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Shibuya Neon Poster

I am trying to juxtapose images from Shibuya (Tokyo) in a graphically interesting and unconventional way.

It’s already a very busy scene, so I did a few things to abstract things and simplify it:

– use a system of masks and blurs to make the neon signs more painterly

– simplify the outlines of the people and then use only the edges

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: art, tokyo, hd and effects

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Chrome on Chrome

Reflection upon reflection, using displacement mapping to further distort reflections in a shiny sculpture.

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: art and sculpture

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From Mission Bay to the De Young

Timelapse of the drive from Mission Bay to the De Young museum in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

Used an improvised vehicle mount, hence somewhat shaky quality on some of the city streets…

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: timelapse and sanfrancisco

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Sunrise over Oakland

Sunrise over Oakland (SF Bay Area), seen from the Mission Bay neighborhood. It’s a timelapse, 2 hours compressed into 1 minute.

Other than the sunrise and the clouds, I like watching the ship swinging at anchor in the bay, and the frantic movements of the tugboats.

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: timelapse

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Sunrise over Oakland

Sunrise over Oakland

Sunrise over Oakland (SF Bay Area), seen from the Mission Bay neighborhood. It’s a timelapse, 2 hours compressed into 1 minute.

Other than the sunrise and the clouds, I like watching the ship swinging at anchor in the bay, and the frantic movements of the tugboats.

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

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Pink Alien Landscape

An animated alien landscape painting.

All art drawn by me in Art Rage, then animated in After Effects using a variety of techniques.

I produced this video in its entirety aboard an airplane, flying from New York to San Francisco.

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: art, cartoon and animation

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The Culture Wars are back: bill to ban art funding

Peter over at Create Digital Music has an extremely important post on the ban on art funding tacked onto the stimulus bill. Basically, the proposed bill not only removes $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts, it also explicitly bans any money for the arts, even from institutions that will still get stimulus […]

Shibuya Ghosts

Shibuya crossing, in Tokyo. Playing around with the (mis-)use of difference mattes.

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: art, tokyo and strange

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De Young Textures

Montage of textures from the copper cladding of the new De Young museum in San Francisco.

Music from Cinescore, but mangled up by dBlue Glitch plugin.

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: art, museum and san francisco

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