Hydrobots is my first project made with Cinder, a open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.

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This application is inspired by the great work of Robert Hodgin/flight404.

Geon is my another application made with Processing. This time I wanted to create something biological, organic, something similar to underwater creatures. By the way I learned a lot of advanced OpenGL techniques. My first thought was to create a few tendrils moving around one mutual point. At the beginning I draw a 3D lines. Then I used vector cross product to prepare a mesh, which consists of 350 points that define shape of object in 3D. Read the rest of this entry »

Black hole is an application made with Processing. I have been working on it for few last months.
Making it I had to learn some OpenGL and remind my math backgrounds, but I hope it was worth it. At the beginning I wanted to create a dark sphere with dynamic glow. Using a OpenGL substractive blending and simple math transformation I created a resizing glow similar to cloud or nebula. [Turn on the speakers please]
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I recently stumbled upon some really dope vfx and audio work created by Theodor Groeneboom. Each work also has a pretty detailed description / study so you can get familiar with the processes over the creation of it.

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Theodor Groeneboom

GREAT shorty made by international team of the best 3D artists and developers in the Blender community. They have been invited to come together to work in Amsterdam from October 2007 until April 2008 on completing a short 3D animation movie. The team members got a great studio facility and housing in Amsterdam, all travel costs reimbursed, and a fee sufficient to cover all expenses during the period which is a great thing.

Watch and enjoy! We did.

Related links:
bigbuckbunny.org

Frantic Films Software, the software development arm of VFX studio Frantic Films, wanted to tell the industry that its high-volume point-based particle renderer Krakatoa was used by German post facility Unexpected on a recent commercial campaign for Snickers Russia. The two-spot effort via ad agency BBDO Moscow and Spy Films, Toronto, combines feature film-quality VFX with live-action to tell a story of biomechanical creatures that use Snickers

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Karakatoa on Rugby

VideoTrace is a system for interactively generating realistic 3D models of objects from video-models that might be inserted into a video game, a simulation environment, or another video sequence. The user interacts with VideoTrace by tracing the shape of the object to be modeled over one or more frames of the video. By interpreting the sketch drawn by the user in light of 3D information obtained from computer vision techniques, a small number of simple 2D interactions can be used to generate a realistic 3D model. (via ACoVT). Outstanding idea. Enjoy watching.

Related links:
Australian Centre of Visual Technologies - Videotrace

We’ve heard a lot about Processing lately. This year OFFF in Barcelona and NY we could see how beautiful things can be created with processing. What this magic world really means?
Processing is (via Wiki) a programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts and visual design communities, which aims to teach the basics of computer programming in a visual context. One of the stated aims of Processing is to act as a tool to get non-programmers started with programming, through the instant gratification of visual feedback. It is a language that builds on the graphical side of the Java programming language, simplifying features and creating a few new ones.

Nervo TV (founded by Nando Costa) in cooperation with Barbarian Group did new identification for Fox Movies sci-fi and horror channel launched in Japan and Argentina. Based on combination of processing method and motion. It’s really something fresh and different. Combining math algorithms and graphic once again allow artists develop great results.

Via motiongrapher

Related links:
Processing.org
Processing Examples
Download Enviroment
Nervo TV
Barbarian Group

Hatch Studios is a small company based in Toronto, Canada. Creative core consist of three persons: Randi Yaffa (Executive Producer), Richard Rosenman (3D animation), Larisa Ullisko (Design Director). And they really show great skills.

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hatchstudios.net