Hasta La Motion!

Sculpture for HAIM‘S My Song 5 ||||| Symbiosis for The Dismemberment Plan‘s Daddy Was a Real Good Dancer

From Blacklist‘s directing collective Dvein: Two entries into the New Music Weekly compaign on Rdio, the three-year-old challenger brand that has been outpacing longstanding leaders in the category such as Spotify, Pandora, MOG and Grooveshark. The innovative New Music Weekly campaign, launched last July, brings together the best in independent art and music with a series of original video pieces from visual artists around the world inspired by new music.

“We don’t see these as music videos but instead something more personal for our visual artists, creating art inspired by music, rather than literal interpretations,” said Nada Antoun, Global PR Director of Rdio, which is owned by Skype. “This campaign has shown that new art inspired by new music promotes discovery.”

“Music has a lot to do with an emotional connection with your past and future,” said collective Dvein. “We wanted to create experiences that express that in some way, the nostalgia of what you’ve heard and the excitement for new music, and Rdio gives us both.”

Sebastian Strasser from Radical Media has directed this great advertising for Vodafone, entitled “Add Power to your life”.

The project was shot over 8 days in Iceland, Denmark, Germany, the Czech Republic and Romania. During the shoot the team had to navigating some of Europe’s worst flooding in decades, making some of the locations highly treacherous, including the diner, which was left half submerged after a flood had hit the area. The film was shot almost completely using hand held cameras, enabling the team to capture more fluid, natural movements, which were then composited together by Time Based Arts, who did an exceptional job blending the 3D, CGI and live action.

Song by Woodkid – Run Boy Run.

Credits:
Director: Sebastian Strasser
VFX: Time Based Arts
Agency: Jung Von Matt
Producer: Christoph Petzenhauser
Editor: Paul Hardcastle

Recently jumped back into the freelance game so I launched a redesigned website and updated show-reel at digitalblackbook.com. Take a look around and let me know what you think – @amador_v

New CG trailer for Microsoft/343 Industries’ Halo Xbox One. Directed by John Allardice with all CG animation production by Axis Animation. Absolutely stellar work as per usual from Axis.

Anthony Scott Burns has released two stark, tense teasers in crisp black and white in anticipation of his inaugural short film entitled Manifold…The film will be released at FantasticFest later this month.

Teaser 1

Teaser 2