This is the first mock up I have produced for our Professional Project. It a template for the site that we are going to produce for the Digital Media Production course at the Arts Institute. Once we have sorted out all the server side stuff we need we will be able to implement the template so that it all functions properly.

This the second template which I prefer more. I think looks and works a lot better then my previous template. It feel it is a lot more modern and fresh and fits well with where the course is going in the future.

This is my final mock up. To be honest Im not really into it and I dont think its works well. I am more inclined to use my second template for our website.

Great new reel up for Paris based VFX artist/animator Mathieu Chardonnet

Brazilian art director produces based in NY has some great work like the one shown above taking an interesting and sort of disgusting take on the amount of food we waste. Check out his great portfolio of work here.

Another interesting thing I have noticed on VG Chartz is all the records kept about the amount of game consoles that have been sold world wide on the front page. The Nintendo DS is currently top ranked at 67.9%. In close second is the Nintendo Wii at 45%. 3rd is the XBOX360 at 33.2%. With the at 4th place PS3 at 21.9%. There are tons more records on the site so I recommend you go check it out.

The title sold a record 609,000 copies on its first day of release, generating an estimated £24.4m.The previous record holder was GTA: San Andreas, which sold 501,000 copies in 24 hours in October 2004.The game is tipped to break the opening week sales figures of Microsoft’s Halo 3, and pull in up to £201m.
The game currently has an average review score of 99.1%, according to Gamerankings.com, which amalgamates reviews from all publications.

On the 5th of May VG Chartz.com, the most comprehensive video gaming charts in the world, announced that Rockstar sold roughly 6 million copies of Grand Theft Auto IV during the first 5 days after the game’s release. 4 million gamers purchased the game day one.The game generated an estimated revenue of $390 million, exceeding Halo 3´s $280 million launch week.

Once I have finished my work and meet my deadline for Monday the 12th of May I will seriously be looking into getting an xbox and this game. Players are also able to play online with 16 players in total. That is amazing. I would really love to play with my friends on this game interactively and be apart of all the hype that surrounds this game.

Grand Theft Auto IV also had a big affect on hardware sales: Playstation 3 sales nearly doubled compared to the week before, while Xbox 360 sales jumped roughly 70%. It is considered the most expensive game of all time, with estimated development costs of $100 million. The game is likely to hit the 10 million units sales mark though during the next months.

Video game developers, the bar has been raised!

This is the sky bridge in langkawi, Malaysia, a stunning cable-stayed
bridge suspended, 687 meters above sea level. The structure relies on an 87 meter high support column to hold the weight of the deck which is distributed through 8 load
balancing cables attached to its head.

Personally I would be hard pushed to walk across this unique feat of engineering but still find it fascinating and give credit to the brave souls that walk across it. I find elevators in the underground taxing so this is simply out of the question.

Change the Thought

Really good mix of things on this site and updated regularly.
Contains Motion Graphics, Illustration, Graphic Design, Advertizing…pretty much everything you’d ever want. Really is worth a look.

FFFFOUND

Basically an image socialising bookmarking site. People have to be invited by members in order to become apart of it but they are they can stroll around the internet picking up there favourite images which can then be found on FFFFOUND under their section. As the site is updated daily there are also tones of amazing images on the site which can be viewed. Clicking on the image twice will take you to the page from which it came form so that you can view the rest of the site. Really great way of finding visually interesting images from literally everywhere on the internet.

Adgoodness

The tag line says it all: The best and sometimes the worst around the globe.

Studio 83

Very similar to FFFFOUND expect with studio83 anyone can sign up and have a go. You can also rate the images which is a nice way of browsing the most popular images found around the web.

The Inspiration Room

A really well designed website with a lot of great content. Also has a community base as well as job postings.

If you  have any other valuable sites of inspiration please let me know and I will add them to the list.

Tags: motiongraphics, After Effects, Graphics Design, Ideas, Adverstizing, Adverts, Art work, Photography, Inspiration, Best site, Art

One of the cleanest photography sites I have seen and even more stunning photography. We have all seen those high speed images of bullets been shot though various bits of fruit etc but Klimas took this idea and turned it to his own. And it works. Really great series of photographs that you need to view straight away. Your eyes have been warned.

The very talented Robert Hodgin, also known as Flight404, as part of the music video contest that Radiohead is having, produced this stunning piece of work. Be sure to check out he’s workings behind the project and as well as the actual video. It is simply stunning. Some may think it had been produced with the use of 3D software but in actual fact was produced with simple text code, unbelievable. You can view the 200MB Quicktime video here.
By no means let the fact that its 200MB scare you off, once yo watch it at that size and quality you’ll understand why you waited for the video to load!

Apple Gamma by Logan and Mark Romanek is a brilliant colourful update of the revolutionary early versions of the iTunes adverts. It is more upbeat, vivid in colour and just looks stunning altogether.
Below you can find one of the first iTunes adverts released. I think its fair to say that they have come on a long way since then but still maintain the feel of there original campaign. Well done Apple again and especially Logan.