Whats cool is that they dont just cover the most expensive gear, they cover some of the coolest stuff for a wide range of products. the iPhone OWLE Bubo is this housing for your iPhone that has a grip, an external mic as well as a interchangeable lens! They have a great article that shows a comparison and a full review of the product. They sell it too at a discounted price.

From their main website you can buy all the greatest gear, with discounted prices, their blog gives indepth reviews and true opinions from people that do this as a living every day and I’d trust their insights any day. I’d love to know of any other sites you might know of that teaches, discovers and tests the limits of the gear and trade that I have grown to love.

Here are the links to Film Tools:

www.filmtools.com
filmtools.wordpress.com

Great DSLR tools, tutorials and a wealth of knowledge can be found here:

http://philipbloom.net/

First things first… They will not share what you have purchased because that would be a little embarrassing if you bought some sort of sexy toys for a retreat with your girlfriend or wife and all your friends knew about it. Just saying. Go to the Amazon Facebook setup page and link your account. As soon as you get in, you get recommendations for products depending on what your likes, interests, favorites and key words from your profile.

One of the coolest features is seeing when your friends birthdays are and the gift suggestions they have for those people. So not only do you get to be reminded of up coming birthdays but you dont have to stress about what you are going to buy for them. In a pinch this is going to save people.

I connected my FB page with Amazon and its pretty cool. I love seeing all the recommendations as well as things i’d be interested in. Now I just need to go shopping! lol… I wonder if they are going to integrate a chat system so you can invite people to come help you pick something out. Directly from their signup page, here’s what they have to say:

Will my personal Amazon data remain private?

Your personal Amazon data will not be shared with Facebook:

• Amazon will not share information from your account with Facebook.
• Amazon will not share your purchase history with Facebook.
• Amazon will not attempt to contact your Facebook friends.
• Amazon will never post anything to your Facebook Wall without your consent.

For more information about Amazon’s privacy practices, please see our Privacy Notice.

For information about application and profile access, please visit Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.

What are the benefits of connecting Amazon and Facebook?

Tap into your Facebook network to improve your Amazon shopping experience:

• Discover Amazon recommendations for movies, music, and more based on your Facebook Favorites and Likes.
• See upcoming birthdays and find your Facebook friends’ Amazon Wish Lists more easily.
• Get great gift suggestions for your friends based on their Facebook Favorites and Likes.
• Explore your friends’ Favorites and see who has similar interests.

The theme of CMYK is so awesome because everywhere we look and everything we see is based of those 4 beautiful colors. Its such a universal language in design that I couldnt resist taking the time to do one. As the rules state, its no more that 5 seconds long. Thats it. I’ve see a lot of amazing work done in 5 seconds so I just wanted to try something new. Andrew Kramer from Video Copilot loves particles. I mean… LOVES particles and he also broadcasts a ton of amazing tutorials. On his blog he posted a project that used many different particle emitters in sync to audio. But the way he did it was pretty awesome. He based not only the amount of particles but the velocity at which they emitted with some basic interpolation expressions and the result was amazing. So I wanted to experiment with my own music doing a similar effect and what better way to try something new than to have a project that can be so vibrant with color like CMYK.

I used Cinema 4D to model and texture the letters as well as animate the camera. I tried a bunch of different things with nulls and ended up with a compositing tag on a null rotating the type so when I exported the AE file I linked my light to the path and then had all of my emitters emit from the light. I also have Video Copilots optical flairs and thats the shiny tip of the emitters.

The audio is from Sasha’s Airdrawndagger. I took the intro 5 seconds from Drempels and the beat from Wavy Gravy and slapped them together inside of Ableton live. Since I had the melody, bass line, bass drum and rim shot on separate tracks I time stretched everything to match up then exported the different tracks and put them into AE. From there I used Red Giants Sound Keys to get my frequency data for my expressions and there you have it.

After compositing everything and I wanted to add some motion blur, depth of field and a little twitch that syncs to the bass drum. I used RSMB and Frischlufts Depth of Field along with Video Copilots twitch to get the final touches in place. The render had some issues because I am exporting so many particles that the processor really has to think about it. I’m pushing this computer as far as I can with this project and its pretty cool to watch this come to life. I hope you enjoy the 5 seconds and wish me luck in the competition. Did I mention that? Yeah, there are prizes involved too!

It was kind of a pain to get this project to get of after effects. I had a lot of issues with the particles. The computer just couldn’t handle all of them… I also had problems with the audio export from AE. The sync was way off and I had to cut it out and add it in FCP… I’ll try to render a new one on my Mac at home and see what happens.

CMYK GSG 5 Sec Project Entry from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

• Travel to the Maldives for a relaxing vacation.
• Learn how to surf.
• Bungie jump in the amazon.
• Visit a 3rd world country and help a family out.
• Sky Dive.
• Visit all major cities in the US: New York, Chicago, Washington (To start it off.)
• Travel the US to see the most random land marks we have. (Giant rubber band ball).
• Work on a major motion picture, being on set and on location.
• Be a part of a animation studio movie.
• Base jump with a wingsuit. Call me crazy but when I saw this it hit my short list.
• Travel the desert on a Camel.
• Visit Japan.
• Drive an F1 car
• Fly a plane.
• See my daughter get married.

Well for now this is my short list. I tried to be pretty realistic with what I would like to do and I think having it in writing is a great first place to start. Wish me luck and I hope to see some of your own crazy ideas on  your bucket lists!

Ill try to take this in a series from when I started listening to music that I wanted to listen to and up to today. I started with tapes and a lot of them were sort of random picks because I didn’t really know what I liked so I got a lot of Madonna tapes, Roy Orbison, and I think the first tape I ever wore out on my yellow sony portable sport tape player was Roxette. Holy crap that was like 1986 maybe 1988. What I remember is being in Poland with my brother in law and my nephew camping at the lake that my parents got married. While we were there Poland was playing the world cup, I was catching some sort of crayfish and I think I even chased a few girls around… hehe. That might have been the beginning of listening to music endlessly and oh boy did I love to rewind that tape. For those of you that may not know what  tape is… yeah I’m not gonna go there.

Let me summarize from there up to middle school. My brother really exposed me to so many different genres of music and I can’t thank him enough for it. From Bob Marley to Depeche Mode I looked up to everything that he wanted to share with me and crank over my little boombox. hahaha… oh that boombox live forever… How random is this, my first CD I ever bough was the Jetsons Movie Soundtrack. Yeah, thats right. The Jetsons. I think at first it was more the excitement of having a CD and then the songs grew on me. My neighbor looked at me all crazy for it. So FFW to middle school. This is when I was introduced to Rap. Well actually YO! MTV Raps introduced me to it (So happy I lived to see the beginning). I tried the whole baggy pants, shirts that went down to my knees with a picture of some spray paint can in the bottom left corner of the shirt and to tell you the truth I’m not sure how much I really like it and I was more just trying to fit in. That time in my life was more a phase and it lasted up to my first dance in 6th grade where I heard Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under the Bridge. It was an instant conversion to Alternative just like that pill that turned me raver from country. Yeah, ill get to that.

The Alternative rock era really defined the childhood problems I was going through. A little insight into what I use to deal with was alcoholism, abuse and lack of friendships. STP, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers and so many more were the release I needed to run from the pains I endured. Little did I know that those bands would live with me until the now and probably forever. Now with the Alternative came Rock and Heavy Metal… Oh my parents really loved me when I played Megadeath or Pantera and Metallica. 3 things I remember about, ok 4 things that I can Share. 1: Coming back from Great America with my ‘cousin’ (not really, we were both just Polish) Marta, we drove past Shoreline Amphitheater and realized that we were missing the Nirvana concert… I think it was the last concert in the Bay before he shot him self. (R.I.P. Kurt, you died to soon.)  2: Playing Metallica – One at Martas house so many times and head banging so much that I literally, no seriously, literally could not hold my head up and I had to use my own hands to keep it afloat. 3: Marta bought me the Metallica Black album for my birthday at the Skating Rink (actual wheels) and it was one of the best presents I ever got for my birthday. I’m going to state that the album was their best album to ever be released. 4: The Metallica box album came out and we got our hands on it. Watched the live performance of Metallica on VHS in my room so loud that my parents heard all of the cussing, came upstairs pulled the VHS tape out, took the box set and it was never to be seen after that day… I saved the stencil though and painted it on my binders!! HA!

Highschool has to be the hardest time in a persons life. You are going through puberty, its all about fashion, status, cars, dating, clicks and everything else that comes with it. Now let me just say that up until high school I think that I can count the amount of friends I had with all my fingers and toes. I was not a popular guy but that first dance… the Aloha dance, Michelle Nessel picked me to be her boy friend and oh did my status change over night. I instantly had 3 football players hate me and I became friends with the most popular kinds in school because I landed the head cheer leader. Now let me remind you… I was an alternative rock kid that Rollerbladed. Yeah, long hair, metallica shirts and the head cheerleader. I had to adapt fast… but that really didnt happen because when my Grandma Passed (Love ya Grandma) my freshmen year in High School I became quite the angry little boy. I never really gave the top 40 music of that time a chance and I maintained my passion for Alternative and Heavy Metal.

Just a side note… I was in band from 5th grade through 12th grade playing in the Full Orchestra, Full Band, Quartette, Jazz Band  and Honor band. I played the trumpet as well as the french horn. In 5th grade I tried the violin (i dont know why) and it didnt really capture me. From there I wanted to play the Saxophone but we couldn’t afford it so I bough a trumpet at a little music shop that my mom made payments too. Nice of him to be that generous. And what kind of metal head musician would I be if I didnt try to play the guitar… Did that for a few years too. Jazz was my favorite because it was very complex, fast moving at times and you got to play solo’s and be very expressive. It also challenges you to try new things and push you limits. Miss that the most from my band experience. No band camp though…

So at some point in high school, around mid sophomore year or later I ended up becoming really good friends with the country click and it sort of began a whole new world for me. Friends from freshmen year also started to listen to country and we really dove deep into that genre. From the cowboy hats to the boots and buckle we would hop in our trucks, blair our country music and hit up all the rodeo’s and country clubs in the bay area. Oh yes… country. Now Country music is moving. Its real stories. What I love about it is the emotion that people put into their songs. The performances of the artists and of course the line dancing. So I didnt play an instrument I learned to line dance. So much so that I started teaching it during which I was learning country swing… There are so many different artists that I loved to listen to from Garth Brooks, Montgomery Gentry, Charlie Daniels, Hank Williams Jr. and Sr., and even the Dixie Chicks and Shania. The music was so much fun and to partner it with an activity like dancing was an experience that I will not forget. There was a lot of whisky and beer involved. To much whisky. I even turned my nephew country!! Got him a cowboy hat and all. My friends got him drunk at a party we had too… I said no drinking and they would secretly pass beers to him and he would run upstairs, chug the beer and come back for more. Good times.

So after high school and into my years of I have no idea what I want to do with my life so I will continue to drink and live care free my friends discovered raving. We were all into VW bugs and my friend Jason met Tamara who was a raver and country girl and she took them to their first rave -EDIT- (wait… don’t quote me on that, i’m not 100% sure that was at the way it happened the rest is accurate though.). I was all against it and yelled at them up and down about how its bad this and that.  Somehow they convinced me to try it once. No pressure right… Try it once, if you dont like it you dont have to do it again. So my first rave was at the old Q-Sar that closed down in Redwood City. We were shuttled in from across the freeway and during that shuttle ride I dropped for the first time. I really don’t remember much of the rest of the night because let me just say that I was riding high. So that is the pill that turned me raver. The next part we were at I had already bought raver pants and made some candi. It was the F8 campout in 2001. It was in the woods, 250 people, it had a beautiful garden and it was just such an unforgettable place and experience. Once the sun dropped down we got ready for the night ahead… a blue dolphin later I find myself floored infront of the speakers for… well I have no idea how long… But after I heard Mars play that epic set that Night I knew what I had to do… Become a DJ.

Starting my DJ career came to fruition a lot faster than I had expected. My sister (not by blood) lived a few doors down from me and little did I know… she had decks. A 2 channel Numark mixer with 2 Numark belt driven turntables! I borrowed those for probably 6 months. Thank you Kelly. I would not be here today with everything I have without those decks. =) My first set of records actually came from Tower records. I didnt know anything about the dance scene but I wanted to emerse myself in it. Shortly after I figured out that Tower Records was crap for good vinyl I began my crate digging at Remix Records in San Mateo. I really wanted to play trance and everything that Mars and Mystre were playing but I had no clue where to get their records. This is actually where Tamara comes in because Tamara actually took us over to House On The Hill in Hayward and introduced us to DJ Dingo and Reseese. (Sorry Daryl I butchered it I know…) Now this is where I got to play infront of my first crowd. It was one of the most nerve racking and exciting experiences ever. What made it so awesome was the encouragement that everyone in the house was learning and at the same point in knowledge. That was the true birth of DJ Foxx and my trance classics. And my Heelies. We partied there on Wednesdays. Oh yes… full blown parties on Wednesdays. At that time I looked to DJ’s in our local scene so Dyloot, DJ Denise, Morgan, Mars, Mystre and the rest of the top DJ’s in the bay for my musical inspiration. I knew what good songs were. What the hits were but I could never find any until I actually shopped at Skills DJ Workshop. Oh that was a money/time pit for so many of us but many was it all worth it. I’d do it 2 fold if I could do it again. Sitting in a record store and digging through the crates to hopefully find a gem that no one else had touched yet was amazing. Now my first gig, actual booking came from being friends with the promoters at Remix Records. James Dub booked me for my first show called Banana, opening up the upstairs room that was in a wherehouse above a 15ft half pipe. From Out of the Blue to Save the Rave I was droppin all the hard hittin tracks and I actually semi filled the room. That booking sent me forward to many more great adventures.

I hope I’ve kept with my inspirational music story throughout this because my life, the one you just had a glimps of is reflected through the music I listened to at the time. It really defined who I was and am today. I’m going to skip the next 10 years in the story and come to you as of now. The times have changed so much and the music has evolved because of the technology and all the artists that have really driven the path of production. I must say that my all time favorite artist is Sasha. The album that did it for me was Involver. It was such an amazing beyond now sound with such a seamless flow that to this day it lives on my iPhone, iPod, multiple CD’s and every computer that I need to be on. Its not the style of music that I DJ. Thats sort of on a different realm. The music I DJ is inspired by Sasha but the artists I choose from are Umek, Robert Babicz, Adam Parker, ThreeSixty and more. I’m more into the Techno, Tech House genre right now but I still love my Trance. For Trance, hands down, the most influential and creative artists are Myon and Shane 54. Their style is a whole new ball game. Second to them are all the artists that they remix and do mashups of. I can’t think of a bad MS54 track and they are pushing the envelope.

I’ve written so much but I need to say that I would not have the fiance I have, my child, and friends that are my family still to this day without the electronic music scene. Paul, Dan, Kristie, Jeremy, Seth, Jade, Statch, Lena, Shawn, Mea, Sierra, Mo, Jimmy, Jason, Kevin, Sonic, Happy, Jeff and so many more… (I’m sure ill add on to this list.) you have been an integral part of my life as a DJ, Producer, Friend and most importantly the person I have become today. From the music that has inspired my path to reach you and the life I live today, I am inspired by all who have been a part of it.

Made it this far? Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read my story know that much more about who I am today.

Mike “the monkey” Senfton. This guy comes from a DJ world (I do as well) and he is someone of real brilliance when it comes to creative expression through art. Not only does he understand that timing is key but he understands what beauty is in the presentation of a product or identity. His solutions to simple animations are really unique and something that not only myself but hundreds if not thousands of people look up to. Not until recently has he really come out to display what he does on camera and before that you can find his presence on Mograph.net. Which is just an amazing community to join if you do motion graphics. People really help out and try to do what they can to help you push forward. The Monkey was asked by the makers of Cinema 4D to do a presentation at N.A.B. about integrating sound into Cinema and after watching it I was blown away by all that he knows and shared with us. Not to long after he was approached by Nick Campbell (The Gorilla) and asked to do some tutorials for greyscalegorilla.com and he agreed. What an absolute pleasure to watch this man work and just play around with Cinema 4D. Here are two videos for you, the first is the NAB presentation and the second is the tutorial by The Monkey. The third is a piece of brilliance he created for ECHO.

Mike “the Monkey” Senften NAB 2010 from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

Joint Chains, Spiral Growth, Iterative Hierarchies, & the Golden Section from 4Dthieves on Vimeo.

Ecko Artifaks from 4Dthieves on Vimeo.

Nick “The Gorilla” Campbell. This guy… oh this guy is what this world needs more of. A man dedicated to not only creating beautiful motion graphics but on an endless question to share with us anything he can through his amazing tutorials. Most people who do tutorials they say do this and that, put in this number here and you get this. Not Nick. He takes the time to tell you why and what if this and if you did this you could get to the same place but we are going to go this way. He dives into a project with you and if he gets stuck while doing it he doesnt pause or cut the video so that he can make it perfect he troubleshoots right there. Live on camera. This is more valuable than the actual tutorial you are watching. Its something you only get to witness when you work on a project. Not only does he teach us he does a weekly live uStream for an hour where we either focus on a top or dive into questions right from the chat window. I’ve had my own questions answered during this and its so cool to have that kind of connection with a person you really look up to. He’s also done a lot with Photography and After Effects. He shows you not only 3D animation but compositing and lighting and so many different aspects of the video motion world… truly a guy that inspirational and inspired with positive energy for all of us to indulge in. One big thing that he’s done for the community is his 5 Second Projects. These are projects that anyone can do. It has to be animation, no longer than 5 seconds and inside a topic that he picks for us. The latest one was Nude No More and it was sponsored by Thredless. The winner was just announce and they got some cool prizes from Thredless.com. Check out the latest video tutorial from Nick on how to do a cool 7up animation as well as a video that tells you why you should do a 5 second project.

How To Make The Cherry 7up Look With Cinema 4D from Nick Campbell on Vimeo.

Five Reasons To Enter the FiveSecondProject from Nick Campbell on Vimeo.

There are more people that choose to inspire and share with us and I just want to mention them briefly. Robert Redman from Pariah Studios also shares a lot of knowledge with us and he too has some great tutorials for us. He goes beyond Cinema 4D and teaches Realflow and a few others. you can find him at http://www.pariahstudios.co.uk/ Secondly John Dickinson from Motionworks also share a lot of great technical info with all of us and you can find him at http://www.motionworks.com.au/ . Just recently I discovered James White from Signal Noise. Well I a have been a fan of his work for a long time but he is now making tutorials in graphic design as well as a live broadcast to share and answer anything we throw at him. He’s such a friendly guy and so respectful thats its no wonder why his art is so beautiful and I have much respect for him.

With all of these mentors that indirectly teach us we can really grow as a community and I hope that more and more people find the time to share something new with all of us. I hope that one day I too can share more than just a project file with the community and embrace you with knowledge about a certain technique inside C4D. The road is never ending with design and if you think you have nothing else to learn you are kindly mistaken because there is Always someone better than you. Find that person and learn from them. Drive yourself to try something new everyday you can. Go back and look through the basics just incase you missed a key point that could quicken an process. Immerse yourself in the community that shares and encourages through constructive criticism so that you too prevail in the endless stride to perfection. Be open, be kind and explore beyond the limits of your knowledge everyday.

EA is holding a massive $0.99 sale on over a dozen titles. The sale will only last 48 hours, so you have to act now! Here’s the list of games that are for sale:

$.99 for the first time

Command & Conqure™ Red Alert™ (was $6.99)
FIFA 10 by EA Sports™ (was $4.99)
Madden NFL 10 by EA Sports (was $6.99)
Need for Speed Shift (was $6.99)
Need For Speed™ Undercover (was $4.99)
SimCity™ (was $2.99)
Dragon’s Lair (was $4.99)
Jewel Quest Mysteries: Curse of the Emerald Tear (was $2.99)
Trivial Pursuit (was $4.99)

$.99 once or several time before

NBA Live by EA Sports (was $2.99)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour ® by EA Sports™ (was $2.99)
Battleship (was $1.99)
Connect 4 (was $2.99)
Surviving High School (was $2.99)
The Game of Life Classic Edition (was $1.99)
Clue (was $1.99)
Yahtzee™ Adventures (was $2.99)

While all the games are good values for only $0.99, I’d probably say Need for Speed: Shift is the “must get” game from the list. It has frequently been cited as one of the best racing games for the iPhone, so it’s a good one to have. All of the old school board games are also great to have if you love those family style games. Needless to say I bought about 8 of them!

I’m actually really excited about this. Not only do we get to enjoy the release of a magazine or comic but also you get it instantly. I’m not one for waiting on things and I believe that in our current economic status this is true across many other mediums.

Here are some things that I am really hoping to see come alive very soon. First off are interactive comics. Stories have multiple endings as well as different versions of the road to get there. Many times you are stuck with the view of one character, waiting to see what’s in stored for that cliffhanger but with live interactions you can really pick and choose where to go.

Secondly, you can really engage an audience with audio and visual cues. So for comic books add in various sound effects or even have someone read the graphic novel to you. For video you can link right out to the different clips you are referencing, you can set up specific animations to help tell your story. For the news papers you can link right to the live stream or already told news. Your images can really come alive and add subtle little motion to stills just to really wow a user.

These few things already create an experience like no other when you have such interaction. I know a lot of people say that they love the feeling of a book and bent corners, dirt and grime… well how about an app that reacts to where you close your book it folds pages. Over the course of time your book sees more and more wear on it. It’s a simple solution for the purest.

It’s interesting to see so many new articles now that detail how the magazine market is on the rise because of the iPad. While I’m sitting here on the plane to LA I peaked over to see some reading on this exact topic. It’s only a taste of what’s to come and the companies that rely on press can move to digital and we should see fewer publications shutting their doors. The iPad is a revolution for the rebirth of what was to be an extinct medium in today’s time.

Drop a note or go over to my contact page to send me an email. Thx for reading.

The first game we are going to show is Battle of the Immortals. The game is already in open beta and is really picking up a lot of traction. We’ve expanded to new servers and just really spent a lot of time listening to the user. The development teams are in-game, on the live servers listening.

The game is a lot of fun to play and visually stunning too. You start off and before you really know it you are at level 20 doing your first instance. This is definitely my favorite game we have! Its a fast pace Action MMO RPG that really hooks you off the top! A big focus is also the ‘Soul Gear’. The creative team really sat down and thought through each piece and how it looks, Animates and skills your character. Here’s a the Open beta trailer and a ‘BOI Blueprint’ of the Magus character Soul Gear.

Battle of the Immortals – Open Beta Gameplay Trailer from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

Battle of the Immortals Blueprint – Magus from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

The next game is Heroes of Three Kingdoms. This game is really based more on PVP with its campaigns. You do a campaign that has a player limit of 60 people!! Madness… Inside HoTK you get to choose to be part of the Wei, Shu or Wu and lead your character through defending you kingdom. Its unique in the way that the economy is really based on which kingdom is ruling the lands. So its very interactive with the community! Here is the teaser for HoTK:

Heroes of Three Kingdoms Teaser from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

Lastly we are going to reveal our game play trailer for Forsaken World. Its already in closed beta in China but we finally got our hands on the client and the game is really polished! I ill update and post it once we get back from E3!

As for the gear thats going with me to E3, its a pretty small but awesome kit! We just purchased the Canon 7D with a kit lens, the 24-135. We have the beachtek DXA-5Da for sound recording and the Sennhesier Evolution Wireless Mic Packs. All of this fits nice and snug into a little Pelican 1400 case. I really wish that this kit was my own. Its such a great run and gun setup. Once thing we might be missing is a shotgun microphone but I think I might have a solution for that… Here are a few shots of the toys I get to play with!!!

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So the first thing that I was asked to do was to create the companies Intro and Outro graphics. Simple task huh? The intro was to just a simple logo reveal and let people know who’s game this is. The other video producer here, Jason, had a simple vision and so I executed it in C4D. The outro was to be a little bit more elaborate and I had freedom to do what I wanted. So what I wanted to do was reveal a world with a sun, have the logo fly in over it and have our horizon line reveal by having the world somehow transform into it. So here are both of those videos for you to enjoy.

Perfect World Entertainment Intro Slate from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

Perfect World Entertainment Logo Animation from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

We just released open beta for our latest release, Battle of the Immortals and its speeding up to be quite the amazing game. We’ve had a lot of great response and the user feedback has really been essential to the development of the game. Its pretty awesome to see our developers be so in-tune with what the community wants and they make changes to the game based on those requests. Simple things like the in-game font, WASD movement and also new dungeons that give players a bigger challenge vs the typical instance run. I got a chance to create some developer diaries as well as our official Open Beta gameplay trailer. This game is a lot of fun to play and I think I had more fun playing than actually editing the game… lol.

Battle of the Immortals – Post Mortem from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

Battle of the Immortals – Adventures from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

Battle of the Immortals – Open Beta Gameplay Trailer from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

The next task I got to do was the Forsaken World logo animation. Since china only has the chinese version and we are making the E3 gameplay trailer for it I got my hands all over do the animation. It was a fun challenge to learn how to make fire wrap around 2D text and I learned a few new tricks on this one!

Forsaken World Logo Animation from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

Lastly, or at least the latest video that I can show publicly until after E3 is our Heroes of Three Kingdoms teaser. This is the first gameplay video about the game and I was excited to make it! The animations were a lot of fun to do too. Using concept art and doing a kind of Sherlock Holmes approach to it (the movie titles for the new movie) with ink style dissolves between rulers of the three kingdoms. Check out the video below!

Heroes of Three Kingdoms Teaser from Lukasz Pason on Vimeo.

I’ve got a couple more to upload and release as soon as I am able to so stay tuned and thanks for reading! Now if you want to learn more about the company, go to www.perfectworld.com or check out our youtube channel for all of our trailers!