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A giant stingray

Yves Roumazeilles — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:28:12 +0000

So, scuba divers, did you dive on a stingray as beautiful as this one already?

An SLR camera + some software = three videos

Yves Roumazeilles — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:32:40 +0000

Fabian Tischer is obviously gifted to create small videos from visual effects supposed to be simple (but actually quite tough to master) in order to offer us some cool movies:

Berlin TV tower – lift off from Fabian Tischer on Vimeo.

Insider footage showing NASA’s strange theft of famous Berlin landmark.

little airport from Fabian Tischer on Vimeo.

Miniature faking of Tegel Airport in Berlin.
( my first animation test to simulate a tilt shift miniature effect )

music: Mister Electric Demon – CHO7-31ko [CCL]

deadly encounter from Fabian Tischer on Vimeo.

3D-compositing of an accidental encounter with a robot…

3dsmax & after effects

Check his page often in the future. I believe that his future work will be worth it.

The evolution of technology

Yves Roumazeilles — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:00:20 +0000

Darwin did not see this. Darwin was too shy when he published his major work “the origin of species” on November 24, 1859. The evolution is also for machines and technology and the struggle for life has a meaning.

YouTube link

The evolution of technology, beginning in the early stone age and evolving to the most powerfull technology of all times.

Client: SATURN
Advertising Agency: Scholz&Friends, Berlin, Germany (www.s-f.com)

Insects + light = movie

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:35:34 +0000

flight patterns from Charlie McCarthy on Vimeo.

Long exposures of bugs under a street light.
music: Telefon Tel Aviv – What’s The Use Of Feet If We Haven’t Got Legs

Vimeo link

Merci à Pierrick.

I have a horse dream

Yves Roumazeilles — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:21:09 +0000

YouTube link

If you want to know more, you can even buy those horse legs.

Thrilled, Thriller

Yves Roumazeilles — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:22:30 +0000

Fly like an eagle

Yves Roumazeilles — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:37:10 +0000

…but I couldn’t fly.

Jose Luis Ortiz has changed it all. He installed a small video camera on one of his royal eagles.

Link to YouTube

And now, you and me can fly, really fly. Breath-taking! Boarding a plane became so down-to-Earth. I now want to have wings, I want to fly like an eagle…

Stop-motion pig and wolf

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:03:37 +0000

This is so nice: A Stop-motion video that is very well done, funny.

YouTube link

Do you love chocolate?

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:00:24 +0000

…up to the point of creating a chocolate-inspired video?

…or up to the point of sacrificing chocolate for the sake of pure art?

YouTube link

No fish for 1st of April!
These are bunnies.

Black hole destroying a star

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:18:33 +0000

After billions of years of simulated galactic video, here is the simulation of a balck hole while it swallows a full star. Huge jets, huge amounts of matter removed from sight.

via videosift.com

Free movies (many)

Yves Roumazeilles — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:46:54 +0000

We all love when things come free to us. Here I found a treasure trove of movies that are free to download. Legally.

Thanks to the Canadians of the National Film Board of Canada. They give us feature-length movies, documentaries, animated short movies. Everything, of the best quality, at the best price: Free.

Live dinosaurs? You’re kidding me?

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:11:44 +0000

If you want to meet dinosaurs, not only paintings or sculptures, go to the USA, fly to Los Angeles, California. There, in the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, there are free-roaming dinosaurs in the corridors. Not only are these automatons sized impressively, but they intereact with people and kids around them.

Woah! Stunning!

YouTube link

Underwater movies

Yves Roumazeilles — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:45:25 +0000

I recently met a couple of fine underwater movies. One shows a dive to find a nautilus at great depths; The second shows a phosphorescent amalgam of abyss animals. Always a source of great surprises.

YouTube link

Derelict Japanese suspension bridge

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:44:55 +0000

You loved the Grand Canyon sky walk, and the previously available video of the El Camino del Rey Walkway. So, you proved that you aren’t susceptible to vertigo.

Will you love this old suspension bridge from Japan? It’s old, derelict. The wind is pushing it.

Link to the video

The nazi time traveller [movie]

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:36:00 +0000

This Hungarian short movie is in English. I recommend waiting for the end (after 11 minutes).

Monty Python, free download on YouTube

Yves Roumazeilles — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:07:25 +0000

For sure, YouTube has always been crouded with rip-offs of the Monty Python sketches. Unfortunately, these were both illegal and -in general- of poor quality. The guys from Monty Python decided that enough is enough, and there is now a Monty Python channel/group on YouTube where you can see excellent quality videos of their Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

YouTube link

Surprise! You can find color in B&W photos

Yves Roumazeilles — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:22:51 +0000

This is easy to reduce a color photo to a B&W image (any photo software or any B&W photocopier can do it). But the reverse operation seems difficult at best, impossible in most cases. However, a team of French scientists from the French INRIA (Guillaume Charpiat, Matthias Hofmann et Bernhard Schölkopf) presented recently an algorithm that succeeds to rebuild the color information from a B&W photo. And with some success.

On the image on the left, Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa has been converted to black and white (A), using color data and textures from a similar image (B), the algorithm built a color image again (C) not too far from the original (D).

Analyzing this work, I’d say that part of the differences between the result (C) and the original (D) come from the quality of the conversion to Black & White which led to an image quite hard (a bit more contrast than needed).

Impressive result on photos, you can expect to see it applied to moving images (and movies).

Source: Futura-Science.

An old Monty Python about a young would-be VP

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:04:29 +0000

Link to YouTube

The old lady against the speeding car

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:49:23 +0000

Sometimes a fight outcome is difficult to forecast. Now, if you take an old lady and a (too) fast car. Guess who will be leaving the spot unharmed?

Link to YouTube

Sony Alpha 900, Hollywood movie

Yves Roumazeilles — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:54:17 +0000

When a dSLR like the Sony Alpha 900 is presented as if it was a Hollywood movie, we get this result :