Spawn

Another year, another 3D Printed Stop Motion Animation:
 

Spawn (Vicious Cycles #2) from Wobbe on Vimeo.

Boom -> Bust

Boom -> Bust (Vicious Cycles #1) from Wobbe on Vimeo.

Logos or Logo's

Need to update my website in the not too distant future. As a first step I have been updating my logo's.

The Wtv (Wobble TV) logo (top right) is actually an update from the original one. Here is the new one, closer to the original original but cleaned up:

I took that and made that part of a more energy efficient light bulb for IdeePIX:

As I always tell my students, I am not a designer. But one does what one can.

And placing images in blogger is no fun…

Student Reel

Original WobbleTV Leader

I recently enjoyed a reunion with the people involved in a High School play we wrote and performed way back when. Which made me look through some old video tapes. I came across the first broadcast of Wobble TV, the videotape that did not get me in to Filmschool that year. I did get in a year later.

 

City.Flow() executed successfully

I have finally finished a video piece I started working on over half a decade ago. Mixed the audio over the weekend. Updating my website to include it right now. I used my students at Montclair as a test audience, and now "City.Flow()" can be now be added to my list of works created.

Here is a scene that I created for it in 2005 which I just put up on YouTube:

Eventually I will put the whole thing up on YouTube, though this type of imagery looses a lot of detail in the compression judging from how this one came back.

From the Wobble TV Archive

I had been planning to do this for a while, and since my new years resolution for 2009 was to stop procrastinating in 2010, I have uploaded some of my first computer animations to the WobbleTV YouTube channel.

This was my first ever character animation, created in 1999 using Houdini while I was a student at ACCAD. But it was not my first 3D animation ever. That I created some thirteen years earlier, at The Netherlands Film and Television Academy:

Back to the Future

By Leo Hourvitz, a friend from the SIGGRAPH Systems Managers team, I was alerted to YouTube user VintageCG who posted a plethora of clips from the early days of Computer Graphics. Which of course includes a lot of stuff from my Alma Mater ACCAD, like this 1982 demo reel for Cranston / Csuri productions

Real interesting stuff, amazing at the time, very crude and sometimes cheezy for todays standards. A great bit of history, my student should all see this stuff. Would it be possible to convince them that back then it was really hard to make anything in 3D?

I think it is about time I follow through with my plans to put my own vintage stuff on the WobbleTV YouTube Channel. I will keep y'all posted!

HAFF 09

Yesterday I was notified that my animation Seeing Red has been selected for the Holland Animation Film Festival 2009 Web competition. This contest was entered via YouTube:

The winner of the webcompetition will be revealed in the end of October. Also, the film will be screened at the Opening Ceremony of the festival on 4th of November 2009.

Wobulator

I found out about the existance of the wobuator through the announcement of the Forum Lecture Series Fall 2009 from the Department of Art and Design at Montclair State University (Tuesdays 2:30 to 4:20, Calcia Hall Room 135, Admission is Free). On October 13 [dNASAb] will speak. In his bio he claims to have "worked with the “Wobulator” Nam Jun Paik’s pioneering video synthesizer." I guess it is bad practice to retrocactively claim that when I came up with "Wobble TV" in 1984, I was inspired by the Paik Raster Manipulation Unit, right?

WobbleTV on YouTube

Today I uploaded two more animations to the WobbleTV YouTube Channel: Multi Dimensional Eye Virus 1.0 and version 2.2. I think I'll just slowly work my way back in time. Maybe I will eventually even upload the original WobbleTV Broadcast from way back when!

MetroCAF 2009 Call for Participation video

From the award winning entries to the previous two editions of MetroCAF, the local student animation festival I am chairing this year, I edited this promotional video. Since Google Video is no longer accepting uploads, I now also have a YouTube account (hurray, another username and password!) with the name that I used for my early video work: Wobble TV.

The music is "Wake up" by bluebottle, a creative commons file I found on ccMixter.org

UPDATE: Found out I actually have two YouTube accounts: you can simply sign on with your Google account. Aargh! Anyway, also put my last latest animation "Seeing Red" on YouTube. In HD!