Bowerbirds: November and December
January 2, 2014Video Bits,Motion,Featured,Autofuss,Live Actionabstract,music,olive,video,series,short,Olivari,oil,Bowerbirds,clip
With the end of 2013, Olivari's One Year of Little campaign came to a close. In December we published the final episodes of many of the series created for this project. Here are two final videos for Bowerbirds: November and December.
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Bowerbirds: October
October 30, 2013Autofuss,Video Bits,Featured,MotionC4D,4D,shader,mountain,clip,song,Bowerbirds,oil,Olivari,cinema,video,olive,music,Maxon,Adobe,After Effects
This month's meditative, repeating and almost zen-like song called for something slower and relaxing. Paint drying and grass growing felt too cliche, so we settled on having a mountain range erect over the course of the song. This was also the first Bowerbirds clip where I decided to take my hands off the keyboard and let my very talented team do some work.
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Bowerbirds: September
October 3, 2013Autofuss,Live Action,Featured,Motion,Video Bitsfire,desert,CMY,CMYK,clip,song,Bowerbirds,oil,Olivari,audio,matte,RGB,channel,video,olive,music,transition
This is the very last Bowerbirds video I will be doing myself. While we still have a few more to go, they will be created and animated by the very talented members of my team as opposed to my 100% hands-on approach I cultivated so far.
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Bowerbirds: August
August 16, 2013Live Action,Autofuss,Video Bits,Featured,Motionlights,trees,forrest,the last of us,firefly,fireflies,clip,Bowerbirds,oil,video,music,ink,transition,water,shine,particles
Fireflies in an early evening.... It's probably no surprise that this video was vastly inspired by amazing photography of Yume Cyan. We combined simulated particle fireflies created with custom aperture sprites with a footage of the forrest and then revealed it with the mattes shot specifically for this project (as usual).
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Bowerbirds: July
July 26, 2013Featured,Live Action,Autofuss,MotionMilky Way,orbit,satellite,stop motion kit,song,kit,stop,space,stop motion,animation,motion,sun,video,music,moon
For the July Bowerbirds clip, I decided to try something new. I created a realistic model of the Moon, based on the elevation maps gathered by NASA and animated the illumination phases as the light (the Sun) traveled around in. Having been recently turned onto the Mystery Science Theater 3000 by Conor, I then stylized it to look and feel like a stop motion project from the early days of Sci-Fi.
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Bowerbirds: May
May 24, 2013Featured,Live Action,Autofuss,Video Bits,Motionmonsoon,windmill,yellow,magenta,cyan,CMYK,mixing,inks,clip,song,Bowerbirds,oil,Olivari,SplatterType,type,splatter,nature,paper,clouds,video,olive,music,colors,reveal,color,loop
It's a new month (well, almost the end of it) and a new Bowerbirds song time. This time I have used some of the techniques quite familiar to the followers of my tutorial series. The overarching principle remains the same - a video loop revealed by mixing Cyan, Magenta and Yellow inks. It's quite a jump from the April one and we're already brewing some ideas for June :)
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Bowerbirds: April
April 30, 2013Video Bits,Motion,Featured,Autofussloop,olive,video,Autofuss,McCann,twofifteen,215,Olivari,oil,web film
Inspired by the cross-processed photos and CMYK printing, I have developed a visual effect for "digital polaroid", based on the ink bleed transitions and used it to reveal the video over the course of a three minute song.
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Little Things with Long Domains
October 31, 2013Motion,Autofuss,Live Actionloop,little,video,animated,live action,GIF,thing,cinemagraph,zen,meditation,endless
It's safe to say 2013 had a lot of Olivari in it. From the slow motion series, through all the Bowerbirds videos, adventures of Oli; we have created tons of content for the brand's Year of Little campaign. One of the series I previously did not publicize on QubaHQ was Little Things with Long Domains - a series of 12 infinite loops about some of the small joys of life.
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