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Thursday, June 30, 2005

Fredo's Fridays 22

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FEATURED VIDEO

DUCKLING
SPEEDING HURTS

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This Danish production studio releases an impressive video "Speeding Hurts". The greenscreening and post images give a great insight to their smoke and mirrors.

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AERO
BUBBLE GIRL

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Psyop from NY delivers yet another slick piece for Aero's bubble bar. Have you felt the bubbles melt?

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MOTION THEORY
CALIFORNIA VIDEO PRODUCTION

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"Motion Theory creates at the convergence of filmmaking, design, animation, and visual effects."

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TRANSISTOR STUDIOS
VIDEO NY/CA

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I posted these guys a few months back but they deserve to be linked again with this new site relaunch and fresh new content. Be sure to check out the reels of Justin Harder, Bradley Grosh, and Anders Schroeder.

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CAFE FX
FX REEL

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"CaféFX built Sin City from the ground up, borrowing from the original comic panels, taking their own photos of period L.A. architecture and studying urban scenes from the film noir genre."

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FLASH SITES


WEST COAST CHOPPERS
REDESIGN

TheMill

Jesse James and the bunch relaunch WCC with a new hybrid flash/html site.

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NOVEMBER
THE MOVIE

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Slick site for the November movie.

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GEOTERRA
GENERAL ELECTRIC

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Blitz Studios out of Cali released this beautifully illustrative site with games that actually got me to stick around longer than five seconds.

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GREY GOOSE VODKA
HI-RES FINGERPRINT

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We are starting to see more and more of these z-axis zoom effect sites. This one however, created by the highly acclaimed Hi-Res Studio, has a nice elegant touch that sets it apart.

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Friday, June 10, 2005

Fredo's Fridays 21 - 3D

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FEATURED

THE CRAZY FROG
RINGTONE RIOT

NN

Crazy Frog is the marketing title of a ring tone based on The Annoying Thing, a computer animation created by Erik Wernquist. The animation was originally created to accompany a sound effect produced by Daniel Malmedahl whilst attempting to imitate the sound of a two-stroke moped engine also known as the Insanity Test. In 2004, Jamster released the song as a ringtone. Across Europe in May 2005, "Axel F" went straight to number one on the UK charts, with some of the best weekly sales outselling the debut of Coldplay. Watch the hilarious video of this remix to the 1985 instrumental theme of Beverly Hills Cop movie.

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THE EMBASSY
V/FX STUDIO

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This highly acclaimed visual effects studio from Vancouver, Canada is a major force in the 3d/VFX industry. Working in major film titles and high level commercials from I,Robot to Nike and the Matrix, these guys have enough render power to make your toes pop (whatever that means).

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BLUR
SOFTWARE/ANIMATION/VFX

LL

Blur has always amazed me not only in their ability to do strong commercial work with Gaming Cinematics, movie V/FX, and animation, but also with their Brazil product which produces some incredible renders from 3d Studio Max.

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THE MILL
V/FX

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I know I have mentioned The Mill before, but they deserve another link for their entire site. The undisputed VFX champion studio from the UK (and now NY) has talent coming out of their.......ears. Don't miss a single project from this impressive portfolio. It's all bueno.

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DIGITAL DOMAIN GROUP
VFX STUDIO

Barb

Do you guys remember that scene in Lord of The Rings where the Liv Taylor elf summoned the water horse spirits down the river to wash away the evil minions in hoodies?...Well, this is the studio responsible for such a marvelous spectacle. Oh yeah... and they did work on other high level work too, just go.

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iMAGINARY fORCES
IF

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It all started with the movie "Seven". After that it was history for Kyle Cooper and his funky bunch. The masters of title sequences, an art started by the late Saul Bass in the movie Psycho. Ever time you watch a movie and you say "wow, the way they made the cast and title text come up on the screen was wayyy dope!", chances are, Imaginary Forces has left a finger print. These guys are also delving into interactive design and what not... their flash site is nice eyecandy tambien.

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MISC


Major studios we all know:

Industrial Light and Magic - George Lucas
Pixar Studios - Steve Jobs, Brad Bird and John Lasseter
Blue Sky Studios - Fox Entertainment (Ice Age, Robots)
Dreamworks - SKG (Spielberg, Kutzenberg, Geffen)- makers of Shrek
DNA Studios - Nickelodeon (Jimmy Neutron)

Thursday, June 02, 2005

Fredo's Fridays 20

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FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHY

NICK KNIGHT
UPDATE

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The man behind last week's Christian Dior's photography. Here he experiments with explosives and humans in one setting for Numero 50 magazine. Be sure to check out his other works along with the other photographers'.

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ALBRECHT GERLACH
PHOTO

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Sweet new site from Design Studio "Group 94". They always seem to make everything so simple into something great.

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LUNK LUND
PHOTO AGENCY

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The top photography agency in Stockholm, Sweden. Established in 1994. Photographers, stylists, prop stylists, set design, food stylists, hair, make up and high quality stock photography.

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FLASH SITES


HAVAIANAS
ILLUSTRATION/ANIMATION DELIGHT

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This isn't your ordinary flip flop showcase... the animations and illustration will enchant you to buy, buy, buy! Take your flip flop and drag it around the site to watch the entire thing animate and build itself... then buy flip flops and you are set for the summer.

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THE BARBARIAN GROUP
BANNER AD DESIGN

Barb

I know I posted "banner ad design", but these guys are the studs behind The Subserviant Chicken viral campaign for BK which they named, the most successful online campaign ever! So go look at their banner ad designs and chicken work.

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VIDEO DESIGN


REXONA
FOR OVER-THE-TOP PROTECTION

TheMill

This sweet commercial done by UK's best, The Mill, is definitely one of their best.

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UNITED
THE BULB

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Nice illustrative commercial for United Airlines.

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