korb

KORB is a freelance based VFX and design company founded by CGI director Rimantas Lukavicius. Working along with the other freelancers and companies KORB specifies in visual effects, motion graphics and mixed media projects. KORB has been bringing ideas to motion and backwards since 2005.

a couple of my favorites from korb...





and here's his showreel from 08



his use of CG liquids is most impressive.

fotograph attraction

some short narratives on attraction that i came across recently. each done entirely in photograph, except the first one, which still counts because it feels like it should be framed and hung on a wall. an amazing accomplishment.

they resonate beautifully their individual messages.


spy films also has credits in yeasayer's ambling alp and O.N.E videos. and i sorta like yeasayer.

to me they all capture the spontaneous power of fleeting relationships. from a glance, to innocent indulgence, to realization. each experience however long (seconds, hours, days) is such a rush and life is full of them. the more imaginative the more intense.

vital

some music for a friday night.
this is a trailor for Vital's upcoming EP. i'm pretty sure it's done with AE, trapcode particular, and some solar flares. works so well. the song is "Saying" which is also posted in full below.





sick visuals and a huge space of sound. me gusta soo hard.

cutout animation

a pair of really cool animations that remind me of PS's cutout filter.

fashion lights

smaller projections this time. me really gusta these a lot.
another solid case for projector art. if you liked the
  buildings
you'll prolly like these too.


kinda like my ole L.A Gears.


real nice audio visual coordination here. feels like drugs to me.


lights and music on my mind courtesy Swedish electro artist mille.

white lines

a few examples of some interesting 3d white lines interacting with 2d video. so simple with AE, but very nice.


an ambitious little Greek robot working with some white lines like Greek robots do.


created for the AICP southwest awards. the depth and ambiance added by the blurring and vibrating of these simple white lines and 2d text make this what it is. the animals are cool, but not as well executed as the labeling in my opinion.

memo akten

www.willakenzie.blogspot.com/2011/01/memo-akten.html



make sure you watch before you read on. for me the best part about this was the delayed revelation of what it actually is. i love this concept, but the execution is beyond imagination. so well done. his words:

When the clip starts, you probably won't recognize a human shape at first, but your eyes and mind will be searching, seeking mental connections between abstract shapes and recognizable patterns, like looking for shapes in clouds. You'll be questioning what you see, is that it? is it sitting? is it crouching? is it kneeling? Then all of a sudden, it'll be crystal clear. Then you'll try and keep it in focus, following it as it moves around, tracking each limb, using the motion to construct an image of the parts you can't see. It'll fade in and out of clarity. At times you'll be clinging onto just the tip of it's hand swinging round, trying to identify any other recognizable parts. You might see another arm or leg and grab onto it, fighting not to lose it. Then it'll be crystal clear again, and then all of a sudden vanish, literally in a puff of smoke, and your eyes will start searching again.

i can't imagine what this could be if the audio was woven into the visualization and not just an overlay. maybe like this video he did for depeche mode.


his site has a lot of neat live interactive concepts like this one.



and check out a live set he did for OKGo (RE:member them). nuts.

projections

some of the best examples i've seen of building projections.



On the site of a thousand years of violent history, ACDC were pitted against Iron Man in a ground breaking architectural projection mapping project.  The front facade of the Great Keep at Rochester Castle, was brought to life using the latest in 3D animation techniques. This onslaught of the senses, saw the castle confront it's ultimate challenge. Warping, morphing, spewing and collapsing before the audiences eyes. Let there be rock!




Battle of Branchage.
Architectural Projection Mapping @ Branchage Film Festival 2009




AntiVJ presents:

SONGDO
an audiovisual performance, August 2009
New Songdo city, South Korea.


i'm thinking about renting a square in holland somewhere, building a tower with a DJ and projecting on all four sides of the square. i imagine i will either melt and evaporate from sensory overload or just throwup on myself and have to leave.

particles

when i first saw Esteban Diacono's particle generation i had no idea what i was looking at. 




and 22 year old VFX artist Matthias Muller, makes his a little more vibrant.









these would be sick as stills, but the elements of music and motion synchronization give these clips a very powerful physical context. they're like illuminated ink drops with sensibilities. watching these justifies my autistic tendency to only be able to slowly add creamer to my coffee. i always have to watch it. the thinner and more contrast the better.

so...

when i watch this, i can only wonder if these guys aren't completely depressed by the massive waste of time their project was by today's standards. it's insane how their thousands of combined man hours is today almost worthless. the illusion they created has nothing but antique value and is easily be outdone by anyone with a macbook, some CS5, and an afternoon off. i can only hope that this at least got them laid in 1982. it's crazy what we're able to do now almost 30 years later.


PIXELS by Patrick Jean from ONE MORE PRODUCTION on Vimeo.

it's fair to assume that in 30 more years, "Pixels" will also be a punchline from 09. "how was that cool?"