Check it out http://vimeo.com/24982650 All these techniques currently floating the multimedia boat…

This title sequence has so many ideas and realisations around a central theme of a dark view of a possible future. Enjoy. And if possible, watch fullscreen HD.

T-Mobile’s royal wedding spoof viral video was YouTube’s most viewed UK TV advert of 2011.

More than 24 million YouTube visitors worldwide have watched Prince Harry dancing down the Westminster Abbey aisle, before William and Kate make an entrance with their own outlandish routine.

Brands are increasingly recognising the power of social media to create campaigns that reach a global audience and can be shared, liked and commented on.

Imagine how much it would cost to run the two-minute royal wedding spoof on TV. And only events like the royal wedding itself would attract an audience of 24 million. In fact, wouldn’t it have been great for the ad to have been screened prior to or immediately after the real event? A case of art imitating life that would have caught out some viewers.

Of course, there’s a chance ads like these are too edgy to make it to primetime TV. That’s another example of the beauty of social media – you can be edgier.

Click on the image above for the royal wedding video and share your links to your favourite viral videos of 2011.

Oh, and for what it’s worth, that John Lewis advert featuring the insipid version of a classic Smiths tune is at number seven in the top 10 UK TV ads viewed on YouTube and Vernon Kay’s mum is at number 10.

“3 Dreams of Black” is an interactive music video developed in WebGL. Visit the site: www.ro.me. Most of what you see during the experience is not video, but is real-time rendering of visual models through WebGL, a technology that brings hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the browser. Combined with different live action and 2D-cell render animation assets it gives users a vivid visual and compelling musical experience where a story is told with new and ground breaking technology.

Learn more about the technology behind the production.

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

Nature never fails to amaze me – this footage was caught by a couple of friends during a chance encounter with a ‘murmuration’ of starlings. Breathtaking on so many levels. The sheer number of birds, the fact that they can fly so close, so fast, and never collide, and the mesmerising visual spectacle they produce as a result. I’m so jealous of these two girls you wouldn’t believe.

This year Linney have been working closely with Yamaha and Ben Spies from MotoGP to create images and a film made in Spain. Targeted at hard riding Supersports riders the marketing collateral was created and edited this summer.

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Last month myself, Michael and Iain travelled across to Vancouver to attend a conference called Siggraph (short for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques).  This is an annual conference on computer graphics.

The first Siggraph conference was in 1974 and is attended by thousands of computer professionals each year. Below are links to a few of the highlights we found…

Amazing interactive Mercedes website…

Homemade 3D Printer… We now own one of these, located in the multimedia area of design if you’d like a look!

3D Scanning iPhone app…

3d Tree Creation Software…

Clothes Designer…

ZBrush sculpting software…

Realflow, fluid simulations…

360 Camera…

Mirror to monitor vital signs, without any contact…

Moving Picture Company, inspirational special effects…

Compressed 02 from Kim Pimmel on Vimeo.

Compressed 01 from Kim Pimmel on Vimeo.

A couple of intriguing other-worldly films created by Kim Pimmel using ferrous printer toner and water. The magnetic properties allow the ink to be manipulated using magnets. Beautifully shot, the ink weaves its way through the complex structure of soap bubbles and creates strangely ordered and uniform patterns as it moves to the magnetic force.

More info can be found on Kimm Pimmel’s Vimeo profile