What happens when the power of Speilberg and Jackson, collide with the legacy of Tintin? You get this! Here are some images found on the net and Empire magazine.

What do you think? Was the collision worth it?

We just finished up an ad for Blue Bean and their ad agency Publicis. You can now personalize your credit card! Yeah! I think designers and artists country wide are saying: “Finally!”

Watch this space for more updates.

Want to know what Luma Arcade has been up to the last couple of months?! Well check out the movie!

Here are a few words from Luma Arcade about the game:

The Harvest has been designed from the ground up to be the best looking 3D mobile phone game to date, with innovative touch screen gameplay that brings Action RPG games on mobile devices out of the dark ages. Players are immediately immersed in an Action RPG game experience tailored to mobile phones, taking all the best from the genre, while removing the tedium and repetitiveness that is usually associated with games of this nature. At the same time, they are immersed into a deep and intriguing story that will leave them wanting to find out more.

“Le Royaume” (The king and the Beaver), Student graduating film 2010 at Gobelins, L’école de l’image.

Written, directed and animated by Nuno Alves Rodrigues, Oussama Bouachéria, Julien Chheng, Sébastien Hary, Aymeric Kevin, Ulysse Malassagne & Franck Monier.
Music by Mathieu Alvado.

A little bit of madness for you!

Imagine…just 20 years ago. Wow!

This is a music video directed by Saman Keshavarz. Awesome stuff. Actress is Darcy Ripley who also happens to be a brilliant artist herself. This video won SXSW  Best Music Video 2010 and featured on Saatchi & Saatchi’s New Director’s Showcase 2010. Well done Darcy! More credits on Vimeo.

This is the official Esther’s’ video directed by Charles De Meyer. Very nice CG integration and an interesting subtle style of animation! I would really like to see the composite files!

Oh yeah! Look out world!

The future of screen technology you say?! Hmmm, looks awesome to me! Can’t wait for Luma Arcade to develop some games for this one day!

Here is the trailer for the new Green Hornet film. Hmmmm, maybe, maybe not. Let’s wait and see!
It is however directed by Michel Gondry! So here is hoping for a good movie experience!

Loving this McBess app for the iPad! Support the guy! Check out his amazing artwork on his website.

Hopefully we can do something with McBess…maybe a McBess iPhone/iPad game??
Luma Arcade should fit the picture!

Dan Beckemeyer has some yummy “food inspired fonts.” Check out more on his Behance page!

Thanks to MINI for letting us have so much fun and to Ukutula Lion Park for letting us play with the cutest lion cubs and serving the best lunch.

Check out more of the madness here! Or take a look at the cut down version below on the official MINI YouTube channel.

Shot on the Canon 5D and 7D with a few primes. Why not take a look at some of the locations we shot at.

Directed by:
Chris Wieffering and Jason Cullen

A huge thanks to :
Karen and Carmen from MINI.

Mike,Gerhard,Tebs and Carli for…..going wild!

And the support of 
Nono, Mpumi and Laiken.

Music by : Goodluck
A Luma production

RACER DEMO 0.1 – video game mashup from sputnic on Vimeo.

Wow, a new way of game development.

So, just to interrupt Jason’s posting fest, have a laugh with this funny TV ad for the new racing game BLUR. It’s good to be back!

Blur does it again, with an amazing FMV trailer for the new DC Universe Online. Well done!

Watch trailer. Freak out. No need to say more.

When you combine David Fincher, Blur and Dark Horse comics, prepare for some CGI horror yummyness!

The Goon is a comic book series created by Eric Powell in 1999. The story is about the adventures of the Goon, a muscle-bound brawler who claims to be the primary enforcer for the feared mobster Labrazio. The Goon (and his sidekick Franky) often get tied up in other machinations, often in relation to the evil zombie gangs under the command of the Nameless Zombie Priest. The series has a distinctly paranormal slant, with the average story concerning ghosts, ghouls, skunk-apes, extra-dimensional aliens, and mad scientists.

Watch the teaser below!

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As always, we at Luma are suckers for a good “behind the scenes.” So check out this AMAZING short film and the incredible amount of work that went into “Something left, Something taken!” Well done!

Behind the scenes here

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Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 – Teaser from Thiago Costa on Vimeo.

Woah, take a look at some of the physics tests done in Softimage XSI with ICE. Wow!!

If I mention the word “Boom Shaka Laka” and an excited chill runs through your body, well then read on my friend from some amazing behind the scenes of this new remake of NBA Jam!

Before going any further watch the debut trailer above.

Then to feed your addiction,  check out the actual game play below

Right, now we have your attention. To further enhance your skills take a look at this amazing behind the scenes put up by 1UP below.

Interesting to see the process

Focus Testing

More info and concept art can be found here.

Alright, just one more trailer to get the excitement back in!

Check out our local game dev scene at Luma.

Luma Animation and Ogilvy Johannesburg teamed up to create one of the first Stereoscopic 3D Cinema commercials in South Africa for the DStv brand. Read on to see behind the scenes!

Directed by Paul Meyer for Luma, this groundbreaking 65″ fully animated commercial was conceptualised by the creatives at Ogilvy Johannesburg: Art Director Chantelle dos Santos, Copywriter Dan Parmenter and Creative Director Jonathan Beggs.

A quick snapshot of the layers of a composite

With an extremely tight schedule, it took huge effort from every team member at Luma, as the animators and compositors pulled out all the stops to bring the project in on time.  With up to 15 people working on the job literally every artist on this job put in 150% – and it shows on screen.  “We could not have pulled it off without this level of dedication and committment from everyone in the team”

DStv 2D animatic

The commercial tells the story of a little girl who visits a balloon artist in a park.  The artist becomes increasingly more exasperated and desperate as he tries to impress the little girl, who does not seem at all interested in his dazzling array of balloon creations.

We thought we would share with you some of the concept art that went into this production:

“It was a real privilege for us as Luma to win this board. It feels more like an animated short film than a TV spot and it looks so good in 3D on the big screen”.

Graham Pfuhl, Marketing and Sales Director of DStv is delighted with the ad. “DStv is all about entertainment and 3D depicts that entertainment in a very special way”.

The commercial will be flighted in 3D cinemas nationwide throughout June and supported by balloon themed cinema activations.

“One of the those rare experiences and smiles all round.  We thank Ogilvy and DStv”.

Luma

Paul Meyer – Director
Werner Ziemerink – Head of 3D
Martin Sen – Animation Supervisor

Erik Kruger – 3D Animation/rigging/3D anamatic
Tim Morar  – Environments/Lighting
Athanase Georgellis – Environments/3D Animation
Jason Cullen – 3D Animation
Chaduka Phiri – Modeling and 3D Animation
Ruaan Grobler – 3D Animation
Charl Smit – character designer and concept artist/2D anamatic
Brendan Noeth – concept art and texturing
Ryan Crocker – 3D animation

Nicola Shackleford – Producer

Gerhard Painter – Compositing
Chris Wieffering – Compositing
Johan Scheepers – Compositing

George Bergh – IT

More DStv in the news and other links

http://www.tvsa.co.za/default.asp?blogname=tv&articleid=14547
http://www.filmcontact.com/south-africa/dstv-commercial-goes-3d
http://www.totallymad.co.za/?idstory=27010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwFjBLR9kc

Luma Arcade

So after you have directed Pirates of The Caribbean, what is next? Well Rango of course!

• Rango movie produced by Blind Wink, directed by Gore Verbinski.
• Release date March 18, 2011

More info here

Luma Arcade has been getting a lot of attention regarding a tech demo that they developed in-house for Microsoft called the Harvest, which was used by Microsoft at GDC and MIX10 in San Francisco and Las Vegas earlier this month to promote the newly announced Windows Phone 7 Series. It was built on Luma’s in-house 3D rendering engine built on the XNA Game Studio 4.0 framework. The Harvest runs on what Microsoft is calling the ”Three Screens”, namely the Xbox360, Windows PC and the new Windows Phone 7 Series. More to come, so watch this space!  Take a look at some of the inside scoop from Slashgear, Engadget and AnandTech.

GENRE: ACTION RPG

In the game world, the player must fight through the decayed remnants of an ancient holy city many years after a vicious alien invasion in order to save what is left of humanity.

More info on the Windows Phone 7 here.

Got this link from Dale – he’s busy putting together a bike of his own (we’re putting pressure on him to post his progress somewhere) – Beautiful graphics beautifully printed. Lovely attention to detail with a touch of sexiness. Check out silencetv.

]]> http://blog.luma.co.za/2010/03/riders-villains/feed/ 0 http://blog.luma.co.za/2010/03/the-artists-of-south-africa-hylton-warburton/ http://blog.luma.co.za/2010/03/the-artists-of-south-africa-hylton-warburton/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:35:55 +0000 chris http://www.luma.co.za/blog/?p=1155 In this blog we would like to highlight some of the amazing talent found here in South Africa! To start off, we proudly showcase:

Hylton Warburton

Check out his Flickr account for illustration awesomeness or chat to him on Twitter.

Use local!
Peace!

Samurai from Phil Shoebottom on Vimeo.

A piece done by realtimeuk.com‘ during their “downtime”.