...A plant that could live on Mars. On our screens. As a reminder of endless growth.

So the idea of creating my own plant came up from an earlier project Aquarenas. Keeping in mind she represents the power of nature in places where water is the most valuable commodity. She has biological features to defend herself such as a complex root system, thorns, reflective skin and many more based on my research Studie. Coding her in Houdini always lifts my mood. Imagine paying no attention to outer space. Full focus. Flow state.

Soon you will be able to experience the acoustic part in a VR space Cuddle Terapie. Feel them. Touch them. Interact with them.

...Ódu na obranné schopnosti pískomilných rostlin k přežítí v nepříznivém enviromentu.

Jak se adaptovaly k tepelným podmínkám dosahující 50 °C? Vyvinuly si své ochranné mechanismy.

Povrch rostlin mají pokrytý voskovou pokožkou. Slouží proti přebytečné absorbci tepla a způsobuje reflexi slunečních paprsků.

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Redukují listovou plochu a omezují výdej vody. Místo listů si vyvinuly trny, které nejsou náročné na údržbu a vedou vodu do těla rostlin. Početné množství trn je zároveň kryje před světlem.

(0:00 grass_structure)

Ve vyprahlých podmínkách je zapotřebí dostat se k podpovrchové kondenzované vodě. Rostliny tvoří komplexní kořenový systém, kterým nejen absorbují vláhu, ale také se uzemňují proti větrným vlivům.

(2:08 root_system)

Ve snímku jsem znázornil kromě flóry i samotné prostředí, duny – písečné převisy formované větrem.

(2:26 dunes_shaping)

...The person behind the production and camera Kristína Jamrichová sent me a brief with no exact idea of what she wanted from me. Told her I want to visualise the environment and characteristics of flowers, mainly their growth.

My first idea was about creating an environment where these flowers live in. So I showed her some virus-like generative animation and grains interaction between small particles and she was fine with it. A week passed by when I was researching structures and I've sent her some of these procedural videos of a root system. We both didn't know still what the other one is creating haha. A week before the deadline she sent me the first preview of 13 minutes long footage and asked me to do postproduction. At this moment I knew what I am going to do with all my snippets. Realized I need to conjoin the idea of my flowers into the video. Then I did some motion tracking of her "BBC looking like" footage from the Slovak environment. Planted my flowers in there and called it a day.

There were only a handful of people involved. Natálie Pleváková contributed to me the most with her sound design. The first time I played her audio file in the background of my visualisation I had slight shivers how dark could it get.

...Changing shape between more stable parts into dynamic movement of electricity. Soft pastel colours work as a contrast to dark synthetizer background. Well, for the first time I get rid of keyframes, that means animating through nods and expression only. It’s always enlightening to create something outside of your comfort zone.

...This time I recreate fluid density and interpret how sound waves influence such structure in different dynamic way. Many thanks to Entagma tutorials for opening me door to this world full of new entertaining paths.

...I always took myself more like an animator than a illustrator or a graphic designer. After finishing high school I was attempting many Arts colleagues. Sadly I didn't make it in any one of them due to lack of personal style. Realized that my skill is to help express other's static work in motion. I had oportunity to share my motion design experience with creative visual person Kristýna Londinová's poster.

Producing own audio track that capture untouchable tenstion, contrast attitudes, points of view. Kiss Her was second audio production since Balon.

...The theme was "To heaven" so I made actuall hot-air balloon out of plastic bags ducktaped around this jumping bouncing ball your mom helper her backs to stay straight right. Then I attached a fancy box with nylon strings that fishermen using. All of the sudden I had a prop to shoot!

The story fits background music I made - dreamy. Inside of a small diary these hands open they build a balloon with gestures that flies out "to heaven".

I was inspired by belgian artist Greg Barth when he shoot objects from 3D printer on a simple colourful backgrounds. Then he simulated visual of electronic music that he used in his animation.

Instead of using dynamic audio I lower tempo according to lightness of thematic approach. Video Balon is based on aesthetic feeling from sound and fluid motion. Before hitting play button make yourself relaxed and get uplifted.

...One of many events that were also happening in a church since it was somehow connected with MBPFW. I wondered why people keep coming in such numbers, which element makes Addict parties so famous, what would you like to see before the show to get excited. I stepped out of my comfort zone with 2D animations I made for Jakub earlier and I jumped into Houdini.

I've been playing with cloth materials at that time. I was fascinated with the wind interaction, and how much it stretches, how the cloth defines itself based on folds shadow. I gave it a shot and the results could look like a thrown out plastic bag or a national flag.

Suddenly a VERSACE TEXTURE IN SCARF HOOKED ON LOGO WITH JAKUB'S OWN SOUND DESIGN appeared. Splendid.

...So we did our creative session with Jacox, told him I want to bring something new and he was like: "3D PRINTING". Yeah we had fun with his printer already before when we tried test footage on my logo DONE.

We've made 13 different videos for main artists by printing these names and placing them to small scenes we created. When we finished they asked to do some more for labels playing there too. It was time to come up with new ideas and techniques.

It was refreshing project having no set visuals that we need to follow. All we did was capturing them and making it look cool in postproduction with sound.

..."We've got a job! It's going to be a new youtube interview channel produced by Matěj Kretík. There are going to be people telling their life struggles and moving stories." He presented me the whole brand visual in static form and I replied: "LET'S MAKE IT 3D."

The main task would be an Intro. I had a clear image in my head of how it could look like. Imagine monumental logo above the sports stadium. The main selling point would be the contrast between an enormous stage and an actuall size of the logo to enlarge its magnificent. This idea is inspired by the look of American entertainment. The next shot would be a detail of the direct punch of a boxing glove through the screen where shattered pieces uncover the final logo.

I presented the idea and I was told it won't be such sport-based.

I gave it a second thought. The monumental path should remain. So I thought about animation where the logo acts like an individual character that was built out of nothing. It should come together where it can be presented.

Well, I model the octagon from the logo. Let these elements shatter. Reversed the footage to make it comes back together. Adjusted cameras for smooth transitions. Added materials and lightning. Made a purchase from a sound library. Fired up Ableton. Mixed sounds together. Boom. Intro.

Go have a look for yourselves at how it turned out.

Fight Cast One

...This time The MAG changed headquaters so they decided to look a bit more clean and fresh to theirs young community.

Gnosis designed the first logo. Bold typo with street-like element "the" supports the idea. Like someone's tag on a wall haha. This time he presented me sketches with clean gradient colours. "It should feel like you are playing on Playstation" he said. I pretty much perfectly imagined how it should look like in my head. After we finished the project he said in podcast that he didn't feel like The MAG needs redesign. But still he had vision to freshen up colours for youngsters to please their eyes as main audience. To lit someone's gray day.

Take a look on The MAG Youtube channel by yourself.

...I WILL WRITE THIS SOON

...This button needs to be here so the function can actually work.

...Alright, imagine that you pitch a crazy new idea and it gets approved. Such a good feeling. Me and Jacox are talking about our creative process, concept ideas and nerdy stuff.

In the first episode we talk about this project Let It Roll.

...Let me present you a leisure activity during high school from time of ancients (2013). True joy of creating complex series therefore me and Zdenda went for pure art.

So cool.