Friday 29 May 2009

New Storyboards Website Launched

Storyboards are proud to announce the launch of the brand new shiny Storyboards website with cool videos of our animatics and an even cooler jam packed portfolio stuffed with work from our dedicated team. Check all this out and more at www.storyboards.co.uk

Firefox Download Helper


Download helper is a fantastic add on for Firfox that lets you pull video's from streaming sites such as youtube and save them into most formats. This little addition to firefox is incredible simple to use and works straight out the box. You can download it here, install in literally one minute and then your off!

Thursday 28 May 2009

Simpsons Manga


These bizarre versions of the famous family are loving rendered by Nina Matsumoto also known as "Spacecoyote" whose work has achieved some of the highest hits on the popular digital arts forum devientART. Her work has now been recognised by Matt Groening himself and she does pencil work for a short manga style version of the Simpsons as well as numerous manga comics winning "Best New OEL Manga" for Yokaiden, winner of the "Outstanding Science Fiction Comic" in 2004, nominated "Best Short Story" at the Eisner Award of this year for Murder He Wrote, plus she's still working on her personal projects and she's only 24! Be sure to head over deveintART to see her portfolio.

Peoples’ Voice Film

Tuesday 26 May 2009

Digimods

Welcome to the art of Digimods, a small community for that unique group of photoshop geek/boy racer types where all vehicles no matter how big or small are subject to a graphical modifications ranging from the sleek to the absurd. On the site (see here) you will even find tutorials and guide on how to make your ride worthy of car of the month. On a basic level the process is relatively simple, after selecting an appropriate car the artist must google like mad to find the right photos of mods and accessories (of course all must be at the correct angle) and then bledding them onto your car using the array of tools PS has to offer. Check out the page for some truly bizarre mods.

Friday 15 May 2009

Make the Girls Dance - Baby, Baby, Baby

French electro group Make The Girl Dance releases their new video for the hit single, Baby, Baby, Baby. Definitely something out of the ordinary, the video offers an in-depth look into the City of Paris and the women that embrace it. Check it out!

Thursday 14 May 2009

Wii Spray

WiiSpray Teaser from Martin Lihs on Vimeo.


The Wii Spray is a the result of some rather ingenous German students using the Wii-mote fixed into the Wii-Spray digital spray can to deliever a more realistic graffitti experience. Just need a few digital policemen to chase the artist away now!
More info Here.

This Amazing hand art was constructed by Guiddo Danielle, an Italian artist who specialises in different painting techniques. Some of the recent hand images you see were uses on the WWF campaign "Give a hand to wildlife". To see more of his work including his trompe l'oeil (more on this soon) just click here!

Friday 8 May 2009

Perfect Wave Shot

Explosions in the Sky

Explosions in the Sky is Storyboards new favorite band, "Band of the Month" I guess you would call it. The Texas based bands unique intrimental tracks feature melodic narative journeys which are backed up by emotional live performances. The band is made up of three guitarists and one drummer, with no "leader" of the band and all members colaborating on each song, the sense of unity and respect is very apparent in the music.

Playing for Change

playingforchange.com - From the award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music", comes the first of many "songs around the world" being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it travelled the globe. This and other songs such as "One Love" will be released as digital downloads soon; followed by the film soundtrack and DVD early next year.

Sign up at playingforchange.com for updates and exclusive content and join the Movement to help build schools, connect students, and inspire communities in need through music.

Thursday 7 May 2009

Lance Armstrong's Shepard Fairey Designed Trek Bike


This Trek bike for Lance Armstrong was designed by Shepard Fairey, with a detailed design throughout the whole bike it was timely process creating this project. This video shows the making of the bike and how long and hard the whole process was.

New Coke Summer Ad


Storyboards, loves the new coke ad due to break at the end of this month replacing the old "coke side of life" strap line with "Open happiness". The ad features bizarre furry creatures who burst into song as coke is fed to them via spray nozzles above thier heads.... well it's a case of action speaking louder than words so be sure to check out another Mother delight at campaignlive.co.uk/thework. Expect these creatures to be invading our homes all summer long.

Wednesday 6 May 2009

Recycled Typography


Dismantling old signs and turning each letter into a lamp was the idea Character came up with. Once a letter was separated from the sign, it would have to be cleaned and LED lights added to create these cool lamps. The promotional pictures look amazing using the lamps to light up the environment in which it was placed.


You can view more pictures over at Toxel.

What do teens want?


It's a never ending answer but this article by the Sydney Morning Herald opens up some intersting ideas about the teen tech market. Not longer is geek uncool but instead rapidly becoming a the most popular tribe to be in.

TEENS ON TECH: WHAT'S HOTTER?

* 93 per cent say internet rather than TV.

* 71 per cent say texting rather than instant messaging.

* 69 per cent say magazines rather than blogs.

* 65 per cent say Mac rather than the PC.

* 57 per cent say Facebook rather than MySpace.

Tuesday 5 May 2009

Celeste Prize 2009


The Celeste Prize has been a national competition in several different countries including UK Germany and Italy, but now for the first time in 2009 the Celeste Prize is opening its doors to the international market. It is organized by a non-profit cultural association in Italy, which has no sponsors and is entirely dependent on the goodwill and subscriptions made by artists. Celeste Prize 2009 awards 40,000 euro in 5 categories: Live Media, Video & Animation, Installation & Sculpture, Photography & Digital graphics, and Painting. Why not give it a shot? If you are interseted you can find all the details on the Celeste Prize website which is unsurprisingly: www.celesteprize.com

Tarantino Mix


Chopping footage from Tarantino films, Electric Method were able to create this cool video, using the sound from the clips to create beats over the top of carefully selected music.