Motion graphics designer Peter Quinn showcases his favourite showreels of the last year.
Above: The reels of Latvian motion graphics house PANIC and Slovenian digital creative Nejc, aka Twisted Poly.
SEE THE REST: 11 of the best showreels from 2015 (motionographer)
Behold the full, tiled glory of it here.
Arcus Motion Analyzer – currently in development and funding on Kickstarter – is a ring-sized, water resistant motion tracking device that also recognises gestures.
Feeding back in real time via a Bluetooth connection, multiple devices can be worn to generate complex data and metrics.
German/Hungarian graphic designer David ‘Davidope’ Szakaly – one of the world’s leading proponents of the hypnotic gif.
Should your melon be insufficiently twisted, check out many more examples here.
Beauty: a masterclass in subtle digital animation directed by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro who sez:
A series of well selected images from the tradition of pictorial beauty are appropriated, (from the renaissance to the symbolism of the late 1800s, through Mannerism, Pastoralism, Romanticism and Neo-classicism) with the intention of retracing the sentiment beneath the veil of appearance.
A series of short motion-capture idents for the CCTV documentary channel created by Taiwanese design house JL Design and KORB.
Tastiest in full screen with HD on.
Related: Street Fighter Motion Capture
Turkish artist and photographer Erdal Inci:
…has created a hypnotic series of GIFs that takes the concept of cloned motion to a truly eerie level. Often using images of himself in mundane situations, Inci transforms simple snapshots into entrancing video loops.
Many more here.
Fluidic – an interactive light sculpture – is a collabortation between Hyundai’s Advanced Design Center and WHITEvoid studio in Berlin.
12,000 suspended spheres form a ‘three dimensional pixel’ array, 3D cameras sense the motion of observers and translate these into light patterns using high-speed lasers. WHITEvoid describes it thus:
…a seemingly floating point cloud above a water pond and consisting of 12,000 translucent spheres marks the heart of the installation. Due to a complex computer algorithm the spheres are arranged seemingly random within the cloud. At the same time the algorithm observes the positions and projection angles of eight high-speed laser projectors that are being arranged around the artwork. They are sending out beams scanning through the arrangement of the cloud. Generating bright and dim light points, this creates a highly organic and natural distribution of voxels (3D pixels). Emerging lines and shapes finally form graphical compositions without any sweet or blind spots. Keeping the same density and intensity the FLUIDIC graphics enables their viewers to observe and interact with it from every point of view.
Currently on display at the Temporary Museum For New Design in Milan.
The sleek, minimalist Leap Motion Control Device (available to pre-order for $70) creates a 0.23 cubic meter (8 cubic feet) 3D motion-interactive space.
The manufacturer claims it’s 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market.
Witchcraft.
