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We're quite pleased our panel discussion, Night of Luxurious Thinkers, had a great turnout. Panelists Ryan Jacoby, Mesh Flinders, Nihal Mehta and moderator, Torsten Gross (our Chief Strategy Officer) raised many questions regarding the gap between "offline and online," while throwing out there interesting ideas to ponder. If you need a recap, check… Read More

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Behind The Scenes

Cramer-Krasselt selected Luxurious Animals as their digital partner to introduce the new 2011 Porsche Cayenne on www.cayenne.com.

The site includes beautiful 3D renders, an interactive floating wall of snapshots, user-generated "The New Utility" book, and seven original videos. Also be sure to head over to the Porsche Family Tree and share stories with other Porsche fans.

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AS3 / Design / Development

Two years have flown by! This month marks the second year anniversary of Luxurious Animals and we are thrilled to have come so far. Along with the many proud projects we've crafted since our humble beginnings--not to mention our recent Cannes awards--we're excited to be soon featured on DIY Network. DIY, which were blown away by our technology, filmed at our studio this week as they've been following us for a TV special! So we celebrated all these good happenings and being age two to a fine feast and champagne.

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Behind The Scenes

Recently, we had to work with several interlaced broadcast quality commercials, so we looked to one of Andrew Kramer's classic tutorials on how to deinterlace videos. The technique requires you to use an image of black and white lines as an Luma matte in After Effects to remove every other line in the picture, then use Directional blur to fill in the empty lines. It's the best method we've seen so far on… Read More

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Tutorials / Video

Axe Virtual Hair Action wins two Cyber Lion Awards at the 2010 Cannes Lion Advertising Festival, one for Best Music/Sound Design and another for Banners and Other Rich Media. Congratulations to the team of Animals who worked on VHA, our agency partner, BBH, and our sound designer, Antfood. We're honored to win these Cyber Lions, especially awards named after a luxurious animal.

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Awards / Design / Sound