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    Amateur Weather Forecasters Rejoice

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    / May 25, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Tweet Although some pretty impressive stuff is coming out on CSS3, there still seems to be some Adobe Flash applications to discover, particularly these powerful weather maps. WeatherSpark allows for an animated weather radar with 6 hours of history. Special thanks to Jonathan Voigt for Buzzing this one. Apparently Wunderground...

  2. GMUNK – Interface Artist from TRON

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    / May 25, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Tweet If you navigate past the monkey jerking off on his main page, you can see the massive portfolio that GMUNK has put together, including work from the recent TRON release. Checkout his work through the OUTPUT link.

  4. Daft Punk Visual Mashup

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    / May 16, 2011 / 1 Comment
    Tweet In a style similar to Girl Talk, this mash-up moves through 23 Daft Punk tracks and uses HTML5 and CSS3 in order to visualize all the layers, cuts and waveforms in real time. You can use the timeline on the bottom to skip around. It would have been neat...

  5. Little Dog Military Robot

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    / May 16, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Tweet With every iteration, these robot drones are getting creepier and creepier. Yes, this thing is real and not a movie prop. It’s the procedurally driven animation that procedurally drives me to link to it in this blog. If you haven’t already seen the video for the “Big Dog”, here’s...

  6. Google’s Dance Logo

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    / May 11, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Tweet Google’s front-page tribute to Martha Graham‘s 117th birthday was animated by Ryan J Woodward. A few months back I had posted a link to his animated dance film “Thought of You“. I’m glad Google gave me an excuse to mention this fantastically inspiring short again. The Christian Science Monitor...

  7. Richard Williams – Animator / Director

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    / May 10, 2011 / 1 Comment
    Tweet Working in the animation industry, it’s almost impossible to not have heard of Richard Williams. His Animator’s Survival Kit is a bible for most character animators. Every studio that I have worked at, had at least a half dozen copied floating around. A few years ago, Richard also made...

  8. Fruity Loops 10 Gets More Procedural

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    / May 5, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Tweet I love seeing innovative leaps in software upgrades. Companies willing to take the gamble of creating grumbling purists in order to freshen the product… makes my heart melt. It seems like you can feel out dependencies better, which should help get the big picture, quicker. I’m guessing this would...

  9. Musically Drawing

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    / May 2, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Tweet Here’s one entertaining way to help train yourself to read music… as well as provide a little subliminal programming…?

  10. Zombies Ruin Vacation

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    / April 26, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Tweet Zombies chomping (and being chopped) in reverse, for Zombie Island trailer. Houdini was used for rigging, animation, effects and rendering. A nice score for Toronto based SideFX software! Read the VFX breakdown here.

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