Film Tips
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Toke Constantin Hebbeln's film "NimmerMeer" has won a student academy award in the category "Best Foreign Film". The film uses lyrical images to recount a fantastic parable about the coming of age and the power of dreams and was made in collaboration with Frisbeefilms. |
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 The toil of the workingman is the fascinating subject for this documentary from Austrian director Michael Glawogger. A film of few words but plenty of indelible images of people (mostly men) risking their lives with hardly a second thought.
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Massive Black is a full production artwork and asset outsourcing studio that has contributed to over 85 projects for multiple video game platforms, film, print, toys, comics and more. While each of these artists continued working for other companies, they solidified their relationship through conceptart.org and by coming together to teach workshops.
They had $6,000, a passion for art, talent, experience and a lofty goal: Deliver the top quality artwork to the top quality companies in the entertainment world. Today, Massive Black’s 55 artists provide concept design, storyboards, graphic design, illustration, 2D concept art, 3D modeling, texture painting, 3D animation, and marketing materials to more than 80 entertainment clients worldwide.
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Founders Jason Manley, Coro Kaufman and Andrew Jones developed pitches for other companies and Massive Black artists learned what they needed to do to sell their own ideas. “We knew from the beginning that IP [intellectual property] is what makes your company valuable,” says Manley. “We know what the market needs to get our own worlds out.” Now that they’re running a company of their own, that hasn’t changed. The company provides most of the instructors, the work force, and the client relationships. And, conceptart.org has grown: The website, which gets around 700,000 unique visitors per month, has doubled its traffic each year. FINEST CHARACTER ANIMATION (click on the picture below)
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Music Tips
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He played all night long, even during pauses. Miles somehow had to cut
his solos, cause John never seemed to stop. Coltrane was so deep in
concentration and he simply had no idea, how to finish his solo. Miles often told him "Just try to get that sax out of your mouth". |
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Born in Vienna, Josef Erich Zawinul is credited with bringing the electric piano, as well as African and Middle Eastern rhythms, to mainstream jazz. There was no piano at home, but the young Joe studied piano, violin and clarinet at the Vienna Conservatory, where he was given a free place at the age of seven |
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