Telescope is a visual sci-fi treat directed and edited by Colin Davis with the VFX mastery of Wes Ball (he of the wonderful post apocalyptic animation RUIN)
The year is 2183. Earth is dead. With all evidence of organic life lost, a cosmic archaeologist travels faster thanlight into deep space to capture images of the once vibrant planet. When his vessel is damaged he must take matters into his own hands, risking his life to witness humanity’s lost home.
This multi award-winning short by Yonni Aroussi & Ben Genislaw tells the future of a young couple moving in together for the first time.
Sesame Street it ain’t.
Let’s hope for both, eh?
A supercut of futuristic and predictive scenes from sci-fi movies by Eclectic Method
Blade Runner’s Megacities alongside A.I.’s flooded New York and Idiocracy’s run down shanty towns. Some technology predictions in these films have already proven to be accurate and some are still a ways off – or not! … cameras on every corner, oil shortages, massive cultural uprisings in the middle east, retinal scans, X-Rays, flying cars and hoverboards, hybrid humans, robots, A.I., teleportation and so on. Who really watches Sci-Fi for the plot anyway, you wanna see the goodness condensed.
Warriors and scientists join forces to save the world from an embittered humanoid robot in a dystopian Amsterdam.
OK, there’s nothing about that description we didn’t like, but Tears of Steel is a niftily executed sci-fi short in its own right. With the exception of a few lapses into ham and cheese, the VFX and storyline are great.
Just as impressive however, is the fact that the whole production was created using open-source tech and crowd-funding:
All computer effects in the film were modelled and animated using Blender, a suite of open-source 3D content creation tools.Tears of Steel was produced according to open source values. The film was financed with crowdfunding from Blender users, and everything created for the film, including all graphics and the film itself, are free to use and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution.
In short, a sci-fi that’s genuinely of the future.
If you’re a fan of animation, this is top-flight stuff right here.
Directed by Matthias Hoegg when he was a student at the Royal College of Art in 2010, Thursday is an elegant and charmingly-told story about patterns, predictability and how the future is not so different from the present.
It was BAFTA nommed in 2010. You’ll see why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fPrX7HcwWw
Microsoft OfficeLabs latest vision of the future of productivity.
Translucent. Paper thin. Touch sensitive.
Not an iPhone in sight.
A satirical but oddly plausible vision of the digitally-augmented future (originally posted in 2010, but currently doing the rounds again) by London/Tokyo based filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda:
Augmented Reality (AR) is an emerging technology defined by its ability to overlay physical space with information. It is part of a paradigm shift that succeeds Virtual Reality; instead of disembodied occupation of virtual worlds, the physical and virtual are seen together as a contiguous, layered and dynamic whole. It may lead to a world where media is indistinguishable from ‘reality’. The spatial organisation of data has important implications for architecture, as we re-evaluate the city as an immersive human-computer interface
(Thanks Carla)
