Pixelstick meets SpiroJib
We’re always interested in the various ways people go about getting the most out of their equipment. Skilled lightpainter, tool-builder, and all-around pleasant guy John Griffin had his eye on...
View ArticleReblog: Colorkey Case Study
(Note: the below was translated from the original German, a blog post from EyeLoveYou, a creative agency in Basel, Switzerland.) The campaign to find the look for the Colourkey Leisure Card began with...
View ArticleNew Image Packs: Fish and Animals
The warmer weather lured us out to shoot a few new image packs in Prospect Park last night. We decided we wanted to shoot some animal life, but thought that rather than go for hyper-realism, it might...
View ArticleUpon further reflection…
There are a few key differences between using pixelstick and trying to mimic the visuals in Photoshop or After Effects, and those differences account for much of the value in choosing to take the...
View ArticleAnimating with Pixelstick #2
In our second animation tutorial we’ll be exploring how to animate a single image moving through a scene by incrementally advancing pixelstick along a pre-determined path and taking a new exposure at...
View ArticleMounts and Mountability
One of the often overlooked features of pixelstick is how well it lends itself to creative mounting. Since our very first prototype we’ve been bolting, clamping, and otherwise attaching pixelstick to...
View ArticleThe Invention of Holopainting
Every once and a while an art project comes along for which the scope and ambition alone are worth the time it takes to execute. Students at the University of Applied Science St. Pölten in Austria...
View ArticleSmartphone Wallpaper!
We were fortunate enough to have a booth at the PhotoPlus Expo at Manhattan last week, which gave us the opportunity to set up an area to show off what pixelstick can do. In between demoing with booth...
View ArticleHalloween by Pixelstick
Happy Halloween everyone! We shot in and around the pixelstick office, which as you can see is already relatively scary looking before we added various unsettling elements with pixelstick. Download the...
View ArticleInside the awesome world of Cosplay Portraits
Every once in a while a lucky google search unveils solid gold, as in the case of this studio in Japan that helps Cosplayers get the look they’re going for with a bit of pixelstick magic. Studio Angle...
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