silentVelcro

Quartz Composer timeline control with a twist

silentadmin — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:16:50 +0000

I started using Quartz Composer because i could achieve some great effects, mainly Glitch effects and 3D manipulations with structured scanning, for free since it is part of XCode by Apple. I found that it is a very powerful node based system but it lacked some features i wanted since it was built for a different purpose. I wanted a timeline control of effect values and a sort of transport control synchronized to the timeline. I started fiddling and came out with a patch that allows me to control the effects via a timeline and set “Loop In” and “Loop Out” points so i can loop the result and fine tweak it without having to watch the whole video while i am working on that segment. So far it works great and i have to resolve some minor bugs. Final patch will be posted here for free download.

Accelerator ID

silentadmin — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:41:50 +0000

Concept, design, animation, sound design: Lonesome Robots & silentVelcro
Producer: Andy Kelleher. WDF Productions.
“Accelerator” is a business incubator company based in London. They asked us to create a short animation of their logo as part of their rebranding and expansion. The piece should present the company’s vision of being a professional digital incubator, dynamic & young. It should also be distinct, so viewers would associate the brand immediately and help integrate the brand on different media and social communities.

Konstantinos Tsakmaz

silentadmin — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:54:00 +0000

Official website of Professional Photographer Konstantinos Tsakmaz. Visit the site
Art Direction, Web Design, Development: silentVelcro
Full browser, minimal, photography portfolio. PHP, jQuery, CSS.
Designed to showcase creative work with a minimal and elegant interface.
Website supported in IE9+, Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
Templates and Theme are completely custom.
Built with WordPress. Copyright 2013. silentVelcro.

Sentiment Teaser

silentadmin — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:39:02 +0000

WeThePeople: Filming, Editing.
LonesomeRobots: Post Production, Title Design
Teaser for the upcoming Music Video for “Sentiment” by VGO & Yinka. The guys at WeThePeople sent us some footage and asked us for our personal touch. The piece required a workflow for tracking data on fish-eye footage and matching the added elements with the appropriate lens distortion. Full video to be released soon. “Sentiment” will be released from “Ánthrōpos-Mēkhané” Records.

Low Poly Intruder

silentadmin — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:56:33 +0000

Concept, Design, Animation: silentVelcro & Lonesome Robots
A short story of a low polygon entity. Full clip to come soon

Lonesome Robots completed post production on short film “The Question” by Danann Breathnach

silentadmin — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:22:37 +0000

LonesomeRobots & yours truly completed visual FX work on short film “The Question” by Danann Breathnach . The project featured 72 effects shots including a meteorite intro sequence and the film’s title. Also all the graphics for the super computer interface were designed by LonesomeRobots in collaboration with the director Dannan Breathnach and the producer Mark Downes. It was a great collaboration and a wild ride trying to catch the deadlines, but the great thing was that both Dannan and Mark were so helpful and really let us add our own style to their vision.
Clips to come soon.
Check out “The Question” on facebook
Support “The Question” on Indiegogo

The Question

silentadmin — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:38:54 +0000

LonesomeRobots completed visual FX work on Danann Breathnach’s new short film “The Question”. The project featured 72 effects shots including a meteorite intro sequence and the film title. Also all the graphics for the super computer interface were designed by LonesomeRobots. The effects shots featured, breaking glasses, atmosphere effects, screen replacements and adding many details in the scenes for greater realism. The short is actually in the very final stage of grading. FX clip will be added as soon as the film hits the first big festivals.

Scanlines and Glitches

silentadmin — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:42:43 +0000

Playing around with my new toys. Video made completely with Quartz Composer including glitches.

Health Watch Swiss

silentadmin — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:46:47 +0000

Official website of Health Watch Swiss Pharmaceuticals. Visit the site
Art Direction: MNM Design | Web Design: MNM & silentVelcro | Development: silentVelcro
Homepage features a main menu stylized to the company logo. The menu is cross-browser(IE7+) and
cross-platform compatible and uses CSS and jQuery along with image-maps to create the desired effect.
Website supported in IE7+, Firefox, Safari and Chrome. Templates and Theme are completely custom.
Built with WordPress. Copyright 2012. MNM Design & silentVelcro.

LonesomeRobots interview in culturacolectiva.com

silentadmin — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:47:04 +0000

Interview for culturacolectiva.com answered by yours truly (Spiros Pagiatakis) on behalf of Lonesome Robots. Click here to jump to the article and if you don’t speak spanish, scroll down for the english version. Many thanx to Ricardo Beard for a great interview. Also don’t forget to check out the rest of culturacolectiva.com for countless great articles.