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April 15, 2010, 5:23 pm

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I don’t often post about freelance work on this site — it’s more focused on my own projects. But once in a while I get to do some pretty cool stuff, and this is one of those times.

Over the winter, I had the chance to work with actor and producer Martha Burns to design and create a website for her short film anthology Little Films About Big Moments. I’m really happy with how the project turned out — I got to combine a couple of my obsessions into one piece of work, and the site feels like a really natural extension of the films.

I want to thank my friend Khoa Nguyen for acting as technical mentor on the project, and Martha and her production team for their support and great ideas throughout the process.

I hope you check it out: www.littlefilms.ca!

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Spike Solutions #1 (Diptych)

June 15, 2011, 9:06 pm

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Spike Solutions #1 (Diptych) from Jacob Niedzwiecki on Vimeo.

This is the first in an ongoing series of short, focused screen tests of generative compositing techniques. In this diptych, the left and right halves use the same video material and grid; the left crops each instance of the source to a grid square, while the right shrinks it. The video in any given zone of the left half is sampled (from that same zone) from the video in the corresponding location on the right half. In this screen test, each zone of video begins at a random point partway through the source footage.

Spike Solutions #2 (Diptych)

June 16, 2011, 3:19 pm

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Spike Solutions #2 from Jacob Niedzwiecki on Vimeo.

This is the second in an ongoing series of short, focused screen tests of generative compositing techniques. In this diptych, the left and right halves use the same video material and grid; the left crops each instance of the source to a grid square, while the right shrinks it.

In other words, the video in any given zone of the left half is sampled (from that same zone) from the video in the corresponding location on the right half. In this screen test, each clip begins almost in sync, with a slight offset, so you can see movements in the grid ripple from bottom right to top left. A stochastic (fancy word for ‘random’) process occasionally jumps individual clips forward, out of sync.

Spike Solutions #3 – Diptych

July 26, 2011, 6:01 pm

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Spike Solutions #3 from Jacob Niedzwiecki on Vimeo.

This is the third in an ongoing series of short, focused screen tests of generative compositing techniques. In this diptych, the left and right halves use the same video material and grid; the left crops each instance of the source to a grid square, while the right shrinks it.

In other words, the video in any given zone of the left half is sampled (from that same zone) from the video in the corresponding location on the right half. In this screen test, each clip begins almost in sync, with a slight offset, so you can see movements in the grid ripple from bottom right to top left. A stochastic (fancy word for ‘random’) process occasionally jumps individual clips forward, out of sync. The perspective slowly fractures from a hard grid to shifting shards.