Web Developer Blog

The video below shows a conversation between a graphic designer and a client, if you are a web designer or developer you may find this type of conversation strangely familiar, very funny and often true. The video does contain strong language.

The video is an advertisement for a company named Xtranormal and shows-off their text-to-movie making process. Xtranormal’s philosophy is “If you can type, you can make movies”. The idea being that anyone can type in something (such as a short script) and Xtranormal will make your text into a movie, simple (well actually quite clever).

You can find out more about Xtranormal and their text-to-movies at:

http://www.xtranormal.com/

HautStyle is a blog created by a very talented graphic and web designer friend of mine Christophe Duhaut. HautStyle is a journal showcasing artistic creations from all over the world purely for your inspiration.

A very wide range of artistic design topics are included such as digital art, hand drawings, paintings, street art, multimedia and anything artistic from upcoming and well-established names in the design world. If you get your work showcased on this blog, you have done very well for yourself.

The site itself is well designed (I especially like the repeated background using the HautStyle logo) and optimised for search engines, posts are added almost daily with 4-6 new and original posts per week as well as the author offering up their own graphic wallpaper designs for free download every month.

HautStyle has quickly built up a very large base of followers in the design community (I’ve seen the number of subscribers) and has a large catalogue of posts and content for you to browse through. If you are looking for quality and truly unique design inspiration that is not repeated over and over on other design blogs, have a look at HautStyle.

You can view HautStyle at:

http://www.hautstyle.co.uk/

This is a video I had heard a lot about from my friends, it is the cinematic trailer for the game ‘The Beatles Rockband’.

The style has a distinct anime feel to it and flows well into CGI and a grand finale. I like the way the feel of the trailor evolves in parallel to the band’s career and the music their musical direction. The the whole thing looks great and if you get 5 minutes free its worth checking it out.

You can view the trailer at:

http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/cinematic.php

The trailer was produced by Harmonix and Passion Pictures. Passion Pictures have a very impressive portfolio having created innovative advertisements for some of the giants in the business world such as Sony and Audi as well as creating music videos for The Gorillaz.