{"id":12635,"date":"2008-01-26T15:47:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T15:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/01\/skaters-in-slow-mo-with-explosions.html"},"modified":"2008-01-26T15:47:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T15:47:32","slug":"skaters_in_slow_mo_with_explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/26\/skaters_in_slow_mo_with_explosions\/","title":{"rendered":"Skaters in slow-mo, with explosions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Decks &amp; Bombs &amp; Rock n&#8217; Roll<\/em>: Peep the amazing intro to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifelounge.com\/Best-Skate-Video-Intro-Ever.aspx\">Lakai&#8217;s Fully Flared<\/a> skateboarding video.&#160; (Okay, no rock here, but the grandiose score &amp; slow motion really do it for me.)&#160; I&#8217;d love to see a higher-res version of this clip, but for that apparently you need to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turntablelab.com\/video\/0\/0\/35823.html\">buy the DVD<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.veer.com\/archives\/001785.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p>In other animation\/motion graphics news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yannick Puig&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yanim.net\/ilotm\/ilotm.htm\">I Lived On the Moon<\/a> is just unreasonably great-looking, loaded with memorable character designs in a melancholy palette.&#160; His site contains a good deal of behind-the-scenes info on how he created storyboards, then used Photoshop, After Effects, and 3ds Max to realize the vision. [<a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2007\/07\/13\/i-lived-on-the-moon\/\">Via<\/a>]&#160; A few of the visuals recall Jamie Caliri&#8217;s similarly wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/02\/united_dragon.html\">Dragon ad for United<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>On the other end of the tech spectrum is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6Jfcpa_x4Lg\">Fantoche<\/a>, a rather nightmarish stop-motion sequence crawling across a bathroom wall.&#160; [Via Frederick Johnson]&#160; I can&#8217;t find much in the way of credits, but I imagine it&#8217;s connected to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantoche.ch\/07\/index.php\">animation festival of the same name<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Hamburg-based <a href=\"http:\/\/sehsucht.de\/html\/index.html\">Sehsucht<\/a> has created a hypnotic &amp; painterly animation for the <a href=\"http:\/\/motionographermedia.com\/sehsucht\/sehsucht_autotrophy2007.mov\">20 Jahre Auto Trophy<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/motionographer.com\/2007\/12\/21\/sehsucht-auto-trophy-2007\/\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Toolfarm features an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/toolfarm.com\/wonderpets.html\">Jim Geduldick of Wonder Pets<\/a>, discussing his work on that AE-powered show. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decks &amp; Bombs &amp; Rock n&#8217; Roll: Peep the amazing intro to Lakai&#8217;s Fully Flared skateboarding video.&#160; (Okay, no rock here, but the grandiose score &amp; slow motion really do it for me.)&#160; I&#8217;d love to see a higher-res version of this clip, but for that apparently you need to buy the DVD. [Via] In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}