Coinciding with the launch of Radio Canada’s Spring television season, Vox Populi, the producer of the successful Quebec satirical cartoon Et Dieu Créa…Laflaque, commissioned RabbitHoles Media to produce a 3D motion hologram of the show’s main character, Gérard D. Laflaque. The Rabbitholes® hologram depicts the affable character winking to his audience and giving a thumbs-up to passers-by. It has been permanently installed in the Montreal lobby of the CBC’s Radio Canada head office, where it is used to welcome employees and guests. According to the cartoon’s creator, Serge Chapleau, and the team producing the show, this holographic print is a logical extension of the 3D creative process, providing Vox Populi a new avenue to introduce its characters to the public. More projects to depict additional characters from the hit series are under discussion.

RealD, the world’s leading supplier of 3D projection systems in movie theatres, commissioned RabbitHoles Media to design and craft 3D branding displays for the ShoWest Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas, NV.

The illuminated “jewel cases” feature over-sized replicas of RealD’s signature glasses with RabbitHoles 3D animated holograms acting as their lenses that contain an interactive experience with the techno-dog from RealD’s in-theatre promo trailer.

ShoWest, the world’s largest exhibitor conference, is being held at the Paris & Bally Hotels from March 15 — 18. The RealD 3D displays are lit up in both RealD’s domestic and international sales suites and in ShoWest’s “Hall of Posters”, where upcoming movie attractions are promoted leading into the conference registration and presentation area.

Renowned international advertising, marketing, and public relations agency, Ogilvy & Mather, commissioned five RabbitHoles® 3D Motion Holograms to be the Digital Lab signage in their brand new Headquarters offices in New York, NY.

The 3D animated prints were designed to represent five key offices of the nearly 500 Ogilvy & Mather operates worldwide, featuring Beijing, London, New York, Sao Paulo, and Singapore.

Four of the five holographic prints depict a 3-dimensional Ogilvy Digital Lab logo animating into view, and a 3D city name floating inches off the surface in front of a montage of 2D city images that transition as viewers walk by from either direction. The fifth RabbitHole® is slightly larger and features a larger 3D logo animation occurring simultaneously with a time-lapse sequence of New York City’s Times Square, which highlights the Digital Lab’s Headquarters city.

The RabbitHole 3D Motion Holograms featured a 3D Coraline scene rendered from models of the characters in the acclaimed 3D stop-animation film released in Fall 2008.

See the full 3D of Coraline and The Cat with the Pink Palace in our Entertainment gallery.

An estimated 30,000 computer graphics and interactive technology professionals from six continents are expected to attend SIGGRAPH 2008, the world’s premiere entertainment technology conference. Like SIGGRAPH, high-profile brand-builders, tastemakers, and image-makers are choosing RabbitHoles because they are exponentially more effective than traditional print at awing and entertaining audiences.

“RabbitHoles defy explanation, demand experience, and are quite simply the coolest way to experience 3D art. It’s as if the artist pulls you into his animated, multi-dimensional universe and lets you see the art just the way he intended, with detail, nuance and animation. Couldn’t be cooler.” — Jill Smolin, Entertainment & Computer Animation Festival Director for SIGGRAPH

Meats Meier’s “Animation Mother” will also be available as a RabbitHoles limited edition through Gnomon Gallery, in Hollywood, and is visible on the gallery website at www.gnomongallery.com. Read more about the “RabbitHoles” Grand Opening show for Gnomon Gallery above.

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