WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT WHAT WE DO

We create enriched digital animation powered by an exquisite tension between the anchoring reality of its source video and the scintillating energy of digital re-painting.  It's along this border between the underpinnings and the eclectic painted surface that the creative spark occurs. Our expertise lies in knowing how to explore this fine line.

Victrolux animation is created using a combination of digital painting (essentially a form of rotoscoping), hand drawing and image processing.  The primary tool set includes Studio Artist 4 and MSG Evolver by Synthetik Software. Our work is conceptualized to take full advantage of these incredibly deep applications, developed by (genius) John Dalton. Other tools include Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Motion and ProTools.  These digital tools are driven by our deep background in the visual and sound arts -- film, photography, photo hand-coloring, audio collage and by a love of all art -- from cave painting to the avant garde.  Our methods are modern; but we apply them with the focus and intensity of monks.

A still frame from Skate Rays, employing digital hand-painting and auto-rotoscoping.  An example of a quite oblique relationship between the source material and the final animation.  Skate Rays was born from a small, low resolution source video of skateboarding; yet the canvas was painted large, in full color and in an uncompressed codec.

 

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