A tantalising glimpse of the mother of all Tetris games, as floors descend, rotate, and drop into gleaming tower blocks. O2's Panoramic commercial by The Mill shows the way forward in referencing videogame culture in popular moving image forms.
"Russell Tickner supervised the shoot in Berlin, where he captured detailed photographs of many of the city’s new buildings, along with some high dynamic range environment photos which he later used for seamless rendering.
Archive for November, 2004
Skyscraper tetris
Directors Label 2005 upcoming
Three new Directors Label releases are due Summer 2005, featuring the collected music videos of esteemed helmers Mark Romanek, Jonathan Glazer, and Anton Corbijn. Stephane Sednaoui is reported to be next up after this trio.
Jonathan Glazer's few music video and commercials have resulted in highly memorable and celebrated clips for Radiohead, UNKLE, Massive Attack and Guinness.
Warhammer 40,000 cinematics
Insight into the futuristic blitzkrieg of the Warhammer 40K intro over at CGNetworks, which has an illuminating interview with Paul Taylor and Dave Wilson, the CG supervisors at Blur Studio, responsible for the astounding computer game cinematics.
Warhammer 40,000 computer game description:
"Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War follows the exploits of the Blood Ravens, a Space Marine chapter whose past is shrouded in mystery. Brother Captain Gabriel Angelos and his faithful sub-commander, the powerful psyker Librarian Isador Akios, bring the Blood Ravens to bear on a growing Ork threat to the planet Tartarus.
