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[samrolfes]

✨‼coming out of inactivity to share a new video w @ghostly and @matthewdear his one has been really important to me — both in learning how to puppet nonhuman characters in VR but also in moving toward a more harmonious visual palette ‬‪would mean the world to me if you watched 🖤‬

[samrolfes]

hi, this account’s inactive now -- go here

[prostheticknowledge]

Render Bender: Let’s Play Stream Showdown

Last episode of Digital Art compilation from Super Deluxe features various artists with work on spaces, including an appearance of Brainfeeder label producer Iglooghost:

A notorious gamer troll hijacks a Let’s Play stream – resulting in some of the hottest 3D art of all time. 

More Here

[samrolfes]

IT’S HERE!!! Our (for now) final episode of Render Bender for @superdeluxe starring @iglooghost and a slew of pattern-based experimentations from @adamferriss @danmountford Dreamrec, @parispsalter, @zeitguised & Jamie Rapp

[prostheticknowledge]

Render Bender | YouTube Dance Feud

Second episode from Super Deluxe of their frantic 3D art compilation show features examples employing motion captured human motion (with a side portion of YouTube drama):

This week on Render Bender: A celebrity YouTuber goes down in flames.

Animated by Sam Rolfes & Andy Rolfes Co-Directed by Tim Saccenti Edited by Matt Posey Starring Jessica Timlin Music by: Feral: https://soundcloud.com/thisisferal Vyle: https://soundcloud.com/vyle Shit Robot: https://soundcloud.com/shit-robot Featured artists: Andrew Benson Kevin RamserAndrew Thomas Huang Esteban DiáconoAntoni TudiscoHelmut Breineder Oliver Latta

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[samrolfes]

✨AHHHHH EPISODE 2 is out!!✨ featuring @tsaccenti <3 

watch and shit talk us in the comments and/or suggest future artists so we can make more lol

[prostheticknowledge]

Render Bender

Surreal web show from Super Deluxe featuring artist works on particular themes. The first episode is about the body, featuring elastic contortions, jelly dynamics and digital puppetry:

Strap in and take a journey into the most top-shelf 3D art on the internet. 

Directed and hosted by Sam Rolfes https://www.instagram.com/sam.rolfes/

Featuring:

Erik Ferguson: instagram.com/fergemanden Sam Lyon/Jellygummies; instagram.com/jellygummies Simon Christoph Krenn: https://vimeo.com/simonchristophkrenn Paris Psalter: instagram.com/parispsalter Zachary Darren Corzine: instagram.com/zachdarren Martin Olsson: instagram.com/gokm Wesley Kimler: instagram.com/wesleykimler

Music by Kai Whiston: https://soundcloud.com/kaiwhiston

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[samrolfes]

IT’S FINALLY OUT, TWO MORE EPISODES ON THE WAY YALL -- LIKE AND WATCH N COMMENT SO WE CAN GET MORE EPISODES & FEATURE MORE ART 

[samrolfes]

animation of @tsaccenti‘s @gucci cover of sophia the robot for King Kong magazine I did w @andyrolfes

[prostheticknowledge]

Sam Rolfes - Absurd Arms

Artist talk from @samrolfes presented at the Sonic Acts festival where he discusses his experimental practice using new technology (he is even wearing a MOCAP suit to present his work put together in a realtime Unreal Engine environment):

Somewhere between presentation and performance, Rolfes, wearing a motion-capture suit, sketches the outlines and contorted intersections of VR directorial story-play and combines them with expressionist 3D puppetry. In the process, he attempts to dodge the pitfalls, perils, and obstacles of eye-candy esotericism for modern experimentalists. A 3D stage fight against the increasingly rapid iteration of the technology that prevents us from fully comprehending the context or utility of our tools, this presentation is both a report on Rolfes’ semi-improvisational use of deformed absurdity across media as an aesthetic stun device and an audit the formalism fetish of new media. Blockchain technology may or may not be mentioned for additional academic clout.

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[samrolfes]

^___^

[samrolfes]

btw my mocapp'd live 3D talk at Amsterdam's Sonic Acts fest is up, where I walk through the set of Progress Bar episode 04 and unpack 3d improv, the potential for surrealism or whatever to be a subversive dissemination tool, and shit talk the novel tech tool fetish of the digital art world :P

[samrolfes]

very vErY excited for @chalayanstudio story w @dayfornightlab for #fatmagazine coming out soon; buildings/monoliths/sets constructed from 3D scans of @chalayanstudio in London.

[samrolfes]

stripped version of mad Houston show on the 26th ft Rabit and subversive fashion stars @matieresfecales

[samrolfes]

ESCAPE FROM REGRESS BAR - Progress Bar episode 4 for Sonic Acts Fest

[samrolfes]

the levels of client tech knowledge:

 low: "idk u make magic, ill either pay you 0 or $$$$ to attempt something nonsensical" 

 mid (worst): "I read about ____, can we do that but in a completely impossible way? I will fight you on every step" 

 high (never happens): "heres the gig, dont fuck up"

[jamesusilljournal]

Sam Rolfes

[samrolfes]

<3

[samrolfes]

[samrolfes]

a series of Kenzo garment armatures, deconstructed for @novembremagazine issue 12, out now

[samrolfes]

working on my avi

[samrolfes]

OMG U IN THE CLUB N UR CUPSONA IS WITH CHILD TICKLING WHAT DO U DO?? 😫😓😫😓