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"Below Sea Level" is open at Mass MoCA

Below Sea Level cyclorama – Harvey Tunnel

“Below Sea Level”, the project I’ve been working on for the past 8 months or so, opened last Saturday, April 4th at Mass MoCA! (The day before my birthday!) The artist is Pawel Wojtasik, and the soundtrack is by Stephen Vitiello. The photo shows Pawel in […]

The making of "Below Sea Level" at Mass MoCA (part 1)

I’ve been working for several months now on a project called “Below Sea Level”, part of the show “These Days: Elegies For Modern Times” at Mass MoCA. You may already have read my post on capturing panoramic video footage, “Shooting immersive video in the field”. After a long, sometimes arduous, but always exciting voyage, the […]

Ring Scroll

Simple hand drawn images over generative backgrounds.

Cast: Gian Pablo Villamil

Tags: ambient and animation

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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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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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