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14. VIV Mag Interactive Feature Spread - iPad Demo
1 year ago
Together with co-directors Cory Strassburger and Ming Hsiung, we produced a motion magazine cover and feature spread for Viv Mag - an all digital magazine, which would allow us to create content that will be able to live on the iPad and other tablet devices where digital magazines can live.
  • Gabriel Scindian plus 1 year ago
    Alexx! Amazing work. I knew from seeing your creation of the "Living One Sheet" you would be pioneers of this digital content media era.
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  • enzo treppa 1 year ago
    awesome!
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  • Mark Seaton 1 year ago
    This is exactly why I will buy a new iPad when they are available here in canada, great video and concept!
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  • Can the iPad really do all these motion well? great. thanks for sharing!
  • The problem with this I see is that typographically you can't read any of the copy!!!! I'd prefer text to be legible if you really want people to _READ_ your content :)
  • Craig Shields 1 year ago
    You can't read it because it's not even half the size of the actual iPad. Also, I believe that the iPad will work like the iPhone allowing you to double-click the article to enlarge it.
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  • VJ Oz 1 year ago
    I would read magazines more if they were this awesome....
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  • James Burns 1 year ago
    Very pretty, but do you really think that magazines would have the budget to do this sort of production on a regular basis?

    I find that unlikely.

    Nice proof of concept, though.
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  • paramon plus 1 year ago
    amazing work
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  • Marcelo Rodrigues pro 1 year ago
    Great job guys!!!
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  • Naya 1 year ago
    5 other tablets to forget iPad bit.ly/cdvksZ
  • Dominic Sotirescu 1 year ago
    why forget the iPad, it's here and perfect in every aspect...
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  • A9K Systems 1 year ago
    Really slick - love it
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  • Robby Cornish 1 year ago
    coolest thing ever!
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  • Luk Balcer 1 year ago
    Fookin great! Congrats to the team!
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  • Freddy Samuel 1 year ago
    looks great... keep up the amazing work
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  • Timid Spit Wad 1 year ago
    It's cool, but if this increases the cost of the magazine, just give me the written word, I've been very happy with that for years now.
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  • Chris Kinsman 1 year ago
    I love this piece and I want it to succeed wildly for people like me in this industry. I'm now interested in how the cost will be subsidized to produce something this great and what it will take to engage publishers, readers and those who are going to pay for it.

    If the standard advertisement-based revenue model is going to be used for product placement, embedded analytics code or interactive ads, then I see some potential. But we all know that revenue-generating models translated from old media to new media have never really worked. A lesson learned many times over by the publishing houses. Now is the opportunity to really think outside the box.

    In the short term, I see articles like this being produced in very limited runs to see if their is a pent-up demand. If publishers can quantify revenue based on a revolutionary new business model, then we might see it grow. For example, sharing the article across social networks might create a viral effect and increase demand to pay for the shared content.

    Paying for the content might give users special incentives that they couldn't get from the typical pay-per-click advertiser on a website. A new business model could potentially introduce an entirely new set of revenue streams that have yet to be invented for publishers and advertisers.

    I really hope this works, but time will only tell.
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  • Jacques Alomo 1 year ago
    This is a completly new approach. I'm just a little bit skeptical about the amount which will have to be put in every single page. Does this really pay off?

    Anyway! You got a positiv feature on the showreelarchive.com !! We all want to see more!
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  • Damien O'Malley 1 year ago
    Implicit in this project is the power structure of the dying Madison avenue ethos - advertisers controlling the message. With all this new technology the best they can come up with is a magazine cover/story that moves? An utter poverty of the imagination. These guys are competent technicians - not anything remotely resembling the Avant-Garde (which the lead 'creative' actually has the gall to suggest). What a foolish waste of resources.
  • Layla 11 months ago
    But it's a start though, isn't it? It's not just a moving story, there's an element of interaction to it. It's hard to create much more at such an early stage because clients will think it's 'too complex for the audience' which a lot of them do. I think this is a great start for creating a cross-over between the flat based magazine format, with the digital based tablets.

    If you have better ideas to push the technological capacity, suggest them - and do them. But don't just belittle people's work because they had the audacity to do it first
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  • noi leman 1 year ago
    amazing!
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  • Amul Patel 1 year ago
    wow amazing compositing/layout/concept job guys!

    As for biz model... who knows would be nice if there was a standard for digitalmags that will work on all tablets.

    And with enough reach... or digi magapp downloads this could work for specific niches with ad budgets.

    Although you can do wonders now with canon 5d/cinema4d/smoke/fcpStudio worklflow and distrubuted teams.
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  • Carlo 1 year ago
    Reminds me of these unskippable DVD menu transitions which tend to steal my time when all I want to do is watch the movie.

    It's a nice concept, but IMHO not suited for content consisting mainly of the written word.
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  • Josué Martínez plus 1 year ago
    Excellent, I love it.
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  • Daniel Neumann 1 year ago
    I wonder if the iPad will pull the text information from a standard format. This would allow a user to simply read an article rather then getting the entire video experience.

    I could see the animation as being very annoying if I am simply trying to read an article or re-read one. Reminds me of a super long intro sequence to a DVD like Carlo mentioned. Perhaps there will be simple ways to jump over animation. These are beautiful but I would hate to have to sit through some low budget intros.

    Remember the 90's when everyone had Flash splash pages?
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  • Justin Charles 1 year ago
    This is awful. These people missed the point entirely.
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  • simon dennett 1 year ago
    I agree with Justin Charles, this completely misses the point. If you want to animate the feature make it an animation, or even better video.

    If you want people to read stuff, make it readable.

    This approach can't decide whether it is arthur or martha. Smashing two separate approaches is not very innovative or compelling. Reminds me of initial approaches to dvd extra textual content or full flash websites.

    The graphic elements are not making it any easier to get at the textual content, and the animations come across as gratuitous.

    Dont get me wrong though the thing is as sexy as hell, very slick and high production values and execution. It is the treatment of the textual content and UX that is off.
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  • Matthew Wilcox 1 year ago
    Eww.

    When will publishers learn - people want CONTENT fast. This is just another hugely irritating DVD menu. Literally, that's all it is.

    "Read this (seemingly banal) article, but only after a 5 second unskippable pointless animation!"

    If this is the future of magazines, then the industry is screwed. Wrong rabbit hole to go down guys. People don't want to see this, they want fast access to your content. And good content. I'll leave that critique well alone.
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  • Chris Armstrong 1 year ago
    It's a really beautiful animation, and a nice idea, but at the same time I think it would just be frustrating in practice. I behave differently when I'm watching something as to when I'm Reading something... If I'm watching something, I sit back and let the magical moving pictures do the work. If I'm reading, I have to concentrate more to understand what's being communicated.

    I think the problem here is that it requires me to keep jumping from Reading mode to Watching mode and back again... Ultimately BREAKING the flow of the article, rather than helping it. If you go to these lengths to animate the content of the article, it might as well all be an animation. And it would be beautiful I'm sure
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  • Josh Nichols 1 year ago
    This looks like a DVD menu and I hates DVD menus.
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  • Yll Zymberi 1 year ago
    fuckin'awsome
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  • framel73 1 year ago
    Fantastic~
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  • Jeff Lively 1 year ago
    While I think this is an interesting discussion, I really feel all the negs are missing the point. Saying you don't like these kinds of intros for digital content because they're too long, slick or expensive is like watching the opening title sequence to Touch of Evil and saying, crane shot 'oners' with hundreds of extras are too long & expensive, so therefore I hate all movie title sequences... Alexx has clearly shown how different these treatments can be with the guy running on the beach for Outside magazine article. Go watch it, it's simple clean & brilliant.

    There is no right or wrong here, just personal preference - and, c'mon we know it will all be 'skippable' - subscribers will demand it & the magazines will listen.

    Now as far as the execution of this 'concept' (which I think is what discussions on this particular site should be about) I think he totally NAILED IT! Just as he did for the Outside magazine cover - tailored to audience. So Matthew's lament about about 'hating the intro to the seemingly banal article' totally exposes him as NOT PART OF THE DEMO THAT THIS MAGAZINE IS TRYING TO ATTRACT! So just move on, this article is obviously not for you. But to say this type of sophisticated imagery is not going to happen, is to stick YOUR head down a rabbit (or rather, ostrich) hole and pretend print isn't evolving - it is - and frankly, these types of intros and moving covers will be part of what will SAVE the magazine & newspaper as a format. Not to mention the freakin' forests it will save!

    As a content creator, I only see the positives here - yes, Alex is setting the bar very high - but just walk past a magazine & newspaper stand and look at all the different layouts, photography, paper stock, typography - there's a world of opportunity here from a design POV, whether you have a big budget or just a brilliant idea & a $300 GoPro camera, the possibilities of this new canvas are very exciting to anyone in the moving pictures industry.
  • Peter Franz 1 year ago
    Excellent comment. VIV magazine is in the ultra-competitive Women's Service category, and needs to deliver "above the bar" content that engages to survive. The superb "mash up" shown here does just that.
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  • Ben Smithett 1 year ago
    It looks fantastic, kudos on the animation.

    That said, I agree with everyone else - this sort of user experience just pisses most people off. If this sort of thing impressed people, they'd be sitting in their loungerooms spending hours exploring DVD menus rather than just watching the movie, and hideous Flash micro-sites created for multinationals by big agencies would be bigger than Facebook.
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  • Jeremy Erickson plus 1 year ago
    wow, that is amazing. I can't wait to consume that type of content on my iPad!
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  • Cameron Hunt 1 year ago
    "Interactive." I do not think it means what you think it means.
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  • Rokkas plus 1 year ago
    like the transitions between the scenes
    well done!
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  • neleash 1 year ago
    jaw dropping . . .
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  • tschikay 1 year ago
    great, great, great...beautiful shots and camera movement, cc & font integration.
    In my opinion, devices like the ipad will change the media industry.
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  • I'm not concerned about "industry", "DVD menus", etc. Just about this work — excellent!
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  • tsubasuke 1 year ago
    pretty cool!!
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  • Craig Shields 1 year ago
    Wow! Mostly everybody missed it. You really did. This guy is showing you the possibilities yet you can't see it. Reminds me of Art school in the late 80's when a classmate said she would not use a computer because it took away creativity and killed the tradition. She was right, but she was also left... behind.
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  • leahzero 1 year ago
    This is just motion graphics used to present text content. There is no interactivity besides scrolling the text or moving forward to the next page. There is no utilization of the unique features of a touch tablet interface. You could do this with a desktop browser and a mouse.

    This method of displaying content is already being done on web sites with Flash, AJAX, etc. We've had this capability for most of the past decade, and it never took off as the dominant method of displaying primarily textual content, because it's not practical either from a user interface or a budgetary standpoint.

    It's slick mograph work, but it totally fails to understand the purpose of tablets or harness their best features.
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  • mpared plus 1 year ago
    amazing posted at the curious brain
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  • Emmanuel Blessed pro 1 year ago
    Great stuff!!!
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  • Enrique Arce 1 year ago
    Oh wow, a Flash site with Buttons and 3d graphics, never seen those before.

    oh but its interactive right?
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  • amazing! I wanna do it! I make motion design and i wanna to do this kind of job!
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  • truncated 1 year ago
    Well it's very pretty, but I'm sure it eats battery like nobody's business and costs ridiculous amounts to produce. You'd probably only be able to put out one issue every 3 months or more - and I'd imagine that I'd be a very expensive magazine for the reader to buy. It's a fantastic concept and very slick, but until I see these being bought and sold, and turning a profit, I'll remain a skeptic.
  • Você perde tempo pra postar isso mané! Acorda, o futuro está ai! Revistas ganham muito dinheiro. Fácil se tprnar usual. Mesmo porque a produção pode ser dimensionada para o tamanho do orçamento. Fora que esse é o job do cara, de antes de lançarem o ipad. Imagine quando já estiver no mercado a um tempo. E se tua ainda não sabe, entra no site da apple e leia sobre, pois a bateria do ipad dura 10 horas carinha! Desculpa, é que teu pessimismo absurdo me incomodou muito. Deveria passar um tempo no Brasil sem as regalias que tem ai no 1º mundo, ai tu iria aprender a valorizar o que tem! Mané!
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  • shan moreshan 1 year ago
    Really very informative and interesting site.because this site has good information all of user.

    blog.itechtalk.com/2010/joliese-tan-review/
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  • Artur Kiraga 1 year ago
    i like the visual side, but i agree that there's too much focus on visuals than actual content
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  • Really Cool effects!
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  • alexander zels plus 1 year ago
    really cool!
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  • Martin Craig 1 year ago
    This is great public health work and wonderful design. If the iPad can present info in this way the next crop of young folk might stand a chance!
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  • Genki Ito plus 1 year ago
    cooooool
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  • Remco Douma 1 year ago
    Awesome.
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  • Maren Christensen 1 year ago
    VIVmag is giving away a dozen iPads to celebrate its availability on iPad. Check it out here:

    idek.net/1Cir
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  • dod mcknight 1 year ago
    This is the future of publications, but I guess they are very costly to produce.
  • Michael Ricker 1 year ago
    Printing/shipping magazines all over the country is cheap?
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  • mungkey 1 year ago
    inspiring. amazing.
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  • david Kiang 1 year ago
    Awesome stuff! The post treatment is top notch. It was definitely entertaining to watch. Just caught this from the Media Bistro newsletters. The platform lives up to the abilities .. otherwise companies won't be investing this sort of time and budget to produce. Will there be enough budget in the future to do this once a month? And only a hand full of studios able to produce such material?
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  • Say Hello to the Future!
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  • mataikan pro 1 year ago
    did you use flash?
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  • Mark Rutherford plus 1 year ago
    Facinating discussion.
    Unquestionably innovative and beautiful work.

    I think the key issue is developing user enticing/meaningful interactivity. It's got to be more than just pretty pictures moving- I want the imagery to lead me into something and enhance my experience, not distract me from it.

    UX + eye candy= value added content.
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  • Andrew Tomayko 1 year ago
    I dont like it... just kidding! So amazing, I feel lucky that I was involved
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  • Whitman Kwok 1 year ago
    I was on the edge of my seat as if it was a movie
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  • Nikon Cameras 1 year ago
    Awesome video I will post a link on my blog
    cameta.com/nikon-d90-digital-slr-camera-body-36657.cfm
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  • Die Werberocker 1 year ago
    Posted your link on our Facebook Fanpage. facebook.com/DieWerberocker
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  • Tobias Heitmann plus 1 year ago
    amazing. This is truly one more reason to buy an iPad!
  • tingjust 1 year ago
    Yes, iPad video is special. You can convert video to iPad from the site videoipadconverter.com
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  • Very impressive! I will share it on my Facebook Page.
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  • Pavel Badzhakov 1 year ago
    Speechless !
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  • robertanderson plus 1 year ago
    No, this is not the way to do it
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  • Joe Moya plus 1 year ago
    Impressive style... and mix of compositing, animation and video work.

    But, in practical use for a magazine intro or indexing of information... hmmm.... not sure it hits the spot. Some will find this annoying... others will find it a work of art unto itself... don't know if those two impressions can mix effectively as an introduction or as a referencing or indexing format called a digital magazine.

    Only time (and money) will tell if this has practical value or simply gimicky marketing. Will be interesting to see...
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  • Jess 1 year ago
    Wow!!!
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  • Huy 4 months ago
    Inspirational & creative! Dang.
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