Mitchell McKenna - tagged with motion http://mitchmckenna.com/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress mitchellmckenna@gmail.com The V Motion Project - Music Through Movement http://mitchmckenna.com/post/11620/the-v-motion-project

The Motion Project combines the collective talents of musicians, dancers, programmers, designers and animators to create an amazing visual instrument. It uses the power of the Kinect to capture movement and translate it into music which is performed live and projected on a huge wall.

The Motion Project was a collaboration between a lot of clever creative people working together to create a machine that turns motion into music. The client of the project, Frucor (makers of V energy drink), have a history of creating incredible and over the top projects and events. Together with their agency Colenso BBDO, they kitted-out a warehouse space for this project to grow in and gathered together a group of talented people from a number of creative fields to collaborate together.

Jeff Nusz of Custom Logic breaks down how the project came to be, who was involved, and how it was built, in an awesome post about the Tech Behind The Motion Project.

]]> Fri, 20 Jul 2012 01:28:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/11620/the-v-motion-project/the-v-motion-project Future Motion Control Gaming http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10061/future-motion-control-gaming

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Join us as we take a glimpse into the possible future of motion control gaming!

Special thanks to Insomniac Games for animating the Chimera monsters from Resistance with us!

Also, thanks to Alessandro Schiassi ( http://www.alessandroschiassi.com ) for VFX Supervision, matchmoving, and compositing.

Thanks to Marco Giordano for assistance with Maya.

]]> Sun, 04 Sep 2011 02:37:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10061/future-motion-control-gaming/future-motion-control-gaming WORDS http://mitchmckenna.com/post/8142/words

A stunning visual poem from Radiolab and NPR. Words have the power to shape the way we think and feel. In this video, filmmakers Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante bandy visual wordplay into a moving exploration of how language connects our inner thoughts to the outside world.

]]> Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:15:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/8142/words/words Parkour Motion Reel http://mitchmckenna.com/post/5948/parkour-motion-reel

Illustrated with technical pen, frame by frame. Animating the old flip book sytle way. The audio used is Dr Dre Rap beat.

]]> Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:06:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/5948/parkour-motion-reel/parkour-motion-reel Ninjas Unbox the Nexus One http://mitchmckenna.com/post/5930/ninjas-unboxing

This is – hands down – the best unboxing I’ve ever seen in my life:

]]> Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:57:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/5930/ninjas-unboxing/ninjas-unboxing French Students Make Amazing Stop-Motion Video http://mitchmckenna.com/post/5617/the-escp-europe-human-experience

This stop-motion video, made by 300 French students for the ESCP Business School, is in fact amazing. Regardless of what the actual assignment was, we can only assume they passed with flying colors.

]]> Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:30:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/5617/the-escp-europe-human-experience/the-escp-europe-human-experience Ataque de Pánico! (Panic Attack!) 2009 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/5579/ataque-de-panico-panic-attack-2009

The world is under attack from gigantic ungainly robots plodding slowly through the streets vaporising civilians as they go. Well I for one welcome our intergalactic robotic overlords. Come on in, have a cup of tea and a sit down. Just don't explo...

]]> Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:43:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/5579/ataque-de-panico-panic-attack-2009/ataque-de-panico-panic-attack-2009 Hirzberger Events - Digital Wallpaper http://mitchmckenna.com/post/4347/hirzberger-events-digital-wallpaper

Once in a while it is nice to not work on a commercial project and have the freedom of doing whatever you want. Fortunately the people at Büro Hirzberger hirzbergerevents.com were totally open to whatever we presented them to decorate parts of their office space in Vienna.

My fellow co-workers at Strukt Design Studio strukt.com came up with this digital wallpaper, using 2 projectors to map an entire wall and using VVVV to do the deskewing and to generate the content.

Many thanks go to the great guys at Concept Solutions derigel.at to provide us the equipment for the test set-up.

Credits:

VVVV-Programming: Julian Köhn, Thomas Hitthaler, Robi Hammerle

Project Management: Gregor Hofbauer

Equipment Support: Klaus Spitzbart / Concept Solutions

Music: PNAU - Baby (Breakbot Remix) Cast: Gregor Hofbauer

]]> Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:43:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/4347/hirzberger-events-digital-wallpaper/hirzberger-events-digital-wallpaper Visual Effects: 100 Years of Inspiration http://mitchmckenna.com/post/4125/visual-effects-100-years-of-inspiration

A "5th-grader-friendly" collection of clips and making-of footage from notable visual effects films of the past century. Originally intended for educational use as an introduction to a classroom lecture. The music track is "Rods and Cones" from the album "Audio" by Blue Man Group.

1900 - The Enchanted Drawing 1903 - The Great Train Robbery 1923 - The Ten Commandments (Silent) 1927 - Sunrise 1933 - King Kong 1939 - The Wizard of Oz 1940 - The Thief of Bagdad 1954 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1956 - Forbidden Planet 1963 - Jason and the Argonauts 1964 - Mary Poppins 1977 - Star Wars 1982 - Tron 1985 - Back to the Future 1988 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1989 - The Abyss 1991 - Terminator 2: Judgement Day 1992 - The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles 1993 - Jurassic Park 2004 - Spider-Man 2 2005 - King Kong 2006 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2007 - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007 - The Golden Compass 2008 - The Spiderwick Chronicles 2008 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

]]> Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:42:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/4125/visual-effects-100-years-of-inspiration/visual-effects-100-years-of-inspiration Iron Man vs Bruce Lee http://mitchmckenna.com/post/1755/iron-man-vs-bruce-lee Iron Man fights Bruce Lee in stop motion... ]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:37:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/1755/iron-man-vs-bruce-lee/iron-man-vs-bruce-lee The Crisis of Credit Visualized - Part 1 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/1274/the-crisis-of-credit-visualized-part-1 The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis. By Jonathan Jarvis. Crisisofcredit.com The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the… ]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:16:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/1274/the-crisis-of-credit-visualized-part-1/the-crisis-of-credit-visualized-part-1