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It’s another sleepy day in Diner Zone 51. But today a buzzing iPhone unexpectedly attracts a curious UFO.

Love romanticized

Novels and films romanticize love.  Even 3D animated movies include elements of love in the stories. Novelists and film directors portray love in a superficial way.  But in fact, real love is something deeper, richer, and everlasting.

Morning Coffee

When I was a child, every morning started with my father’s 6 AM routine.  He would turn on the television and listen to the news as he got ready for work.  I remember each morning I would be half awake and half asleep, my head still fuzzy and dreamy, hearing in a suspended state the distant sounds coming from the television.  I had one foot in dreamland, and the other foot in reality.

Power of Light

Humans are innately drawn to light.  It seems we’ve been so since the dawn of time.  From a quiet sunrise to a crackling fire and to the brilliant stars in a night sky, light has been a magnet of curiosity and fascination.  From young children to adults alike, we never seem to tire of it.  We are always mesmerized by light.

A quick glimpse of a simple VFX scene.  To build larger scenes can be as complex and challenging as it is to build a spacecraft in real life, it seems.

How do you make a smartphone smarter? One of our clients knows how. Their “new generation” teaser hints at features including wireless charging (no cords!), 48-hour battery life with full features/refreshes running, stereo VR camera, and surround sound technology. Apple, watch out. Smartphones aren’t just getting smarter – but more brilliant.

“We never know how high we are”

Recently we created an apocalyptic city scene with 3D model, 3D animation, and visual effects (vfx).  Somehow working on the concrete jungle transported me back to my youth and my days in the countryside …

What Comes to Mind When You Think of Japanese culture?

I’m always impressed by how Japanese people are generally meticulous and thoughtful with everything.  From technology to art, and even food, it’s a compliment to the culture how they contemplate with great attention to efficiency, effectiveness, aesthetics, and emotional well-being.

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If you could rewind your life and change one of your decisions, what would it be?  As imperfect beings, at times we all say or do things we regret later.  If we could change a past action or reaction, would you be at a different place now?

Artificial intelligence has always intrigued people with mixed emotions.  Some people fear it.  Others are fascinated and eager to see its progress.  As a 3d animation studio in ny, we had a project to animate a humanoid.  That got us thinking:

Columbia Pictures is one of the leading production studios in the world. They are almost 100 years old. Can you imagine the company made unique films even back then? They helped introduce our grandparents and parents to moving pictures. We too grew up watching their productions. And Columbia Pictures is sure to continue entertaining and influencing our children, grandchildren, and future generations to come.

“The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, theatre, and music. The style began around 1600 in Rome and Italy, and spread to most of Europe.” – Wikipedia

Less is more. Introducing the Sleek Socket.

* 3 power outlets
* 9 foot cord
* Pencil-thin on top of an outlet

Home.  The safest place for our children.  Or is it?

It’s not uncommon for children to suffer electrocution and injuries from chewing on cables. Current outlet covers and plug protections aren’t completely childproof. Is there 1 product that addresses all these problems?

A recent client needed to update their company logo. They wanted a design that was quick and minimalist, yet sleek and modern and under 10-seconds.

Recently we animated a couple of intros for a popular YouTube channel. The YouTuber has nearly 1 Million subscribers, and his show is about cars.

It’s always a thrill to work with entrepreneurs. If we had to describe their attitude and perspective as a mathematical formula, it would probably be something like this: Vision + internal drive + little bit of luck = make things happen.

Do you know who this man is? How would you describe this painting? It was done by a man who was one of the first VFX artists.  His name was Emil Kosa Jr. He produced fine works for noteworthy films, including Cleopatra (1963), in addition to many other VFX projects.

Teaser preview for “The Bad Dinosaur”. Coming March 2018

We had the privilege of creating a 3D product animation of a medical stent. It The client was a major medical devices manufacturer. The goal was to showcase the device in 360 and to demonstrate how the parts interact. Here is an abbreviated clip.

Here’s are just a few samples of our 3D product animations.