Alex Roman has created this beautiful piece that tries to “illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view”. The entire piece is computer generated and demonstrates a tremendous amount of skill. Alex used 3D Studio Max, Vray, AfterEffects, and Adobe Premiere in its creation. Alex also created the music which was done in Sonar & EWQLSO Gold Pro XP. Simply amazing!

In an on-stage interview at the San Diego Ad Club, Alex Bogusky of Crispin Porter + Bogusky provides a behind the scenes look at many of the campaigns his company has worked on and shares some of his thoughts on various aspects of marketing. From Coke suing itself to Volkswagon’s Safe Happens, Alex has been constantly looking for ways to bring authenticity to messaging by “showing”, not “saying”.

Lee Clow and Alex Bogusky discuss the trends in today’s marketing and brand building. Specifically they discuss how integrating today’s culture of gaming is becoming more prominent in advertising and how they have incorporated the use of multiple forms of media to communicate brand messages. Lee Clow had famously worked on Apple’s advertising for years and Alex Bogusky is a rising star who’s worked on campaigns such as the Truth campaign and the Burger King games for the Xbox.

Coinciding with the launch of the BMW Z4 website, www.expressionofjoy.com has been launched with an over-the-top creation of an art piece using the new car to paint on the over-sized (100×200 foot) canvas. With a 300-horsepower paintbrush, 9 days, and top artistic talent, creativity abounds. The website features the event movie, a making-of documentary, gallery of stills, and behind the scenes video with the artists.

Rodrigo Rojas has put together a video showing the evolution of batman logos throughout its franchise history. Through the mediums of comic books, tv series, movies, and video games, the logo has been changed drastically since its first creation in 1939.

An award winning short film by Bruce Branit, World Builder tells the story of a man who builds a world for the woman he loves using holographic tools. Although the actual filming was done in a single day, post production took 2 years to complete. Bruce is a partner at T2, a visual effects house in Kansas City.

Edgar Muller, renowned 3D Street Artist, documented the making of “The Crevasse” at the “Festival of World Culture in Dun Laoghaire, Germany. View images of his other amazing street art at metanamorph.com.

In the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the head of Benjamin is 100% digital for the first hour of the movie. Ed Ulbrich, Executive VP at Digital Domain, talks about the experience of creating the new technology necessary to create such a realistic and believable face. Afterward, check out the behind the scenes video provided by Digital Domain.

Lev Manovich, Professor of Visual Arts at UCSD, talks about how art studies and high-performance computing are being combined like never before.

Graffiti artist DAIM chooses colors, brushstroke strength, and textures all virtually to create 3D art. Wearing a head mounted display he is able to see and move within his graffiti as he creates it. Three cameras track glyphs positioned on DAIM’s body which allow the augmented reality software to create the three-dimensional canvas. As augmented reality software and development tools become more robust a new landscape limited only by imagination is being created.