Centripetal Notion: category

This movie looks sick. Using motion capture the actors’ movements are recorded, including eye-lid flutters via electrooculography, enabling the entire movie to be live acted yet completely computer animated. It will be simultaneously released in traditional theaters and IMAX 3D. (…)

Opens November 16.

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Wherein space exploration, by the year 2050, becomes entirely funded by a corporate merger between Google, Amazon and Second Life.

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A ton of really excellent graphic and motion design for film and television, specifically sweet futuristic-looking computer interfaces and information visualizations. By Mark Coleran.

Trulia Hindsight takes property construction data and animates the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities in the US over the last couple centuries.

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This is the kind of thing that, in several years given more advanced animation, more interesting music, and a more generous budget, could become mind-blowingly cool. Not that it isn’t already cool but I’m thinking more along the scale of Fantasia 2010.

29 year old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is an attractive but modest Japanese research psychotherapist whose work is on the cutting edge of her field. Her alter-ego is a stunning and fearless 18 year old “dream detective,” code named PAPRIKA, who can enter into people’s dreams and synchronize with their unconscious to help uncover the source of their anxiety or neurosis.

Freaking delicious. This TV spot was created with Processing for the launch of the Audi TT in Australia; direction/concept by Matt Pyke, programming/sound by Karsten Schmidt.