Bryan Berger, using PixelColorist, Swarm and Microphone

Bryan Berger / http://bryanberger.com

Joshua Davis Studios was hired to create the “visual identity” or “Avatar” for IBM’s Watson, which will air on February 14th, 15th, and 16th 2011, when it plays Jeopardy against two former Grand Champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.

Our studio then hired Branden Hall of Automata Studios to help in creation of the avatar which viewers will see on television. So Joshua’s and Branden’s “Grand Challenge” was could we develop this flawlessly using Adobe’s Flash technology and the HYPE Framework…

The answer Alex is… “what is YES ?!”

Here are some great news links, with photos and videos that show off all of our hard work on this epic project !

Engadget :

ibms-watson-supercomputer-destroys-all-humans-in-jeopardy

Wired :

ibm-watson-jeopardy

Watson Official :

http://www.ibmwatson.com/
IBM Watson / Flickr
IBM Watson / Twitter

Created by :

Joshua Davis Studios and Automata Studios using Adobe Flash CS5 and the HYPE Framework

Some additional Images, showcasing various states :

Lex Jagneaux new HYPE generative prints… “Tomorrow I’m showing a some new pieces at a gallery here in Lafayette, LA for the second Saturday’s Art Walk. The prints came out awesome; razor sharp 300dpi, 11″ x 17″ on satin photo paper; printed on an HP DesignJet at a print shop nearby.”

Be sure to check out a new project by Bernat Fortet, from Barcelona using the hype framework.

http://nodalgenesis.com/

(A brief history of) The Origin of A.E.L.I.T.A. by Krista Hoefle

Aelita intercepts and follows a transmission from space, only to undergo the most memorable…the most startling…experience of her life!

Some animated sequences created using HYPE framework by Joshua Davis + Branden Hall (www.hypeframework.org).
Other sequences are rotoscoped in addition to other digital animation techniques.

Translation and Narration by Jennifer Zachman.

Are you playing with HYPE? Interested in learning more about it? What to ask questions, learn tips and tricks and generally become a HYPE master?

Great! Join the HYPE Framework Google Group – it’s a web and email based group that’s all HYPE all the time. Both Josh and I plan on being very active, so please, come join us.

One of my Graduate students at SVA, a_typ by Hwayong Jung http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarstone79/ using HYPE for our class dynamic print project.

yes HYPE finally gets a new happy home – hypeframework.org

When I constantly pestered Branden Hall to help me with this idea I had… I had an assumption of what I thought HYPE would be… simply a place for Joshua Davis to port 11 years of ideas into. I saw the relationship as Mr. Hall infesting my brain with a structure that I’d start with… Branden goes away, and does what he does, and I’d be 100% invested with taking this seed knowledge planted by Branden and discovering what happens next. Which is why the project was parked at http://hype.joshuadavis.com

Well that’s not what happened.

HYPE became something bigger than just 1 person. HYPE is a partnership between Branden Hall and myself. If the both of us we’re going to be 100% committed to the future and maintenance of HYPE, then HYPE needed to be parked on its own domain so that people understand that this project is co-founded and co-maintained by the both of us.

To add to HYPE’s expansion we have a great community of people working on HYPE as well… to name a few, Dr. Woohoo, Andy McDonald, Si Robertson, Jesse Freeman, and many others.

So welcome to HYPE’s new happy home… we hope you enjoy the URL change… please update your bookmarks.

Joshua Davis

This evening Josh and I got pinged on twitter by @cassiemc to tell us about her submission for Women at FITC. Yep, she built using HYPE – great work Cassie, keep it coming!

HYPE + Away3DLite, 900 cubes using the grid layout 2 bitmap canvas and sound processing: http://www.wemakedotcoms.com/_exp/hype/900Cubes/main.html

audio : “Magenta” by Arno Cost & Arias

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