Erstellt am: 11. 12. 2009 - 13:07 Uhr
Today's Webtip: Oceansize
One of the things that digital evangelists like to talk about is the empowering nature of technology. You have probably heard it so much in the past that that idea has lost any kind of practical meaning. But it's one of the central aspects behind many of the problems we currently face.
When a kid and a computer can produce an entire album at home, or anyone with a camera phone can take potentially award winning photos, it means that great swaths of the economy of creation has become irrelevant.
For those of us who prefer to see the glass as half full, it also means that millions of people now have the chance to do things that only a select few could have contemplated only a decade ago. And some of them can do it in a quality that comes darn close to or even surpasses the feats of massive economic machinery.
I prefer to see the glass as half full, and when I run into projects like Oceansize, I'm almost ready to say our cups are running over. Four people, some computers, lots of talent and a good idea all come together to create a little over seven minutes worth of eminently watchable material.
I would like to be able to tell you more about the makers, but since their site is down, I cant tell you much more than what is on YouTube:
Oceansize is a short 3D movie made by 4 students of Supinfocom Arles in 2008. A spectacular sci-fi animation film by Romain Jouandeau, Adrien Chartie, Gilles Mazieres and Fabien Thareau.
I also know that it took them 10 months to make it. But maybe their site will be online sometime in the future.