Artist of the Week: Daniel Simon

Daniel Simon is definitely one of the concept artists of the future. Whereas many concept artists have stayed with two dimensional work, Daniel takes a lot of his designs from the drawing board and into 3D, making sure the design works from every angle.

With such an extraordinary imagination conjuring up such fantastic ideas of what the future might look like it's no wonder Daniel was the lead concept artist for Tron Legacy.

Check out the latest concept art from Daniel Simons portfolio here

 Light Jet Concept, Tron Legacy

Light Cycle Concept, Tron Legacy

Jeff Bridges, Olivia Wilde, Joe Kosinski (director), Sean Bailey

(Head of Production, Disney) and Daniel Simon. UK premiere

Tron Legacy 2010, London. © John Furniss

Light Runner Concept, Tron Legacy

Concept Bike from Cosmic Motors 

Concept Bike from Cosmic Motors 

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Rags to Riches : Call Of Duty

Good afternoon Bloggers.

As we all know from the continuous bombardment of news articles and TV coverage, times are hard out there at the moment, companies are having to let go of staff and people are finding it extremely hard to find work. We are living in a time when countries and governments are going into debt and the world is commonly perceived as being in turmoil.

But one company seems to have come from nowhere and created one of the biggest and most well known franchises in the world.... The recession proof - Call Of Duty

8 Years ago games were designed to give players a past-time in which the aim was to finish first, or survive. They were basic stories in which you could pick up, play and give-up whenever you felt like it.

Then came Call of Duty

Infinity Ward, Call Of Duty's producers was built up from a team of ex-EA staff that had an idea for a new way of producing a first person shooter. EA on the other hand didn't like the idea


The group of developers created Infinity Ward. They threw away the book when it came to gaming and brought the cinematic feel to the player and created an emotional bond with the character you play and develop

Currently there are some 17 Million People are online playing at any one time around the world.

Recent figures show that the series Call Of Duty is more successful than some major recording artists and blockbuster films. It has made waves in the gaming industry almost bankrupting rival gaming studios and with social Networking taking a big part of people lives, we see Call Of Duty has ruined numerous relationships and marriages. Which has paved the way for adverts like this


So how can all this come from just a game?...and how has a company, who came from knowhere created one of the greatest and most profitable pieces of entertainment of all time?.

Just watch the History of Infinity Ward and Call Of Duty on the link Below and See for yourself how Infinity Ward changed the gaming world for ever.



SoVibrant / Inspiring Animation

Zhu Tianyi - 3D visual

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to post a recent image created by one of my favourite artists, Zhu Tianyi.

The image below was created as an entry submission for the Autodesk 3DSMax Hero competition. The aim of the competition was to create an image which incorporated the 3DSMax logo in a subtle yet impactive way. I love how Zhu has managed to do this in such a creative manner, by forming the logo in the snow.

My favourite part of this visual is the atmosphere she has managed to capture, you can almost feel how cold it would be to walk down the street.

For those who don't believe that this is a full 3D visual, I have also attached Zhu's block model render.

To see more of Zhu's work, visit her website at http://www.tianyizhucg.com/.

3D Visualisation
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Artist of the Week: "Sparth"

Afternoon Bloggers and welcome to another Artist of the week. This week we bring you Nicolas Bouvier commonly known in the industry as "Sparth".

Since 1996 Sparth has been at the forefront of the gaming industry, designing concepts for well known franchises and labels such as Prince of Persia, Assassins Creed and Ballistic Publishing.

Sparth has the ability to create some of the most inspiring pieces of artwork with real depth and emotion.
Check out some of his greatest master pieces below.

Enjoy

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Inspiring Animation - Justice 'Civilization'

As part of our inspiring animation series I thought I would share the music video of the new Justice track; 'Civilization'. The video directed by Edouard Salier is one of a long line of brilliant Justice music videos - some of which have been featured on this blog in the past. Although I'm unsure as to the deeper meaning of the animation, it is perfectly suited to the amazing source track which has recently featured in the new global adidas advertising campaign. Check out the video below and let us know your thoughts.



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"Holidays are coming"

Yes, it’s official (in my mind) that Christmas is finally here!!

The famous Coca Cola advert is making a weekly appearance on our television screens, so that can only mean we are allowed to get excited about Christmas.

Click here to get into the festive spirit! 

The advert was sadly taken off screen in 2001. After much uproar from customers and thousands of telephone calls to the Customer Information Centre sad not to see the “start of Christmas”, Coca Cola brought it back in 2007! YAYYYY!
To this day support continues for the “Holidays are coming” advert especially from the social networking site, Facebook.

Not only are we seeing the Christmas truck on TV, this year it’s even more exciting... THE TRUCK IS ON TOUR!
The Coca Cola trucks are making their way from the very north of the UK right down to London. Unfortunately, I’ve missed both Leeds and York but next week it will be making an appearance at Manchester’s Trafford Centre – and I shall be there for that! To find out when you can catch a piece of Christmas, take a look at the link below:
Click here to find out where the Coca Cola Christmas truck will be next!

Excitement aside, isn’t it funny that a huge part of the UK start the planning of Christmas when an advertisement for a drink established in 1886 is broadcasted!

To see how the Coca Cola branding and advertising has developed since 1886, check out the link below:

The history of Coca Cola's advertising

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Design / For fun  

Artist of the Week : Rick Hilgner

Good afternoon bloggers. Today we bring you an artist from behind the scenes of Hollywood. You may not recognise the name initially however you'll no doubt be familiar with his work.

Rick Hilgner is a prop and set builder working on such films as Aliens : Resurrection, Terminator: Judgment day, Fifth Element, Starship Troopers, Titanic and many more. If the big guys at the top need a miniature world, they come to Rick. Check out some of the photos below.

Miniature Frigate from Aliens: Resurrection

New York of the future from Fifth Element

  

K2 Miniature modelled for Vertical Limit

Super Miniature of a star ship from Starship Troopers

The Titanic miniature. One of many large scale models built for destruction

Rick Hilgner Stood by his model of Starship Troopers main frigate

SoVibrant / Artist of the Week

Google - Trying Not To Be Evil

Check out this video on the development and future of Google - whose motto 'trying not to be evil' is seemingly harder and harder to achieve.


Google "Trying not to be evil" from Patrick Clair on Vimeo.

Hidrosalud Headquarters Offices By Cuartopensante Arquitectura

Hidrosalud a Spanish water treatment company have recently refurbished their office accommodation in Valencia. The architects Cuartopensante Arquitectura have created a contemporary office space based on the theory of analysing the form and properties of water and extrapolating them into a physical working environment. I'm sure you will agree that the results are visually stunning. 

Movember!!

Hi everyone,

We thought we would share with the world, just how silly a few of us here at SoVibrant are currently looking. We are partaking in the annual Movember event to help raise awareness of and donations for mens health, specifically testicular cancer.

We have put a link at the bottom of the post for you to donate something to the cause. Any donations are welcome, no matter how small and they will help us to feel a little better about just how silly we look!!

Mo Akhtar - AKA Craig David!

Peter Pringle - AKA Ned Flanders

Charlie Herries - AKA Lemmy (Motorhead)

The link below will take you to our SoVibrant Movember page where you can make a donation to help raise awareness of mens health.

Visit the team page here -- http://uk.movember.com/mospace/2336852/

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Raiffeisen Bank NAU Architects

I really like this impressive interior design scheme for Raiffeisen Bank by NAU an architectural practice from Switzerland. The use of a muted colour palette and feature lighting give the scheme a mixture of retro space age and high quality aesthetic reminiscent of  the space shuttle in one of my favourite movies - 2001 A Space Odyssey. I particularly like the portraits of key historical figures that have been stylised and milled into wall panels in the front facing reception area.