York Digital Media student Jonathon Asperjan found this video by motion graphic artist Esteban Diácono, following our latest Dream tech lab on Friday, in which we discussed both particle effects and interactive sound and visuals:
Two more videos by Diácono. The first is concept development for a Lionhead game called Fable: The Journey: "The idea was to create a two hand Kinect-based combat system.... They were keen about the idea of moving away from the traditional game 'magic effects'. I designed a two hand combat system in which you mix mechanical and organic elements to engage and kill your enemies. The design didn't fully make into the game, but the whip-and-slash element actually did it, which was a great pleasure. Box of Toys provided an incredible monoaural audio track for the animations."
And this one, for the neoclasical Icelandic musician Ólafur Arnalds (whose music also features in the first video), I just liked for its two-and-a-half-D visual playfulness:
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Investigating treatments for shadow magic, I also came across this 3D calligraphy from TeamLab (previously featured in the post Dancing with Pixels):
Once more, with goldfish:
And a longer, more surreal exploration of ink-shadows, which kinda recall Kinect Graffiti and My Secret Heart from the original Fun with Particles post:
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Addendum: following this post, Aaron McLean tipped us to the work of Matthias Müller: