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\nSome old-fashioned augments \u2014 I think that’s some Mario and an old-fashioned, chemo-tech *wheat paste* post-up \u2014 found in Paris, France over the Thanksgiving holiday \u2014 which means nothing there in France.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Last week was maintenance and tidying-up. Like returning from a long trip and sorting through all the stuff, experiences, dirty laundry and receipts. There was mostly a bit of cataloging and filing of material related to Project Trust (aka *Project Foghorn*, a.k.a. *Project Firefoot*), which has tipped into a nice swirl of spin-off explorations mostly related to the power of sight\/speech and signaling. Very exciting futures yet to be had.<\/p>\n

Over the last few weeks we sluiced quickly and excitedly into the world of *match moving* production for the purposes of exploring some of the background challenges of designing and communicating design concepts in a way that avoids the dreaded *PowerPoint* ((cue blood-curdling scream)) \u2014 there will be more to say to this point when we can cue up some examples of why and what-for this approach to designing and communicating the designing (in-process, in-final form, &c.) All 12 people who read this blog will know why this is important and, indeed \u2014\u00a0significant to doing what we do. In the meantime, take it on faith that this will be a cornerstone of the design fiction idiom. Visual communication + story.<\/p>\n

To this point, we have been adding to the design quiver \u2014 Mocha<\/a>, Syntheyes<\/a> and a rough competency with AfterEffects<\/a>, Maya<\/a> and an ongoing leveling-up of Catia<\/a> and Bunkspeed’s Hypershot<\/a>. (Sadly, the new Bunkspeed Hypermove animation package \u2014\u00a0while perceivably as easy to use as Hypershot with the addition of *time* has no integration with fbx animation throughputs so the tool basically sits on its own in a big world of scripted or programmatic animation. We’ll keep an eye on it for future editions that would allow camera moves to be integrated properly.)<\/p>\n

It was pre-holiday time in the Nokia studio with lots of people drifting off for their vacations, which the laboratory will do *as well* starting presently. Vacations are vague in the Laboratory. I expect to see lots of ongoing dips and dives in and out of what we do.
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