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Mind Altering Animation By Andreas Hykade
May 13th
German animator, Andreas Hykade created a fractal like short called Love & Theft for the National Film Board of Canada’s annual online contest. Hykade has been working as a freelance filmmaker since 1992 and has been a professor of Animation at the School of Arts and Design Kassel since 2000.
Custom Creations – Vynil toys.
Mar 11th
I have been a massive fan of Kidrobot for aaages and the recent proliferation of custom vynils is just awesome. These few that caught my attention on Kidrobot’s community portal have just captured my imagination!
Markie Darkie has done an awesome job with these:
KidRobot Munny - Custom by Markie Darkie.
Have a look a Markie Darkie’s customs here: http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Custom-Toys-as-Art-Objects-and-Sculptural-Pieces/360735
Customisation in Forza 3
Dec 29th
Forza Motorsport 3: A driving enthusiasts game. So good that I have to get myself the Porsche 911 Torbo-S steering wheel; If you’re reading this Mum click the link;)
Where Dreams Are Driven
Your escape into the world of car culture in “Forza Motorsport 3″ doesn’t stop at the track. Turn 10 is a proven leader in user-generated content creation in games. “Forza Motorsport 3″ further fuels the imaginations of its evergreen community of painters, tuners and photographers with improved customization tools and brand new ways to share creations with the world via Xbox LIVE*. Xbox LIVE makes your journey into the “Forza Motorsport” community and the world of user-generated content easy and fun.
A love of cars lives in all of us. “Forza Motorsport 3″ is the automotive playground we’ve all been waiting for.
Stock as a rock!
Modified.
Believe it or not the above shot is in-game. Just about all aspects of the vehicles are customisable including the exterior paint work.
The above vehicle has taken me 3 days to skin. The bulk of the work was spent using primitive shapes to create the Mr Horsepower – Clay Smith Logo
More of the same or similar community images are on the Forza 3 website. The following in-game image is just purely sublime. Note the damage to the vehicles.
Building Faster Websites with CSS Sprites.
Dec 3rd
Great tutorial by Tutorial 9 on using sprites in CSS. Very useful, in small doses.
Using CSS sprites allows you to greatly increase your websites speed by using single image files that contain multiple graphics. In other words, when you have many images to be used, instead of having them as different individual files, we combine them into one. Therefore, the client computer only downloads one image for all the different graphics to be displayed.
Wizard Smoke
Dec 1st
Salazar was founded in 2008 by Jesse Savath, Bienviendo Cruz, Jeff Petry, and Nathan Drillot as a motion picture collective focusing on music videos and narrative films. All four had been working separately inside the industry in various disciplines. Recognizing natural shared instincts and aesthetics the decision was made to stop competing against each other and join forces as a collective.
New Ducati: Multistrada 1200
Nov 10th
A dream bike? 4 bikes in one.
After three years in development, Ducati’s new “many roads” bike is armed with a 150-horsepower salvo to go after the lucrative adventure-touring/big-trailie market dominated by BMW’s excellent R1200GS. No, the new Duc isn’t intended for Dakar, but most GS owners rarely take their do-it-all steeds in serious off-road situations.
Ducati is describing the new MTS as “four bikes in one,” claiming some measure of an off-road capability. “From a sportbike for outright excitement to a tourer for long journeys with passenger and luggage,” reads an October 30 press release, “and from an everyday bike which can breeze through the daily commute to an agile enduro able to tackle off-road routes, the brand new Ducati transforms itself to suit the rider’s demands.”
Toyota Augmented Reality
Nov 9th
Toyota have used augmented reality technology to create a 3D interactive experience of the new iQ car which you can download.
Toyota iQ is a radical new small car and augmented reality technology allows you to interact with the car to discover its agility and interior space.