyson Washing Machine...Very effective advertising therefore;
http://www.studioaka.com/#/work-dysoncampaign
Also, has anyone seen the film Dodgeball? The 5 D's of Dodgeball, duck, dip, dive and dodge - I think this has an infographic in it? Do you remember the bit with the Dodgeball 'How to play' dvd with patches o'hoolihan haha!
Today I feel a bit more human you will be happy to hear!! I have read up on the new brief, and looked at the examples. I haven't actually ever heard of the word infographics but I think I have got what it means..
In simple terms, is it 'a small animation to explain an issue'. Not the best explanation I have ever thought of, but I think it makes sense.
My mind is now rushing around with ideas - need to get a sketchbook going this afternoon, after a not so exciting trip to the dentist :( boo! Numb mouth here I come!!
This example is more of an advert than an infographic as such, however, when I saw this my mind starting racing about how they created it. Plus it made me want a Dyson Washing Machine...Very effective advertising therefore;
http://www.studioaka.com/#/work-dysoncampaign
Also, has anyone seen the film Dodgeball? The 5 D's of Dodgeball, duck, dip, dive and dodge - I think this has an infographic in it? Do you remember the bit with the Dodgeball 'How to play' dvd with patches o'hoolihan haha!
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