Japanese Typography Imagined In 3D

Japanese product designer Hideo Kanbara imagined what it would be like if Japanese hiragana characters had to be written in 3D. In his two examples, Kanbara rethinks the ways the characters would look like when viewed from different angles to show how much more complicated the language could be.

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Li Hongbo – Pure White Paper, Formable Sculptures

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iPhone Diorama

Michael Ko spent 3 months constructing this short film that combines real camera footage with 3D rendering in Vray, Maya, After Effects, and Pftrack. Love it!!
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Haroshi - Aberricanise Me

This guys unbelievable talent in sculpture and carpentry is most inspiring. Just goes to show what a bit of determination and perseverance can achieve.

Disney Digital Comic Book Tron Uses HTML5

Disney Digital Books has taken the next step in comic viewing with their latest incarnation of the Tron merchandise line. Using the power of HTML5, they have created a beautiful interactive comic strip that has background music, flashing lights as well as dynamic movement between each frame...I personally think that they are onto a winner here! I'm sure there will be more coming very soon....

“It’s truly an interactive environment people don’t expect to see on a website,” said Ken Disbennett, art director for Vectorform, who worked closely on the project. “When a character is smashing through a glass wall, you can see and experience the glass particles shattering. We couldn’t have achieved this the way we did without the hardware acceleration in Internet Explorer 9 or the use of a plug-in.”

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Tron Legacy 3D Aerosol Video Time Lapse Video

End of the Line, in association with Distillery Productions and Toby Summerskill, have filmed the first 3D Aerosol Mural Time-lapse video. Created to document the production of a painted promo for Disney’s Tron: Legacy this is the final 2D edit.

Tron Legacy : Aerosol Mural from End of the line

This groundbreaking project was filmed in December 2010 and January 2011, in a warehouse in Shoreditch with the exterior shots taken from the rooftops of East London.
Filmed over 4 days, it shows the execution of a 20-metre mural that was painted on huge canvases for installation on Great Eastern Street. The time-lapse was created using 2 x Canon 5D MK2 cameras and a specially constructed 3D rig provided by Inition.

Adam Spizak

Adam Spizak is a UK-based artist/illustrator who uses a blend of Cinema4D, Pencils & Photoshop to achieve his desired effects....

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3D Sound Through Headphones

In this demo you can hear a box of matches moving around your head and going up and down! This is a demo of the advanced Dolby Headphone technology. Just watch the video WITH headphones & close your eyes.....how is up & down sound possible though headphones???!!!
Apparently it uses a technology called Binaurual Sound....summink way over my head!

OneDotZero Adventures In Motion 2010

Pioneering festival onedotzero_adventures in motion returns this year to London’s BFI Southbank from 10 – 14 November 2010, presenting the most exciting international moving image work, from the offbeat to the radical, aiming to push the boundaries of creativity, innovation and technological wonder.



This year the festival features a variety of sensory experiences including a multi screen installation by Quayola, 2001-inspired intimate cinema Pods from Ovei, AntiVJ's latest incarnation of their audiovisual volcano mapping project "Eyjafjallajokull", Hellicar & Lewis and Feedback.

Music also features prominently, with very special live events by DJ Yoda at the BFI IMAX, a 20th anniversary screening and bar event for Ninja Tune as part of BUG and a special edition of the BFI's regular AV extravaganza, Dark Fibre, working with Musion's 3D holographic projection technology with a confirmed line-up including, Holotronica [Stuart Warren-Hill, Hexstatic], AV artists D-Fuse, av artists d-fuse with audio from Swayzak's Brun, VJ/illustrator Shantell Martin and electronic DJ/Producer 10SUI.

Gorey Castle Video Mapping

Evan Grant brings buildings to life with 3D projections. As part of Jersey's recent Branchage Festival, the 29-year-old founder of Shoreditch-based arts and technology collective Seeper - http://www.seeper.com projected ultra-bright video on to the walls of the third-century Gorey Castle. I think the best bit is around 1:15, when the castle becomes a giant undulating rubiks cube type-thingy....
(Another thanks to Jorge Nieto, who might as well start blogging for us considering how much info he sends our way!)

Steel Wire 3D Sculptures

Artist Shi Jindian created these amazing 3D sculptures from steel wire.
By trial and error, he learned how to crochet the two-dimensional strands into three-dimensional forms, using tools of his own devising. His wire meshes start out as wrappings around some common object. When the mesh is complete, Shi Jindian destroys or extracts the object, leaving only its steel exoskeleton.

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Reso 3D Type

I absolutely love this: "Collectors and fans of the artworks of RESO will have to listen attentively because he is bringing his art and style into the 3rd dimension. In close cooperation with the CGI-designer Dennis Norheimer, RESO created his very first sculpture with which he pioneers another level of graffiti art: He liberates styles from their static two-dimensionality by creating something palpable.

The first object is simply called “object one”, can be seen above. It´s available in a limited edition of 10 signed and numbered pieces, which are made of a high-strength infiltrated synthetic material that looks like stone and feels a little bit like wood. (37×14x6cm) Using this material is the only way to get a sculpture this filigree and solid at the same time. Now its time for the Big version, jump and see the 3 to 4m long stye object by Reso."


Visit RESO's site HERE.
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Graffiti Technica 3D

Brad Schwede aka Graffiti Technica, is a 3D graphic designer from Brisbane, Australia.

I am heavily influenced by people using technology to push this art form in new directions.

Graffiti Research Lab has been a huge influence as they have really pioneered a whole different approach to modern graffiti and started doing things that no one else was even thinking about. Obviously the whole culture of graffiti has exploded since modern culture has gone online and the digital world of delivery is here. When I first started taking an interest in graffiti styles the only way to see it was in backstreets and the side of buildings.

I've always wanted to take my work into digital 3d as I think there is a lot of design that can be done in the digital world that isn't possible or easy with paint. My focus is purely on taking my design style in a different direction to see what is possible with this art form.


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Nintendo 3DS

Nintendo has annouced its new portable hardware, the Nintendo 3DS($TBA). It will allow users to play 3D games without the need for special glasses, they claim that the 3DS will achieve naked eye 3D by using a parallax barrier technique. It is smaller than the DSi LL, is compatible with Nintendo DSi, which includes a top screen is 3.5 inches and a 3-inch bottom screen, motion sensor, and Wi-Fi. Available within the next 6 months....


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Udom Ruangpaisitporn

Damien Canderle

You can view more of Damien's work here.

Demoscene.tv

Thanks to a friend for these Amazing videos which are actually completely coded by programmers and then when viewed they are executed on a computer in real-time using an e.g. an .exe file.

This first video uses a programming/mathematical technique known as recursion which is also used to code fractals.




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3D Art By Various Artists

Here are a few interesting 3D pieces done by various artists.

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Minoru 3D Webcam

The world's first 3D webcam. You'll have to wear a pair of those cardboard specs to see the effect, but it enables you to have all your webchats in 3D. You can get them HERE for £39.95.

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Avatar Movie Trailer

Plot:
"A paraplegic ex-marine war veteran (Sam Worthington) is unwillingly sent to establish a human settlement on the distant planet of Pandora, only to find himself battling humankind alongside the planet’s indigenous Na’vi race in this ambitious, digital 3-D sci-fi epic from Academy Award-winning Titanic director James Cameron."

Quite possibly I may spontaneously combust in anticipation for this film. Apparently it's going to come out in the Imax cinema. Fuck Toy Story, go see this.