smooth motion graphics

September 23, 2001 7:51 PM

smooth motion graphics featuring 4-D sweater porn. definately check out exp untitled: infinity under "work." more here.
posted by kliuless (16 comments total)

Beautiful. Smoooooooth.

but it *is* all flash... what would jakob say?
posted by tomorama at 8:13 PM on September 23, 2001

Who cares what Jakob would say. What would Hillman Curtis say?
posted by Brilliantcrank at 8:35 PM on September 23, 2001

so very very very cool. be sure to check out both links.
posted by Optamystic at 8:49 PM on September 23, 2001

funny you brought up jakob and hillman, 'cause they were exactly who i was thinking of. though i'm all for usability, and was once obsessed with it (along with everyone else during spring.), that is some pretty damn pretty flash.

i'd almost play the community-police and say, "this really doesn't qualify as a good front-page post." but i guess i won't get into that, since others' boats are floated by all sorts of other things.

and for some reason (probably the pretty damn pretty flash), i actually checked out the quicktime movie, which i don't usually do.. thank god for broadband. but that is a better commercial than at least 90% of the stuff i see on TV... still, i remain by what was said in my second paragraph...
posted by lotsofno at 9:01 PM on September 23, 2001

Reminds me of some of the better graphic demos to come out of the PC demoscene in the mid 1990s. Speaking of which, I've been meaning to head over to assembly.org and check out the winners from this year's competition.
posted by waxpancake at 9:09 PM on September 23, 2001

Just what I need, another KC design firm to compete with. Thanks for making my day a whole lot more depressing.
posted by geoff. at 9:25 PM on September 23, 2001

Those quicktimes are nice.

I prefer Anamorph myself. Even more impressive when you consider one guy made it.
posted by mkn at 9:32 PM on September 23, 2001

If the Internet was a library, Jakob Nielsen would be the stuck-up prude librarian.

Sometimes it's art for art's sake... and I'm all for that. Not every web page needs to look like a tax form.
posted by Down10 at 10:09 PM on September 23, 2001

Hey, looka that! You can export 3D animations from Cararra or Ray Dream into Flash, and then export Flash to QuickTime!! A few hundred 45 degree angles and a little molecule thing for legitimacy, and the thing just comes alive. Fabulous!!

This would be great if I hadn't seen it 8 bazillion times already.

Don't get me wrong, it is quite well produced - it's just that it's been done before.
posted by aladfar at 11:21 PM on September 23, 2001

MK12 is also responsible for "The Terrible Cosmic Death," the winner of Rockstar Games Upload contest for Best Short Subject Film. It's a big (60mb), slow download, but it is really terrific and well worth the time.
posted by hanqduong at 11:42 PM on September 23, 2001

(taking notes) export from 3d app ... bring into flash ... vectorize ... convert to quicktime, possibly with filters ... take into final cut pro ...

Guess I'm behind the curve. This is inspiring to me.
posted by jragon at 8:15 AM on September 24, 2001

yawn.... pretty eye candy.... makes me relearn the interface to find anything.... just what we need, 10,000,000 sites, each with a new "interface paradigm" rendered in 3-D flash and QT. somebody kill me.

or them.
posted by yarf at 9:50 AM on September 24, 2001

hey, that music was pretty smooth. does anyone know what that was?
posted by MonkeyMeat at 1:37 PM on September 24, 2001

I say this with zero actual evidence that I'm right-- but the music sounds an awful lot like Combustible Edison to me, MonkeyMeat. If you like that kinda sound, try their "I, Swinger"... available wherever fine LPs are sold.
posted by ook at 7:06 PM on September 24, 2001

The recommended Quicktime video is wonderfully cool. I only got through half of the high-res version (with my little modem), but my thought is Why can't things of that quality and daring be found on public television?.
posted by ParisParamus at 8:24 PM on September 24, 2001

For anyone here who's mentioned Flash, this wasn't a post about web design, evidenced by lack of the words "web" and "design." The post concerns itself only with the motion graphics pieces of MK12 and possibly a few others contained in the EXP section at belief.com. MK12, as a collective, is clearly not concerned with the apparently life-and-death issues of the web. Link useability and content searches have no relevance in motion design. MK12 is in love with narrative, setting, pace and rhythm; really, all that is filmic. They're making stuff that's arguably more interesting than short films, in the traditional sense, in that the abstract ways in which the narratives are presented permit a new kind of dialogue between the piece and the audience. The notion of abstracted communication is sort of an underpinning of interesting design, hence it's true that there are many designers out there using the same tactics, but MK12 has an engaging, sophisticated voice, and I don't think there's much denying that their motion work is formally stunning. Their website sucks. My musical composition sucks. I'm not a composer.

If you can stomach the site, go back and check out "Infinity" and "4-D Sweater Porn" at www.mk12.com
They're quite beautiful.
posted by BeefyT at 4:55 PM on September 25, 2001