Pacha TV 3D treatment

Global Warming

Pitch for a documentary on Global Warming. Blender 3D experiments.

Alchemist Cookbook

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The "Alchemist Cookbook" is a game created at the Blender for Game Artists workshop part of the TOSMI - Trainings in Open Source Multimedia Instruments

Creators:
Biser Georgiev ................................. Peter Applerock
Goce Mitevski.................................. Stoyan Bozhkilov
Iana Krachunova............................. Victoria Gospodinova
Martin Ruskov................................. & me Denni

Archifashion

Archifashion from Denni Bakardji on Vimeo.

People and architecture create the identity of cities. The city is a device. The city is a social machine. The city is a medium. New living conditions serve as a background where new society is constructed and new identity of people is revealed.

Clothes and accessories are device too used to present, to protect, or to hide oneself. It is a semiotic medium showing power, social status, background, racial or group belonging, religious affiliation, and so forth. Clothing is also a manipulation tool; why not a safety tool as well?

The city is a place where people meet and exchange ideas and feelings, where everyday life is also a struggle for survival.. Are we satisfied with the atmosphere of the contemporary cities? Do the pace and the life-style in the today’s industrial cities suggest our connection with nature and keep us intact and safe? Events are milestones in this scenario revealing the motivation of the characters to break with the routine and to develop a new reality. A new fictional urban landscape is created according to the social demand.

This animated story is about a community that resembles Eastern Europe in the last two decades during the period of transition from socialism to the market economy. People have to be inventive and resourceful in their attempt to raise children, to work, to love, to create and to maintain faith, sanity and humour in an almost unbearable environment. The members of this community have experienced an endless chain of absurd events such as: an electricity regimen, a water regimen, a coupon system, a massive inflation, currency denominations, a currency board, a grain crisis, a milk crisis, a toilet paper crisis, a gas crisis, ethnic cleansing, friendly fire, random bomb droppings, political scandals, etc. This society is not governed or organized and there is an intentional lack of desire to fight crime, corruption, mafia, emigration of young people, and the destruction of people’s homes and destinies. As Bill Bryson writes in his book “Neither Here Nor There” some parts of Eastern Europe are not countries; they are experience close to death.

Inspired by Hussein Chalayan’s ‘After Words’ collection, I have depicted some of these events through which my characters use transformable clothing capable to turn into tents in an amusing way for facing difficult situations.

People of my animation have become equipped to live in any place and in any time they wish to. This has been influenced by the British group of artists, Archigram’s ‘Walking City’ and ‘Suitsaloon.’ My aim has been to make them utterly free, mobile and independent of home and attachment. My characters are able to migrate thanks to the comfort of their clothing that is gradually transformed into shelters and dwellings. This interactive couture is a crossing point of the two fields – fashion and architecture which provides a new expression of the packaging of the body and of the appearance of the home. Human beings are provided with a new sense of warmth, protection, with a new urban identity and above all with a new attitude towards themselves. Dressed in portable homes that are their transformable clothing and wearing accessories that are their personal belongings, people experience change of relationships between them, due to newly gained sense of freedom. They are politically and economically out of reach.

It seems that the destiny of the mobile person of the 21 century is already predicted in someway. People are constantly on the move and take with them what they need creating alternative settlements thus escaping manipulation. People need positive alternatives.

I have chosen to use 3D as the basic language of my project. I have added the additional technique of line drawing to my animation in order to give the characters a more personal feeling.

Archifashion 3D environment - Blender 3D

Images ArchifashionBuild with the physics engine BLENDER 3D




Created with Adobe Illustrator; Photoshop & Blender 3D

Logos

Work in progress for Demos sting

Risky Business

I've lost my strings

I've lost my strings from Denni Bakardji on Vimeo.

Bonds sprout from bonds. Affection sprouts from affection. Creativity sprouts from creativity. I have grown up in a house where four generations of women lived together with the only man soul � the much spoiled and loved tomcat. Even now the bonds are tremendous, nursing me like roots sucking juices from the soil in times of troubles, restricting me like golden chains, stirring up my forgetful desire for freedom.

I’ve lost my strings is a short animation I have always wanted to make. It is a personal story of a family of three women at different stages of their lifes. It is a metaphor of the contradictions that arouse between them in their everyday life. It’s starting point is inspired by the play “Three tall women” by Edward Albee. I’ve lost my strings is also about a madness caused by change and an escape from a previous life with all attachments and sentiments one used to cherish.

In an attempt to liberate myself I have developed a concept which is close to my previous studies in textiles and fashion design, but I have been looking at it in a new perspective using different media. I have modified my themes according to my changed understandings of life and creativity after my arrival to the Western Europe using new media and technologies. Instead of using a needle and a thread I have presented my work with illustrations, video, flash and 3D, exploring my dreams and virtual travel across time and space.

I started to experiment with this animation trying to present a dream of a girl who wants to break the chains of limitations and to unshackle the irritations in her life. I am trying to present it as a struggle and growth, sometimes taking shape of a surrealistic dream. I have played and experimented with the different dimensions with the help of a 3D program. I have imported and exported multiple times my scenario in the 3D space and putting it back again in the two dimensional environment.

I have changed the scissors of my grand-mother into a montage with the help of digital programs and eventually cut the old that holds me back, giving a new shape to the fabric of my life. I have transformed the needle of creativity into a visual collage of animated flash images, a new design transformed the traditional hand-woven and dear to me fabrics inspired of my grand-grand-mother into a magic flying animated video carpet. These metaphors are very much inspired by admired to me artist from Eastern Europe like Jan Svankmajer and Qauy Brothers. I am very interested in the way they present narrative trough objects.

I have also tried to work in the achromatic colours, inspired by children’s illustrations and by old movies that give a special perception of time. My intention was to maintain the personal touch and feeling of a designed motion graphic piece that describes an exiting journey forth and back through time and space.

This travel across the time and space suggests a method of incorporation of a sound map. I have used the music of Gershwin. His music based on a characteristic American blues and jazz creatively mixes its elements with the heritage of European classical music. I believe that his experience of an American in Paris is pretty much similar to the experience of the nowadays foreigner in London.

3D "I've lost my strings"

Build with Blender 3D