WizNews: Issue 3
Formstorming, Ghibli, Watchmen and more
Dear Team Wiztoonz,
Welcome to the third issue of our weekly tech & edu newsletter. The idea is to share relevant industry and educational updates within our team. Would request everyone’s inputs to make it more of a mixed-bag of essential information - Do share interesting updates on your domain to mahesh ravi (via slack).
“You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.”― Paul Rand
TECH: This immersive short film was directed by award-winning director Lulu Wang (The Farewell), and was captured using the iPhone 12 Pro Max’s unique Dolby Vision feature, as well as its ultra-wide and telephoto lenses, low-light capabilities, time-lapse function, and stabilisation.
ANIMATION: This interesting style is getting popular in the Animation industry. Its called Ghibli and is inspired by the works of the japanese production house, Studio Ghibli. Here’s a video on how Ghibli look can be achieved in Blender.
DESIGN: Stumbled upon an interesting technique of visual thinking. It’s called Formstorming and focus on an element’s form than its function. A beautiful technique to experiment with letterforms. A good addition to our design curriculum.
WORD OF THE WEEK (via hiran.substack.com): Pareidolia (noun) - The tendency in people to find patterns and images, consciously or otherwise, in random places.The most recent example would be discovering ‘the demanding image of a woman’ in the Myntra logo, says Nikhil Narayan.
GAMING: Why a simple strategy game like Animal Crossing is the next big thing in Gaming. Here’s an article on it’s success and the psych behind it.
VFX: The reflective mask that Detective Looking Glass wears in HBO’s Watchmen is a technological marvel!
Thats it for today! Have a productive week. Adiós