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Boards Magazine - 12 Innovators you need to know

By luc March 11th, 2010 0 Comments

Who: Minivegas
Founders: Luc Schurgers and Dan Lewis
Innovation in: Directing

Why you need to know about them: The modern director is tech savvy, DIY and media agnostic, as au fait with programming, apps, animation and post-production as live action, and the creative possibilities that come with that are boundless.

“Whether you’re directing a traditional live-action spot, or a rich media project, I don’t really see a difference,” says 30-year-old London-based director Luc Schurgers [pictured], who with Dan Lewis makes up Nexus- and Green Dot-repped Minivegas. “We can do pretty much everything. We do our own programming, 3D and compositing.”

A cursory glance through current projects from Minivegas, (which formed as a collective in 2005 but became a duo in August 2009), backs that breadth of creative scope. Schurgers recently shot a live-action comedy spot for Snack-A-Jack, and a CG bonanza for the Star Wars Clone Wars console game. Perfect for time-starved travelers, Happy Granny is an iPhone app that sends a real postcard of photos taken on the iPhone. In conjunction they’ve also created a hilarious, fully-animated viral and website.

In terms of matching music to visuals, however, they’re really pushing the envelope. The pair are working on a real-time, audio-reactive projection system that visualizes music for a live performance pitting labels Warp and Ninja Tune against each other. As well as running a physical gallery and creating installations, their experimental, virtual gallery manifests music as fantastic 3D sculptures of sound, while gesture-recognition technology allows users to interact with the music and move around the space.
“[Directing is] a feeling communicated, whether that’s something you do via sound analysis or live-action photography. The ideal situation is to mix projects: programming, then live action for the next one, then 3D. It keeps you on your toes,” says Schurgers. EW
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minivegas @ The Dutch Cultural Pop-Up Space

By luc March 11th, 2010 Closed

Baked Beans, Circus Family and Minivegas: a new exhibition in London features three innovative Dutch design studios working across digital design, animation and multimedia. By Editor Design.nl / 21-01-2010

Chips with Everything

The exhibition is curated by Ken Pratt, the independent curator of London’s new Dutch Cultural Pop-Up Space - a centrally located white-walled gallery. The Space has plans for a broad programme of exhibition/display activities showcasing the best examples of Dutch contemporary art, craft, architecture, media, performed arts and design culture.

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NCCA presentation

By luc March 11th, 2010 Closed

On Friday the 29th of January we did a presentation at the National Center for Computer Animation. We talked about a few recent projects, showed some CG robots and demonstrated our real-time graphics projects. It was nice to be back in Bournemouth, but I couldn’t believe that it was almost 9 years ago since I studied there. Time goes fast…

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Computer Arts - The new wave of animation

By luc February 11th, 2010 0 Comments

When Nexus Productions signed Minivegas to their group of directors in January, it demonstrated one of the emphatic trends going on in animation at the moment; while Minivegas’s animation skills are indubitable, we suspect that Nexus was just as interested in the more experimental work Luc Schurgers and Dan Lewis have been doing.
The voice-triggered video idents for S4C and the more recent interactive sculpture projects show that Minivegas has no trouble combining innovative coding and illustration with motion content.

The modern world of animation wants more from its creative’s then the ability to manage a timeline add an effect or make characters shake their booties. Aesthetic judgement and attention to detail are necessities. The myriad of styles and the crafting capabilities of today’s illustrators bring texture and authenticity to the mix. The recipe also requires dollops of experimentation and innovation. As with Minivegas, that might involve playing with code, or it could mean storytelling skills, a great eye for detail or a gregarious let’s-try-it attitude.
The world of animation is crying out for these ingredients because there are so many things clients want to animate. Movies and television have been around for decades, but today companies want to hit consumers via their mobile phones or the web – look at the rise of YouTube virals. There are animated posters in airports, underground stations and at bust stops. It’s as though the still image is losing its significance.

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The 2009 Directors Roundtable

By luc March 11th, 2009 0 Comments

A dozen of the industry’s finest came together to laugh, kvetch and inspire each other with their experiences on set and off.

Is there a recipe to making a great viral? How should you treat treatments? What’s it like to grow up on the set of Blade Runner. . .or Jackass? We learned all that and more last month at the SoHo House in New York, where a dozen of the industry’s finest came together to laugh, kvetch and inspire each other with their experiences on set and off.

participants: Dante Ariola, MJZ / Craig Gillespie, MJZ / Michael Haussman, HSI and Person Films / Jeff Labbe, Sonny London / Dave Meyers, @radical / Phil Morrison, Epoch / Noam Murro, Biscuit Filmworks / Jake Scott, RSA / Luc Schurgers of Minivegas, Anonymous Content / David Shane, O Positive / Benzo Theodore, Park Pictures / Stacy Wall, Imperial Woodpecker

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David Mann

By luc December 15th, 2008 Closed

Went to a bike show this weekend and stumbled upon an art exhibit by David Mann (September 10, 1940 – September 11, 2004). He was an American artist famous for his paintings of motorcycles and biker culture. Most of his works have been for the motorcycle industry, especially for motorcycle magazines… There are some pretty cool paintings in his site. The painting below is probably one of his most famous ones.

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