kigot.com The ultimate merged thread

[porpous2]

even tho this site isnt done - the after effects are AMAZING... Plus the design rocks too... makes me feel lime in in a star wars movie... :) www.kigot.com (http://www.kigot.com)

[UNFLUX]

I'd like it better if they actually did all the work themselves. It's been said they outsourced a lot of it. For that reason, I have a hard time giving it the respect others may feel it deserves. Besides that, something about it just doesn't quite sit right with me.

//edit: and the link isn't working :smirk:

[porpous2]

I'd like it better if they actually did all the work themselves. It's been said they outsourced a lot of it. For that reason, I have a hard time giving it the respect others may feel it deserves. Besides that, something about it just doesn't quite sit right with me.

//edit: and the link isn't working :smirk:
yeah i have no clue why its not working.... but this is cool sites... no matter if they made it or not its still really cool ;)

[minimalistik]

I'd like it better if they actually did all the work themselves. It's been said they outsourced a lot of it.


I had a feeling of this too. The site is probably down for final touches to it or temporary server technicalities.

[REEF·]

No actually flashlevel.com and his work has the best after effects ;).

Trust me - check out his stuff.

I take that back - www.shilodesign.com has the best ae :).

[DDD]

yeah these kigot guys did next to none of the work themselves. I can understand farming out your weaknesses like I do when I have php gigs. BUt they boast design skills and actually farmed those out. I like the site but cant really respect the company.

[porpous2]

yeah i wouldnt buy from the company... but the site rocks (thats why i put it in "kool" sites...)

[Jeff Wheeler]

link hasn't been working for me the whole time :(

[porpous2]

yeah i dono why... but they must have taken it down or something.

[FlashPlaya]

Take a look at these guys http://mk12.com/ :)

[REEF·]

Eh - It's alright :). Not as good as Shilo though.

[FlashPlaya]

Have you seen there older stuff? There pretty sick!! They made a cdrom about year ago that was crazy:)

[FlashPlaya]

Have you seen http://www.tronicstudio.com/ ? they have some really cool stuff aslo take a look at http://www.nikelab.com/ really cool interface and 3d

[Krilnon]

I'm guessing Nike Lab was made by some outside firm.

[Jeff Wheeler]

I think at one point nike lab was by hilman curtis, but then they did it again or soemthing, or maybe I'm just making this up... I could've sworn that hilman curtis was related to nike lab somehow

[Mik3]

Take a look at these guys http://mk12.com/ :)

Ew, the fonts on that site.

[minimalistik]

If you guys asked me my fav. motion/video group, it would be tronic.

[Kristopher]

i saw kigot a while ago on ultrashock. the site sucked imo for usability. the only cool thing was the fade aways for the menu buttons. thats it though :(.

[minimalistik]

The site hasnt been fully completed yet and then the team takes a rest?

[Jeff Wheeler]

yay, it's back up :P

[McGuffin]

The site hasnt been fully completed yet and then the team takes a rest?

In other words:

The workers we're outsourcing our work to are too busy!

:P

[minimalistik]

The workers we're outsourcing our work to are too busy!


thanks for reminding me :D

A site like this one with really good display of animation should also be aware of spelling and grammar because i saw a bit of that.

[Kristopher]

oh yeah, thats one thing i noticed too. however, they are all russian i believe (correct me if im wrong), which does explain it a little i guess.

[bodyvisual]

seen it. awesome music.

:)

[mlk]

i don't care whether or not they outsourced it. it's an amazing webpage...

[FlashPlaya]

[FlashPlaya]

t3h t3rminator,

Sorry about the design and the fonts!!!:) lol, The fonts are kinda wack....

But who am I to say.. Those guys are tight, don't care what people say ;)

[berkoWitZ]

OMG! I LOVE THE MUSIC! :love: one of the best soundtracks for a site Ive ever heard! :drool:

[kikon]

OMG! I LOVE THE MUSIC! :love: one of the best soundtracks for a site Ive ever heard! :drool:


Ok, so how on earth did they make those animations?


I keep hearing "aftereffects"... Are you saying they used Adobe Aftereffects to create those animations? Man if so, I've gotta get my hands on that program!

[Jeff Wheeler]

yes they do to the best fo my knowledge :P

[Mik3]

t3h t3rminator,

Sorry about the design and the fonts!!!:) lol, The fonts are kinda wack....

But who am I to say.. Those guys are tight, don't care what people say ;)

No, the design is awesome! The fonts are blurry. :trout:

[berkoWitZ]

Ok, so how on earth did they make those animations?


I keep hearing "aftereffects"... Are you saying they used Adobe Aftereffects to create those animations? Man if so, I've gotta get my hands on that program!


AE or combustion, not sure....

[Tuky]

How did www.kigot.com
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get that smoky-looking effect in their logo???

[berkoWitZ]

read my last post :sure:

[Tuky]

hmmm don't know either of those programs, but it's very very cool. You think it can be done in Photoshop?

[simplistik]

:) saw this a long time ago. regaurdless if they did it or not, they have the resources to get w/e they boast they can do, done. which in the end is all that really matters. :lol:

[Xero]

The best After Effect Site I have seen was Conspiracy games made by Fantasy Interface. It is down now but man.. it was amazing... and still is the best site I have seen to date.. BTW made 2 years ago.

[REEF·]

Adobe After Effects with several plugins to create those effects.

That's it.

[Krilnon]

Actually, Conspiracy Games is stilll 'up'.

http://fantasyinterfaces.com/conspiracygames/movie.html

I don't think that site is too amazing. (Keeping date created in mind)

[speed]

wow that site is mad hot

[chriskalani]

I think it is awesome. Feels cool just to be on it.

[paddy.]

http://www.kigot.com/

This iste has some really nice 3D and animations. It's still a WIP but it looks great.

[Exorcist]

WOW...

Post that on Site of the week...
Its a good runner...

Awesome site...

[MTsoul]

http://kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62101 :)

[=VALOR=]

Is that all After Effects mainly?

[Bohner]

I love the sounds :)

[Krilnon]

Posted before...

[simplistik]

WOW...

Post that on Site of the week...
Its a good runner...

Awesome site...

Been there... done that...

And you only post that on SOTW if the owner/designer(s) is posting it. And yes AE, and/or Combustion is used to do it.

[Krilnon]

I just got an email from the owner of Kigot yesterday. Looks like they're not doing very well as a team.


Hi
For some reasons design studio kigot stops the work.
And we have decided to you to offer all site (psd. fla. max. files) + host / domen (5000 visitings and 50 letters per day) If you are interested in purchase contact to us.

[DDD]

I heard this too actually. I think it stems from the fact they actually did little of that work themselves. The actual design studio (who did the work) spoke up because of all the awards they were winning.

[Digitalosophy]

I had a feeling that site was going downhill, esp from what you guys have been saying.

[Yeldarb]

The source files for this site are for sale? What happened?

[prototype]

I really liked the 3D interface. But, man, it weighed in at 2.4 MB! A lot of the body text is a raster render, not raw text. They could have kept the particle effects to one or two, not four. I mean it's a slick design but not well executed to be delivered to the masses.

[jdan]

Being on 11mbit I can't really say anything about the load times...

The look was impressive, until the site layout zoomed in at the end.
They really could have done plenty better on that.. It was just dull.
Also if I turn the sound off in their menu, it turns itself back on after a little bit.
So all in all, the intro was pretty.. the site was garbage. :)

[minimalistik]

Is that all After Effects mainly?


Yes, a major component of it is using AE. Im not that insterested in Kigot until it was outsourced and the source files were for sale apparently.

[Krilnon]

This was all discussed in the original Kigot topic.

[Krilnon]

Bumping this for those that didn't see it. (The REAL Kigot topic...)

[newhopekenny]

The text is too tiny on anything above 1280x1024.

[REEF·]

I've seen better after effects to be honest :sigh:. This site looks like it used just a little bit of the presets on the effect plugins they bought with some tweaking. The spider is cool, but the rest isnt that amazing.

www.shilodesign.com has better.

[melnicomm]

The text is too tiny on anything above 1280x1024.
never before i was looking some thing like this project ...from Urcaine: ok...

but ...i don't like music, i hate 3D -- i hate this spupid spider and all alll all!

this site in general with some files for sale realy crazy! some dudes from Kiev... like maybe all from the East -- with out culture, owh history, minimal respect for typographic, colors, composition....

I know more nice programmers from Ucraine, Russia, it's very strong and cool guys, but DESIGN brrrrrrr! Design is TABU for Ucraine. Sorry, is not "kool site" for me.

[billystar]

i hate that chrome ****, sites like that make me wanna puke! it look like an interface out of a really crap startrek copy

[melnicomm]

http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68933&goto=nextnewest

[T-O]

I really like the sound track reminds me of starwars :P

[tonygarcia]

nice... the animation is cool

[SlowRoasted]

I want to learn AE to do stuff like that, im jealous:)

[Krilnon]

http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68933&goto=nextnewest
Actually, this thread was posted first.

[RabBell]

why are people b***hing about this having been posted before?

If you've seen the site and knew there was a previous thread then good for you, obviously others didn't. I'm just suprised how snotty some people have been about "This is old news" kinda attitude. This is what some people were saying would happen with this Cool Sites thread and I thought "Nah, this is a friendly site people wouldn't be like that here" sorry to say they were right

How MTSoul did it is the way to do it, the rest isn't...made me kinda sad to see this :(