Amsterdam based creative production studio PlusOne was asked to create a heritage film for Gillette Mach3 in which the past, present and future of this premium razor is visualized. Great motion design work and considering it is an almost 3 minute piece completed start-to-finish in two weeks, makes it even more impressive.
Love the latest spot from Buenos Aires Animation & Design Studio Soup: show package for TyC Sports showcasing the lifestyle, trips, interviews and training stories of Argentinean Soccer Team “De Selección”.
Great animation/illustration and sound design from another Buck — CypherAudio collaboration. Pretty damn cool use of Instagram data too: “For this year’s US Open Tennis tournament, IBM and Ogilvy & Mather invited Buck out to Arthur Ashe Stadium to create live video animations using data from the tournament, delivered via Instagram. Using live data meant designing and deploying a custom toolkit and workflow that could shift with the on-court action, delivering responsive data-based animations, rendered and uploaded in minutes.”
L.A based LAUNDRY!, home of PJ Richardson, has updated with a new website, reel and tons of new work. LAUNDRY! specializes primarily in motion/animation work but have also created an interesting side category called the hamper showing a lot of out pitches, print, experimental and general design nic nacs which are a fun, unique and honest approach to their process as creatives.
New York-based Blind Pig, sister company to Absolute Post, collaborated with creative agency Hugo & Marie creating Coldplay’s latest music video Atlas, part of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack. The video received close to another million views over the weekend, bringing it up to 4.6 million as of today. The amazing, fantastical illustrations, largely based around the celestial sky map and myth by Micah Lidberg, were brought to life by the Blind Pig team over the course of a couple of weeks. Working very closely with director Mario Hugo and Hugo & Marie’s creative team, the Blind Pig crew created a seamless and inspiring animation sequence that held true to the original, artful illustrations.
Award-winning design and digital production company Thornberg & Forester (T&F) has created a brilliant opening title sequence entitled “FRANCO” for The Comedy Central Roast of James Franco. The Roast had its broadcast premiere on Labor Day and it will be rebroadcast many times on the network. Working directly with Comedy Central VP of design Chris Scarlata and Tenth Planet producer, Rick Austin, T&F principals Scott Matz and Justin Meredith were both heavily involved in the project, along with senior art director and designer Kyle Miller and lead animator Ken Krueger.
“One of the best aspects of this project from beginning to end was the freedom to ‘find’ the story as we built out our storyboards,” said Miller. “Our style frames left a lot of open spaces which had to be filled, so we wrote out a script expanding our original kernel of Franco’s multi-level involvement in the making of this film.” … said Matz, “each scene was animated as a united RGB pass that was run through a master After Effects stack to automatically generate the appropriate colors from our chosen palette. Filmic textures and an animated ‘defocus’ treatment was applied the same way. Our ultimate goal was to mindfully and humorously celebrate the many facets of James Franco by showing them through an artfully classic and elegant lens.”
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
Pardon the interruption — I’ve recently jumped back into the world of freelance, launching a new reel and site with new and old client and personal work. Please have a look and if you like, help a bruther out ::: share/like/comment/say hello ; )
Impressive animation and illustration from London based motion designer Cesar Pelizer.
It’s not too often that you come across a designer who has such a meticulous eye for the details.
The incredibly talented Jake Sargeant demonstrates just that and more with his updated online presence.
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