Findings by Steffen K

Updates!!

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:17:00 +0200

I’ve been neglegting my blog for a while - and the only new content has been the automated import from my twitter feed. Sorry about that!

So here’s a long overdue update on what’s new..

Gaia10 Trailer
The project I recently finished with two of my close friends from Hyper Island, Fredrik & Simon and Marius Bauer / Sublevel, has gotten a lot of nice response. It was posted on several design blogs which made us all very proud - and it was also featured on the front page Behance!

Im really happy about the way we got this one wrapped cause it was a long project and required a lot of coordination between myself and the others. Fredrik is based in Amsterdam and interning at Onesize, Simon is in London and working at ManvsMachine, Marius is in Munich and i’m in New York.

Im surprised how well we managed to collaborate using Skype and transferring (huge) project files via Dropbox. If you havnt seen it be sure to check it out on vimeo. Also we updated the Behance project to include a more detailed description and making-of frames.

Internship & moving to NYC
I’ve been living in New York for 6 weeks now. Wow. It’s been challenging and very rewarding. My internship at Digital Kitchen is going well and I am very impressed by their approach to the projects we work on.

So far i’ve mostly been working with our CD Rama Allen and creatives Bryce Wymer (check out his awesome blog), Ben Grube, Audrey Davis and Eric Chang. Eric is doing a interesting project by the way.. Output a piece of artwork every day for a year.. Follow it on his blog.

Collaborations
I’ve gotten a bunch of opportunities to do some very interesting collaborations with super talented people. Im extremely excited about this but it’s too early to share the details.. Im planning no less than five right now (!) so it will be a busy and creative summer. First one is with illustrator Jared Nickerson.

That’s it for now..

Reform Revolution

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:54:00 +0200

Gaia Trailer is featured on http://reformrevolution.com/ - NICE!

GAIA10 Official Trailer

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:52:00 +0200

The GAIA10 Trailer is finally done!! Check this collaboration I did with Marius Bauer, Fredrik Ekholm and Simon Holmedal!

Gaia curator Marius Bauer approached me with a suggestion to collaborate on making the first official trailer for the Gaia project and thus adding moving images to the Gaia project for the first time.

Teaming up with fellow Hyper Island motion designers Fredrik Ekholm and Simon Holmedal, the team created the trailer working in an online collaboration from 4 different countries based out of New York, Amsterdam, London and Munich. Musician Kevin Durante, an contributor to earlier Gaia releases, joined in to make a custom sound track - that will be released later as a full length track on the forthcoming Gaia album.

Minor update on www.steffenk.net

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:43:30 +0200

Minor update on www.steffenk.net:

Updated the site to match my current location, internship and added a portrait to the about page..

Week 1 at D-Kitchen

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:57:00 +0200

First week at @digitalkitchen NY was intense.. A lot of new impressions and nice people.

Graduation

Fri, 28 May 2010 23:30:00 +0200

wow! I am now a Hyper Island graduate and moving to New York City tomorrow!! Exciting times ahead

Last week in Hamburg!

Mon, 17 May 2010 12:46:00 +0200

Next week Copenhagen & Karlskrona.. The week after that NYC!

Motion Test 100426

Tue, 04 May 2010 14:07:00 +0200

I did this is a motion test last week. I wanted to check out some options when rendering a depth map and motion vectors from C4D.

It’s based on the same technique from the Quants video with lines and a centered sphere done in collaboration with Anton Boman: vimeo.com/8150830

After posting it, I got some questions about how to do the connected lines around the main object, so I thought I should share the technique here on the blog. It’s done with Cinema4D’s MoGraph module and is not too complicated to set up. Without going too technical, the basic idea is to use a Tracer Object to connect cloned elements. If you are familiar with Cinema4D this will make sense to you hopefully. Check out the screenshot below. The objects to generate the lines are highlighted..

Also, check out the comments about motion-blur issues and improvements on it at vimeo.com/11330269

Frame updated reel

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:45:00 +0200

Really awesome reel from @thisisframe Wauw! http://www.frame.dk

"Disk-it" sticky notes

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:45:00 +0200

How cool is that!? No more regular post-it’s for me! RT @Behance: Nostalgic for floppy disks? “Disk-it” sticky notes! http://cot.ag/aBmYYB

Heute Nacht EP - Out Now!

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:47:32 +0200

My brother’s first EP is out today! Greenville Massive’s Heute Nacht EP - Available exclusively at Beatport for now - but soon out on iTunes and all the major online stores. The EP has four tracks total. Two originals and two remixes.

Take a listen/buy here.

Way to go Simon and Jesper! I bought it already and so far my favorite track is “Brownies - Original Mix”. More from Greenville Massive here.

If you happen to be in the northern part of Denmark, there’s a release party tomorrow friday at V4, in Aalborg.

The new Behance Network

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:52:00 +0200

The beta of the new Behance Network is up. Check it out. It’s really slick! Well done!

http://beta10.behance.net/

Reel Roulette: Top 20 Reels

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:51:31 +0200

Reel Roulette: Top 20 Reels:

My reel is ranked #12 at Reel Roulette right now.. Help me getting even higher by voting on it here: http://reelroulette.net/top :-) Thanks!!

Cargo Collective

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:46:00 +0200

It took some time, but now I finally moved my portfolio to Cargo Collective! Check it: www.steffenk.net #cargocollective

Cartoon Brew article: "Most Unpaid internships are Illegal"

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:38:00 +0200

Cartoon Brew article: "Most Unpaid internships are Illegal":

kirstenlepore:

It’s about time this came to the forefront. Happens all too often, and I can’t stand it.

Open House at Hyper Island KNA

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:25:00 +0200

RT @hyperisland: Please come and visit Hyper Island in Karlskrona http://bit.ly/cY1BQO

Reelroulette

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:34:00 +0100

Reelroulette is a pretty cool service. I put my reel up a couple of days ago and already it has gotten some nice attention. I think it’s a good way to expose your work. Check it out! http://reelroulette.net/steffenknoesgaard

The service Flavors.me launched recently, and I’m...

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:45:00 +0100

The service Flavors.me launched recently, and I’m impressed by how well it works. So what is it? Well, this is the official description:

Flavors.me allows anyone  to create an elegant website using personal content from around the internet.

Ideal for personal homepages, lifestreaming, splash and microsites, celebrity fan pages, commercial promotion, brand marketing – and everything in between.

Basically it pulls all the feeds/streams from your favorite social media sites. I connected it to my Linkedin, Vimeo, Tumblr blog, Lastfm and Twitter - but there’s a lot more services to choose from.

Check my flavors page here

Cloudania

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:24:00 +0100

Solid work from #hyperisland IAD10 at http://cloudania.com/ #cloudania

Creative Circle Awards 2010

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:39:00 +0100

Congrats to @thomasfiil, @mabu_llshit, @carolinsellman and the other peeps at @stupidstudio for 2 x nominations for Creative Circle Awards!

My former workplace Stupid Studio is shortlisted for two CC-Awards. I had the pleasure of working on one of the projects - DMA09.

Check out the full list here (in danish).