I remember watching the MTV Video Music Awards this year and taking note of the beautiful transitional video pieces shown on screen. I had no idea who made them at the time, but I made a note on Twitter about how lovely they all seemed. It turns out that an LA-based graphics design company named Prologue are responsible for the look and they’ve been working with MTV on the Video Music Awards motion graphics for the past 3 years.
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, head on over to Motionographer to watch all of Prologue’s VMA videos back to back. Is it weird that MTV asked an LA company to do NYC-related video promos?
Peter Belanger created this stop-motion video that shows just how much work goes into created a Macworld magazine cover. The video goes from shooting, to editing, and then to production and finally to the final product which is a print version of the magazine cover. [via]
This video just made me really miss working at a magazine.
Peter Roe has an amazing showreel in HD on Vimeo and in the showreel he shows us how he constructed a short little video piece about a robot having an encounter with a lighthouse. The robot story really is really cute. Watch it below (it’s the first video in the showreel).
I was really looking foward to the Astroy Boy movie even if it was being made by IMAGI, the same studio that did the incredibly bad Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in CGI. But now it looks like I won’t be able to see the film any time soon because Cartoon Brew is reporting that IMAGI has officially stopped work on Astro Boy in order to refocus efforts on Gatchaman and Tusker (2 other films they have in production). If the studio doesn’t get more funding somehow, it looks like we won’t be seeing Astro Boy on the big screen (at least not from IMAGI…which could be a good thing).
Ugly Betty has been filming on my street (directly across from my front door) since late Friday afternoon and into early Saturday morning. I stood outside to watch the whole crew do their magic and I ended up seeing America Ferrera.
I don’t watch Ugly Betty, but I can tell you that this “West Side Falafel” restaurant is part of the TV show because this is the 2nd time they’ve come here in the past couple of months to film this location. If you’re curious, the “West Side Falafel” is actually a Japanese sushi restaurant in real life called Izumi.
