Color - Animated shorts sizzling with knowledge

I came across this series with highly effective animated shorts about color. Every transition is a joy to see and the content magnificent.

And read about the subject over at CNN

Take a look at learn a lot!

Colorscope is a series on CNN that explores our perception of color and its use across cultures, one shade at a time. Inspired by our love for The Purple One we chose the last color on the spectrum, a marriage of opposites, a mixture between the hottest color and the coldest. http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/04/health/colorscope-purple/index.html For full credits visit buck.tv

We love CNN's Colorscope series, and were very excited to be asked to contribute. Here is everything you ever wanted to know about pink, but were afraid to ask. See the other colours here: www.cnn.com/colorscope ----- CREDITS Client: CNN Creative Producer: Sarah-Grace Mankarious Directed by Giant Ant Creative Direction: Jay Grandin Producer: Liam Hogan Storyboard: Conor Whelan, Jay Grandin, Marion Bordeyne, Eric Pautz Art Direction: Eric Pautz Illustration & Visual Development: Eric Pautz, Marion Bordeyne, Conor Whelan, Shawn Hight, Sitji Chou, Whitney Lam Animation Direction: Conor Whelan Animation: Conor Whelan, Shawn Hight, Chris Anderson, Henrique Barone, Matt James, Taylor Peters, Whitney Lam Compositing: Conor Whelan, Eric Pautz Sound Design: Bryan Stone

Short history of the colour black made for CNN as part of their Colorscope series. Direction, Design and Animation by Matt Abbiss Produced by Sarah-Grace Mankarious Animation by Marta Reis Andrade Sound Design by Bryan Stone Music by Giacomo Smith 2017

YELLOW is part of the Colorscope series by CNN. "They call it mellow yellow". The short documentaries about different colours shows us on this episode how the colour yellow makes us happy, is on the most visibles hues and it's relation with science and religion. Created by Sebastián Baptista Producer: Sarah-Grace Mankarious Writer and Narrator: Dr. James Fox Music: Giacomo Smith Sound Design: Bryan Stone Special thanks to: Andy, Pini & Javi

The Dark Truth Behind White Working with CNN I directed and animated an episode of Colorscope, a series exploring the secret truths behind colour. Client - CNN Production - Sarah-Grace Mankarious Direction / Animation - Jocie Juritz Writing / Narration - Dr James Fox http://edition.cnn.com/specials/arts/colorscope-series http://www.jociejuritz.co.uk/CNN-white

"Green, the mixture of blue and yellow, can be seen everywhere and in countless shades. In fact, the human eye sees green better than any color in the spectrum. But why is that?" I teamed up (once again) with the amazing Rafael Mayani for this short piece commissioned by CNN International to explain the so-familiar colour, green. Producer: Sarah-Grace Mankarious Written and Narrated by Dr. James Fox Animation: Jorge R. Canedo E. Design: Rafael Mayani Music: Giacomo Smith Sound Design: Bryan Stone

"Blue is the world's favourite colour" We worked with CNN and Dr. James Fox to produce a film for their Colour Scope series. See the website here: http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2016/12/specials/colorscope-blue/ Produced by Sarah-Grace Mankarious & Moth Direction & Design by Moth Animation by Moth, Joe Bichard, Jennifer Zheng, Aaron Lampert, Carlos De Faria, Stephen McNally, Ester Rossi Sound Design by David Kamp Music by Giacomo Smith Client - CNN Production Year - 2016

The 8th episode of CNN Colorscope explores the allure of Gold; worshiped by pharoahs, Aztecs and millennials alike. See the series on cnn.com/colorscope Producer: Sarah-Grace Mankarious Writer and Narrator: Dr. James Fox Director and Animator: Tim Booth Music: Giacomo Smith Sound Design: Bryan Stone

Colorscope is an award-winning series exploring our perception of color and its use across cultures one shade at a time. Orange is the colour of sunsets, budget airlines, traffic cones and protestants, but it can also be toxic…! http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/06/health/colorscope-orange/index.html Credits Writer and Narrator: Dr. James Fox Producer: Sarah-Grace Mankarious Production Company: Nexus Studios Director: Emmanuelle Walker Producer: Greet Kallikorm Production Assistant: Islay Leefe-Griffiths Executive Producer: Chris O’Reilly, Charlotte Bavasso Production Company: Nexus Studios Studio Lead: Elliott Kajdan Art Direction: Emmanuelle Walker Animators: Claudio Salas, Emanuele Romano, Pierre Rutz, Emmanuelle Walker Motion Graphics: Elliott Kajdan, Abel Kohen, Emmanuelle Walker Sound Design: John Black Music: Giacomo Smith

I worked with CNN on their second film for the Colour Scope series. The bar was set super high after the amazing job Moth Studio made on the first piece. Direction and Design by Abel Reverter Produced by Sarah-Grace Mankarious Animation by Abel Reverter Music by Giacomo Smith Sounds Design by Bryan Stone VO by Dr. James Fox Special thanks to the amazing Katie Menzies, Fabian Friedrich, David Elósegui and everyone that helped giving advice during the process at Pamplona 89. All the episodes at cnn.com/colorscope Client - CNN 2017

https://vimeo.com/channels/colorscope

Tip for equalize / balance in textures in Photoshop

Sometimes your texture is almost 100% seamless and tileable. But small differences in light and shadow easily show that this is a tiled texture and it's a 3D image.  As humans we always look for patterns and they are easily spotted and by equalizing the texture you make it more believable.

You find the free texture pack here:

If you have a material suggestion, write it in the comments :)

Sometimes your texture is almost 100% seamless and tileable. But small differences in light and shadow easily show that this is a tiled texture and it's a 3D image. As humans we always look for patterns and they are easily spotted and by equalizing the texture you make it more believable.

Repetition

I came across this video on repetition and why we should do it to learn. In school we are often presented with an idea/concept ones. Maybe repeated ones more if we're tested on the subject and no more. That knowledge doesn't stick. So my tip is find resources presented from different angles and repeat. And see this video :)

Cover Photo by WonHo Sung on Unsplash

Fabulous Fabric with Object ID maps

Poliigon has started creating fabric textures with Object ID maps. They add a more convincing look on your fabric, and they are really easy to create your self. In Arnold render you can connect these to the coat layer in standard surface and I really like the result that gives.

I show how I used it to create a wool material for a Hiroshima Chair by Naoto Fukasawa.

If you have a material suggestion, write it in the comments :)

Here is the free Fleece texture: https://www.poliigon.com/texture/2332
(and I have nothing to do with their site :)

Cinema 4D https://www.maxon.net/en/
Arnold Render https://www.solidangle.com/
Photoshop/Illustrator http://www.adobe.com/

Poliigon has started creating fabric textures with Object ID maps. They add a more convincing look on your fabric, and they are really easy to create your self. In Arnold render you can connect these to the coat layer in standard surface and I really like the result that gives.

Added new videos

I've added more of the videos I've made late 2016 - 2017.

Fist a short project I did for the talented Miss Tati. It's a simple lyric video with illustrations made by Robert Høyem.

Song produced by Ivar Thormodsæter Video by JHåland, Jørgen Håland http://www.jhaland.com/ Illustrations by Overhaus, Robert Høyem http://www.overhaus.no/

One for CityBox. That's an animation peace that I did for my good friends at Overhaus. It's not often I do character animation so even tho it's 2D it were a surprisingly difficult project.

At Citybox we're all about modernization and innovation. We've thrown out minibars, bellboys, TV sets and room service. As a result we offer modern and affordable hotel rooms, with free wi-fi and self service check in, located in the centre of the city.

I made a promovideo for my own product PolarWhite, when I released a new pack called PolarWhite Tables.

PolarWhite is a MockUp collection with 46 different scenes ready to use for Photoshop CS6 and up. Simple to change designs with smart objects, fill color masks and wireframes for precision work. Promovideo music by William French https://soundcloud.com/williamfrenchmusic I really needed a presentation tool for my design and I found one by Shaan Shiv Suleman called Ebony & Ivory branding MockUp.

This video were one of many videos I did for Kind conceptual branding while I were employed over there the fall of 2016. I did the product renders and animation. At Kind I were turned in to a button clicker, and weren't what it ought to be, and I went back to freelancing when I got some new opportunities. 

Arnold Ice Material Tutorial - Using Cinema 4d, Arnold Render, B2M & Photoshop - Texture02

In this tutorial I show how to create an ice material for Arnold Render. In photoshop I make the material base based on a picture. It's made square and seamless for ease of use. Then processed in Bitmap2Material to create different texture maps. Then mixed together in Arnold Render.

In this tutorial I show how to create an ice material for Arnold Render. In photoshop I make the material base based on a picture. It's made square and seamless for ease of use. Then processed in Bitmap2Material to create different texture maps. Then mixed together in Arnold Render.

This is a little more advanced then the first material tutorial, and hope you like it.

Cinema 4D
Arnold Render
Anders Langalands
Bitmap2Material
Photoshop

Lottie - The new way of doing web and app animation

Sometimes you get to try a technique that changes the way you ser new possibilities.

This time it's Lottie. A converter tool created by Airbnb. Yes, that Airbnb.

You can create your animations in After Effects, and by keeping it to simple shapes, masks and keyframes for the animation (no effects supported).

It uses the Json creator tool called Bodymovin that are pluged into After Effects, and Lottie is on the other end handling the app part.

I used it on the Vibble app opening animation. A simple logo reveal for the easy DJing app.

The system have some huge limitations that I've came across . Like inverted mask. That's a no go.
In the logo reveal case I needed subtracting forms, but that didn't work, and I ended making tinytiny bridges that connects the different part, and create one single form. This isn't noticeable for the viewer, but adds an extra step to the process. If possible use layered shapes that are overlapping with it's own fill.

So it's early days, but it's new possibilities on the horizon. And the file sizes are tiiiiny. Like 9 kb for this animation. 

You can get the Vibble app in the iOS app store.

I created this short and sweet logo reveal for the Vibble app, an app that simplify DJing

The mobile phone is out of coverage

I really like video essays. Stories from for instance the Nerdwriter, Vox, Every frame a Painting & more. They explain different phenomenon's in bite size length, that can grab you and make you think about the content.

In this video Beyond the Frame, a new essayist I've come across, he talk about a film making subject that seems to be a hurdle for many screen writers: how to deal with the mobile phone in the story? The smartphone often breaks down, out of coverage or other obstructions that remove the tool we more or less use every day, staring at all the time (anecdotal but probably true for most), remove it out of the story.

I just saw La la Land and most of the problems could be solved by just simple mobile communication, just send a text or similar. Maybe a bit boring, but more realistic. But removing the smartphone can be seen as a missed opportunity.

I'm fascinated by economy in storytelling so this one scene from Better Things struck a chord with me. Pamela Adlon managed to tell plenty with a simple variation of three shots. This was the starting point for an investigation of how she did it, why it worked and what does it mean in the current panorama of film and TV.