BOOK
Book: Goto80's "Computer Rooms" is now available (2013)
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3D ANIMATION
Interview: Jonathan Monaghan is unmasking ideology with 3D animation
GameScenes is conducting a series of interviews with artists, critics, curators, and gallery owners operating in the field of Game Art, as part of an ongoing investigation of the social history of this fascinating artworld. Our goal is to illustrate the genesis and evolution of a phenomenon that changed the
GAME ART
Game Art: Daniela Masili's "Zombienation" (2013)
Daniela Masili received her Bachelor of Arts in Film Directing from Berlin University in 2009. Since then, she has been working on a series of interesting projects. The latest is "Zombienation", a new music video for hip hop band BND which remediates the aesthetics of Mortal Kombat. LINK:
GAME ART
Game Art: Michael Aubtin Madadi's "Sefton's Dream" (2013)
Based in London, Michael Aubtin Madadi has received an MA in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, and a BA in Illustration at University of Westminster. His latest project is titled Sefton's Dream, "[a] hurried journey through a dream sequence" created
EVENT
Event: Baden Pailthorpe's "Cadence" (Martin Browne Contemporary, July 25 - August 18, 2013)
Baden Pailthorpe, 25 July - 18 August 2013 Martin Browne Contemporary 15 Hampden St Paddington NSW 2021, Australia LINK : Baden Pailthorpe related: Pattern Recognition Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
GAME ART
Event: Iam8bit Entertainment System (June 7 - 30, 2013, Los Angeles)
iam8bit Gallery, 2147 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026 Opening night on Friday, June 7, 7 - 11p.m (Exhibit to run through June 30) Featuring 80+ artists including Aled Lewis, Brent Kobayashi, Zac Gorman, Darick Maasen, Gianmarco Magnani, Jim Rugg, Jude Buffum and many more. LINK: iam8bit Submitted by
GAME ART
Game Art: Dan O' Neill's "Street Fighter Motion Sculptures" (2013)
Dan O'Neill created this series of motion scultpures using Cinema 4D, Vray, Xpresso and Thinking Particles. As he explains on his site, Dan edited the motion captures from this archive and used Microsoft Kinect as well. He tweaked the character models from Free 3D Models and obtained a
ART GAME
Game Art: Pixel Art, Chiptunes, and Crucifixes: The Church Of Whatever (2013)
The Church Of Whatever is a new audiovisual band formed by Spanish artist Entter (ex-Meneo, nee Raúl Berrueco, 1977) and HISS, a young bleep-techno producer from Treviso, Italy. Berrueco i s widely known for his visual focus on retro arcade and low-fi gaming graphics from the Golden
FANDOM
Game Art: RudeBootie and The Art of Animated GIFs
At Visual News, Benjamin Starr writes about a huge collection of animated GIFs created by gamer/redditor RudeBootie. More than 125 images display beat'em up backgrounds from classic titles like Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Darkstalkers, and many more sans the fighting action. Conceptually, this project is on
FILM
Event: "The Space Invaders: In Search of Lost Time" @ CCA (June 1, 2013, San Francisco)
Come see a one-night-only screening of the award-winning documentary The Space Invaders: In Search of Lost Time by Jeff Von Ward, a recent graduate of the M.F.A. in Writing program at California College of the Arts. Among other things, Jeff edits the popular City Lights
GAME ART
Game Art: Mike Pelletier's "Kinect Portraits" (2013)
Mike Pelletier - who created, among other things, CuteXDoom (2009) with Anita Fontaine (an impressive series of art game mods based on Unreal Tournament 3) - has produced the most amazing Kinect-based art I have seen so far. These portraits make full use of the 3D scanning capabilities of Microsoft'
DANCE
Game Art: Jake Jonghwa Kim et al.'s "Space Maestro" (2013)
Image credit: Handmade Studios "Space Maestro is an interactive Kinect experience that enables players to create their own musical universe through free-form movement in physical space. By spatially moving both hands like a maestro conducting an orchestra, players fuse gas clouds in space into stars. As new stars