nathan hackett

Norman McLaren - Dots (1940) After seeing Len Lye and OsKar...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:10:44 -0500

Norman McLaren - Dots (1940)

After seeing Len Lye and OsKar Fischinger at the SFMOMA, I am getting into old motion graphics pieces from the 1930’s-50’s. I stumbled upon this gold by Norman McLaren.

With all the technology against them, these pioneers made things that I am still in awe of today…

I think over spring break I will try to make some real motion graphics pieces in these styles with stop motion and painting on film. Gold

I arrived Jan 21st 2007 in San Francisco, started the Academy of...

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:06:40 -0500

I arrived Jan 21st 2007 in San Francisco, started the Academy of Art University Jan 29th 2007 and now, in 2010, I will finish… who knows when I will be leaving SF, who knows where I will go, if I will stay or what Job I will get…
All I know is that life is going to be a little more variable in the next few months…
Looking forward to it…

Thanks AAU… Still have a few months, but our time is coming to an end

Beautiful Video by John Nolan (http://www.johnnolanfilms.com).

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:24:00 -0500

Beautiful Video by John Nolan (http://www.johnnolanfilms.com).

Student Volunteer applications for SIGGRAPH 2010 end 15...

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:55:23 -0500

Student Volunteer applications for SIGGRAPH 2010 end 15 Feb!

http://www.siggraph.org/s2010/call_for_volunteers/student_volunteers/index

Lullatone Music...

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:52:57 -0500

Lullatone Music Generator
http://www.lullatone.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/raindrop.swf
Beautiful flash based music generator made by a beautiful band….

ストロングマシン２号 (strong machine 2 -her dad is strong machine 1) is...

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:19 -0500

ストロングマシン２号 (strong machine 2 -her dad is strong machine 1) is one of the most amazing dancers I have ever seen. Not just cause of the dancing, but also the projects she works on.

Polysics used her for their music video I My Me Mine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9wSMuCJCkQ) where I first saw her.

If you search for her (or her real name Mao Murakami http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Murakami) you will find amazing commercials and videos she has worked on.

The one above is one of my favs, I love the dad, I love the slow mo and I love her cheeky confidence…

Another one of those “why didnt I think of that”...

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:55:25 -0500

Another one of those “why didnt I think of that” moments…

Beautifully done new commercial for Barclays by the Mill…

http://motionographer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/barclaycoaster.mov

Musical and Visual Gold from South...

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:02:00 -0500

Musical and Visual Gold from South Africa…
Introducing….

Die Antwoord

Bruno Dayan takes some of the most beautiful photos I have...

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:40:12 -0500

Bruno Dayan takes some of the most beautiful photos I have seen…
Not all are safe for work, but all are gorgeous…

Lose yourself in Bruno Dayan
http://www.brunodayan.com/

VFX and Televison… who would have thought they would look...

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:45:12 -0500

VFX and Televison… who would have thought they would look so good together

About 1 year ago a friend of mine Tadashi asked me to add some...

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:10:16 -0500

About 1 year ago a friend of mine Tadashi asked me to add some music to his album. Tadashi was making his debut album under the name Zaion (http://zaionrecordings.com/). I met Tadashi in Japan in 2005 when my band ettouchi (www.myspace.com/ettouchi) was playing at Milk in Ebisu. Tadashi is 1/2 of a band called 13cm (www.myspace.com/13cm) who was playing the same show. We fell in love with their music, went to all the shows we could after that and were so happy to have met Shotoku and Tadashi.

Then in 2006, Tadashi moved to San Francisco.

This was about 1 year before I even considered moving here. When I finally arrived in SF I was so happy to have someone to go to shows with, talk music and just happy to be around Tadashi again.

So anyway, last year Tadashi asked me to add some sounds to his album and I jumped at the chance. I worked on the song “Nomadic Landscapes” which is the first track on the album. I had only heard the version I had given to Tadashi which was unmastered and hadn’t yet been integrated properly.

This week I got my copy of the album “Nomadic Journals” by Zaion and it is beautiful. I am not sure if it is available in the USA at the moment but you can buy it from http://www.zooooo.jp/

Have a listen on his website and tell us what you think… I was so happy to be playing again and even happier to be doing it on a beautiful project like this…

Thanks Tadashi it is golden

I have been trying a few new tutorials and styles recently to...

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:56:17 -0500

I have been trying a few new tutorials and styles recently to help me get faster at photoshop and better at design.

This is a simple design i made last night for fun… I think I will do more to it soon, but for now… meet the Lantastic

Sometimes something comes along and reminds you how beautiful...

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:53:00 -0500

Sometimes something comes along and reminds you how beautiful things can be. This short is basically a movie of buildings, beautiful places shot in beautiful ways, but one of the things that blows me away is that it reminds me of when you walk into a beautiful place and your mouth drops… a little smile comes and you are in heaven.

And then you find out that this beautifully made short is…. unbelievably all cg….
watch it and fall in love with design again…. fall in love with buildings…. loose your breathe.

Compositing breakdown

http://vimeo.com/8200251

I have recently found the work of Matthew Lyons (...

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:22:53 -0500

I have recently found the work of Matthew Lyons ( http://matthew-lyons.blogspot.com/ ). His style is amazing and his use of colour and form blows me away…

I am really starting to get into design and am trying to suck up as much info and tutorials as I can to get better. I think design is really one of the big things that can hold a VFX artist back. I can use a lot of amazing programs but without the creative magic that designers can bring, I am only one piece of the puzzle. I need to work on this so over the next few weeks I will try to post new designs and stuff that I do to get peoples opinion and just to better myself.

If anyone has any suggestions of designers, tutorials or books please let me know… I am eating this stuff up at the moment and am hungry (^_^)

For a bit of fun….This is the original intro for my 2010...

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:07:03 -0500

For a bit of fun….
This is the original intro for my 2010 demo reel…. it got too long so i cut it down to what you see in the reel, but it was pretty fun to make
thanks to the lantastic for being a sport with the camera….

The piece is based upon a 3d tracking technology developped at...

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:35:00 -0500

The piece is based upon a 3d tracking technology developped at the Ishikawa-Komuro laboratory in 2003, using a laser diode, a pair of steering mirrors, and a single non-imaging photodetector called the “smart laser scanner” (for details, see here). The hardware is very unique: since there is no camera nor projector (with pixellated sensors or light sources), tracking as well as motion can be extremely smooth and fluid.

More info on the markerless tracking marker laser things (http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/perception/SmartLaserTracking/index-e.html)

When I was a kid, my brother Peter taught me a few things…...

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:26:00 -0500

When I was a kid, my brother Peter taught me a few things… one of them, was that Germans and Russians make great cameras…

He would back up this theory by showing me is baby, the minox c spy camera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minox). I would oogle at this bad boy for hours.

This Christmas, he gave it to me…
Gold, pure gold.
I have hit ebay buying old microfilm (8x11mm!!!)… I will post results when I have them…

What a MERRY CHRISTMAS

Today Josh Pines (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003256/) came to...

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:34:11 -0500

Today Josh Pines (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003256/) came to school to talk about Digital Intermediate and colour in general…

It was amazing. He has opened my eyes to some amazing colour tricks and given me an understanding(ish) of the whole DI process.

I think I learnt 15 weeks worth of colour from just being in the room with him…

golden

ali sent me this for my birthday…gold

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

ali sent me this for my birthday…
gold

so it has happened….i am 30…life is still golden and...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:44:00 -0500

so it has happened….
i am 30…

life is still golden and i am still not scared of kangaroos