Christmas at DR

It seems like christmas will never end and we just created new graphics for the worlds oldest TV show: “Julehilsen til Grønland”. Below is the intro and three of the breakers used in the show.[kml_flashembed movie="http://stupid-studio.com/flashcontent/stupid_flv.swf" height="315" width="420" fvars=" moviename = dr-greenland ; moviepath = http://stupid-studio.com/flashcontent/video/ ; stupidred = 167 ; stupidgreen = 194 ; stupidblue = 85 ; stupidalpha = 100" /] DR – Christmas cards for Greenland.

For the design-interested: The graphic was created completely in After Effects despite it’s 3-dimensional look. Because of the tight deadline, a great part of stock imagery was used and composited into the final design, combining real-life pictures of snowpiles, christmas trees, moon, skies and a lot more. To add some life to the setup, Trapcodes Particular was used to create the snow effect.

Examples of some of the images composited into the final design

Sweet Christmas Again

At first we had to take them down, and christmas was so far away. But now they are finally on-air, and we are proud to present: This years christmas idents for TV 2.[kml_flashembed movie="http://stupid-studio.com/flashcontent/stupid_flv.swf" height="315" width="420" fvars=" moviename = tv2jul2006 ; moviepath = http://stupid-studio.com/flashcontent/video/ ; stupidred = 167 ; stupidgreen = 194 ; stupidblue = 85 ; stupidalpha = 100" /] TV 2 Christmas Idents

I Can See Sputnik!!

Finally, finally, finally! The online on-demand channel TV 2 Sputnik now supports Apple computers. This way we’ll have to squeeze in eight more hours of tv every day. Damn it’s rough.

CNN Watch Out!

Today will see the launch of Denmarks first around the clock, 24-7, threeee-sixty-five, we-are-everywhere news channel – TV 2 News. We can’t really figure out if they really bought that helicopter, but it still looks really promising.

It will be interesting to see their programming, especially if (Continue reading…)

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The Shuffle

A new fantastic commercial from Apple is out… This time it’s the iPod shuffle that’s writing history. Cool.

Character Animation

This is probably just about as wild as it gets: YouTube video showing 4 intensive minutes of animated doodling. Wicked.

Hello World

Today we launched the first incarnation of the STUPID website and we have such a great feeling in our little round bellies.

The site will be used to publish the rants and raves of our lives – Not only creatively, but also the visually prominent highlights of our stupid ideas and thoughts will go up here.

We would love if this place could evolve into a small creative community, so please write comments on our stuff, send us emails, complain about poor navigation, become a part of our network, and if you’re into nerdy stuff, see if you can find any bugs.

Guidance for the unknowing
The site is build on ideas from the weblogging world. This means that post are ordered chronologically and are divided into sub-categories. On some posts it is possible to write a comment or read more than the visible excerpt: Look just below any of the posts for a “Add comment” or “Continue Reading” link.

At the bottom of the page you can read older posts by clicking the link “Previous Posts“.
Go have fun.

-DANIEL & LARS

Cheerio sweet christmas

It’s getting cold here in Denmark and we are actively preparing for a good long dreamy, pork-filled christmas hibernation. In the meantime we have created these sweet crispy christmas idents for TV 2… They will be up here very soon – We just have to wait for them to premiere on the TV 2 mothership.
The music is made by the fantastic blip-blop-i-love-my-laptop musician Tobias Winberg and the tune is taken from a complete album that we are currently compiling. STUPID will be involved in the cover design and publishing, but that’s a completely differente story.

Tally ho ho.

(The idents were up here shortly, but we had to take them off because they had not yet been aired on TV 2… Bummer)

Jeans and Rock’n'Roll

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This has been a sideproject for some time now, and we have all our fingers crossed that the final result will be published so soon now… We have never known busyness to this extend, before we met the people at Jack and Jones!…

In April they asked us to help them create a new graphic style for their in-store billboards and window displays. The project was kicked of with a creative workshop and since then it has been one small step at a time… But here you can have a look at some of the sketching, scratching and drawing. The final images are close to final result, that we hopefully can publish here shortly.

Anyway, some of it should be out now as their new shopping bags, and hopefully more will follow soon.

-Daniel

New era in Camera Dolly design

We all knew it. It was only a matter of time.

STUPID is about to revolutionize the way photographers and skilled cameramen approach photoshoots. Make way for the the brand new NitroDolly!

We have invested the better part of our savings and pension in a brand new Nitro driven car, making us capable of doing a 0-50 km/h camera-pan just below 2 seconds.

We are currently registering NitroDolly as a STUPID trademark, so as our army of lawyers say: “No one dare to copy this guys, the billions will be rollin’ in soon…“

Halloween in Tivoli

Daniel just created this spooky halloween sponsorclip for Tivoli and TV 2 Zulu. Unfortunately the two rides in the background had to be removed in the TV version – All that legal stuff… However, this is the version we like the best.
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What’s On?

Once again the quarterly music calendar from Franck A is out and it will be the symbol of a hard time to come – Franck A is closing everything down for the first 3 months of ´07 for a total makeover… But how about our latté guys? Have you seriously thought that through?
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Lectures at DGH

In the following months I will be giving a couple lectures at The Graphic Arts Institute of Denmark (DGH). The first lecture will focus on graphic design for television and the creative workflow in this environment, but later on there will be much more focus on the more creative parts of motion design. One discussion will be on how to make motion design seem alive and vibrant – This is of course closely related to correspondance between music and movement, and I’m really excited to see what I end up with! – It will be a huge challenge to suddenly have to explain, in words and formulaes, what have normally just come naturally…

- Daniel