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CCTV Ink TV Commercial - Directed by Niko Tziopanos from Troublemakers.tv on Vimeo.

Title: Ink
Length: 60 Sec
Client: CCTV - Central China Television
Agency: MMIA
Creative Director: Zhou Jiahong
Art Director: Wu Hao
Copywriters: Zhou Jiahong, Sophia Xu
Storyboard: Wu Hao, Liang Yuanchun
Production Company: Troublemakers.tv & weareflink.com
Director: Niko Tziopanos
Producer - Troublemakers.tv: James Hagger
Producer - weareflink: Andreas Lampe
CG & Compositing Artist: Alexander Heyer
Compositing Artist: Martin Hess
CG Artist: Philipp Von Preuschen
CG Artist: Timo Schaedel
Ink & Footage: Thore Bornemann
Ink & Making Of: Felix Martens
Production Coordinator: Catharina Foelling
Production Assistant: Aurelie Da Silva
Music & Sound Design: Supreme Music, Florian Lakenmacher
MoCap: MoCap Lab, Remi Brun, Frank Vayssettes, Thomas Oger
Taiji Performer: Alexandre Thorlet
Joker : Willi Wutz

blackhole from arjanM on Vimeo.

This is an animated music video for a new song of mine. You can check http://www.arjanM.com for more music or new videoclips.

NEUFORMA FONT #HFT002 IDENT from HypeForType on Vimeo.

HypeForType Ident:#HFT002
Motion Design: FutureDeluxe.co.uk
Audio: Harmonic 313 / Cyclotron C64 SID
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Typeface: Neuforma
Link: http://su.pr/2W0Ehg
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www.hypefortype.com

Playgrounds festival from Rogier Hendriks on Vimeo.

The film was created in little over 2 weeks.
Playgrounds director Leon van Rooij asked us, like 6 months ago, if we wanted to do the titles for this years’ fest.

I quote: “Playgrounds is a two-day festival in Tilburg, the Netherlands, where you can see the best digital audiovisual art in the world, such as musicvideos, animations, commercials, character design, VFX and games AND you can find out how it’s been made during artist lectures and Q&A’s.”

Of course we said yes, because doing titles for festivals like these are rare opportunities. So we welcomed it with open arms.
Next to that, we’ve been involved in the festival for 3 years now and we are the first ones to design a title sequence for this festival. What a burden…
With no creative brief and even less budget, we slowly started thinking, concepting, designing, thinking of how we could create something impressive, something new, something with a lot of production value but produce-able within 3 weeks and of course something we had not done before with our team, to challenge ourselves even more.

We ended up with the idea to have 2 fighters fighting over whatever on a childrens’ payground. Kind of a metaphor for a creative process, which can be a battle sometimes.. kill your darlings.. etc.. etc… Anyway, this could become visually very interesting, so we thought. We focused on the image, look and feel, a bit more than we used to this time, simply because we wanted to.
We did some research, especially on the visual style in photography, the air we wanted the film to breath.
Initially, the film needed to be very slow paced, almost like a dance on classical music in ultra slow motion, this was still the idea at the time when we shot the images.

Just ultra slow motion, shooting with a phantom camera would not do the trick for us. We wanted to have more control over the slow motion in post production, still be be able to decide camera angles and motion. To do this we used the camera mapping technique in 3D.
The production was made fairly simple compared to live-action shoots with high speed camera’s shooting on location. By using this technique, simply because we only needed still images, we wrapped the shoot in 3 hours. Our photographer, Jasper Faber did an outstanding job by using only 2 flash lights, a camera and a macbook.

In post production we changed the direction a little, we wanted more action. Jasper took a bunch of photo’s which I found out could work just fine in a quick sequence. The contrast between the ultra slow-motion image and super fast paced short sequences made it more powerful and dramatized the impact of the slow motion sequence.
Joris, our sound designer did what was necessary to enhance the impact even more.

For the production of this shoot we contacted rotterdam based production company Revolver and asked them if they wanted to help us out producing the shoot.
Luckily they said yes. They had just signed photographer Jasper Faber who is now represented by Revolver. Jasper was willing to shoot the images and help us out with the production, since we knew that post production would be very time consuming. Revolver helped us out producing it, so we could focus solely on direction and post production.

The people who saw it thus far, all responded to the film equally, asking the same question “… how did you shoot it, with a phantom?” .. no, it’s all 3D.

Credits:

Direction & Post-Production - Onesize (http://www.onesize.com)
Sound Design - Studio Takt (http://www.studio-takt.com)
Production Company - Revolver (http://www.revolver.nl/)
Producer - Dijana Olcay-Hot
Photography - Jasper Faber (http://www.jasperfaber.com/photography.html)
Fighter #1 - Jeroen Roos
Fighter #2 - Cesario di Domenico
Make-up - Elseline Hokke (http://www.elselinehokke.nl/)
Location Scout - Hans v/d Berg

Playgroundfestival: (http://www.playgroundsfestival.nl/)

AXA_EVOLUTION from TronicStudio on Vimeo.

For French Insurance company AXA, Tronic conceived, directed and animated this spot to address the desire to remain relevant in a constantly advancing world. The spot highlights the rapid evolution of mankind by showcasing an origami man transforming himself into some of the most important inventions throughout history. Ending with a question mark and a resolve on the AXA logo, the spot informs the public that the future is uncertain – but AXA is present now and through any changes to come.

Between from Via Grafik on Vimeo.

Director/Screenwriter/Producer/Editor: Tim Bollinger
Cinematographer: Daniel Meinl
Sounddesign: Michael Fakesch http://designingsounds.com

www.between-film.com

ARS ELECTRONICA animation festival 2009 - TRAILER from Claus Helfenschneider on Vimeo.

Directed & Animated by:
Claus Helfenschneider

Screendesign & Trailer Concept by:
Claus Helfenschneider & Alexander Piringer

Sound by:
Dorian Concept (affine Records) http://www.myspace.com/dorianconcept

Check out the Screen Design / Inserts we did for the Animation Festival here: http://vimeo.com/6517398