Changethethought

From the album Dear… itunes.apple.com/gb/preorder/dear/id501705635

Director: Joseph Mann
Executive Producer: Bart Yates
Produced by: Joseph Mann, Tamsin Glasson, James Bretton
Written by: Joseph Mann
Director of Photography: Matthew Day

Puppets by: Jonny Sabbagh
Character Design: Jonny Sabbagh & Keaton Henson
Puppeteers: Jonny Sabbagh & Will Harper

Camera Assistant: Toby Goodyear & Max Halstead
Gaffer: Max Halstead
Script Supervisor: Elizabeth Day
Studio: Clapham Road Studios

Set Design: Joseph Mann
Art Department: Joely Brammer, Rose Popham, Emma Denby, Daisy Roth, Emily Barret, Morgan Faverty, Lauren Brown, Aodhagan O’Riordan, Lydia CS, Frank Burgess

Editor: Simone Ghilardotti
Post Production: Simone Ghilardotti & Josh Hine
Grade: Steve Gatti at Moving Picture Company

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Joseph Mann, Music Video

“Rami would actually be a real happy go lucky guy, if he wasn’t so damn strenuous. He’s been perfecting his computer based art for a good 10 years now. Doesn’t it normally take around 10 years to master a craft? Rami isn’t quite there yet, he reckons, but he has learned a thing or two along the way. For example, that less is actually more. And color is good — very good. So come all ye faithful, give him a job or visit him at his modest studio. He will certainly brew you a cup and treat you to a danish — if he doesn’t happen to be in the nearby record shop hunting for some hopelessly knackered Proto-grunge LP.”

He may claim he doesn’t have it dialed yet but his style is pretty slick.

written by Christopher | tags: Comic, Illustration, Rami Niemi, Vector Art

Trendy, trippy and varied are some go-to words to begin describing the highly experimental portfolio of renaissance man Aaron Vergult.

written by Christopher | tags: Aaron Vergult, Art, collage, Design, Psychedelic

Photographer Daniel Castañeda is a master at capturing a lonely, contemplative, slightly eery yet etherial mood. He tends to lean towards black and white for the purpose of emotional affect.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, black and white, Daniel Castaneda, Photography, Portraits

Julien Pacaud generates some strange but interesting image collages. They are highly staged and have a bit of a ‘Monty Python’ twinge to them.

written by Christopher | tags: collage, Illustration, Julien Pacaud, Photoshop

Psychedelic collage artist and graphic designer Tom Sewell has updated with a few new and extremely trippy projects since I last checked in. He also has some of his work available as prints here if you’d like to have a little something to hang on your wall and scare your friends with (shrooms not included).

written by Christopher | tags: Art, collage, Psychedelia, Tom Sewell, U.K.

A friend pointed me to the experimental work of the notorious Gmunk. If you can remember back in the day, probably a generation ago now (yeah I am that old and so is Gmunk) he was a red hot Flash designer as much as he was a motion and 3D animator. You can still see a little bit of that old skillset represented on his experimental site.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Coding, Experimental Work, Flash, Gmunk

Somerville, Massachusetts based studio Oat Creative is doing some air tight branding work with an old school eastern seaboard flair. Think yachts, fishing, good beer and finely-tuned typography and you should start to find the groove.

written by Christopher | tags: Branding, Massachusetts, Oat Creative, Print, Typography

“Chris Burnett is a graphic designer from Los Angeles. He is currently a BFA3 design student at California Institute of the Arts.”

Chris sent me this really cool mailer a month or 2 back and I was really impressed by how considered the final print piece was. He’s got a real flair for typography or ‘type as image’ as I like to call it and he’s going to be a wanted man the minute he sets foot outside the Cal Arts campus. I’d keep an eye on him if I were you.

written by Christopher | tags: Cal Arts, Chris Burnett, Student, Typography

Jake Sargeant is an amazing motion designer and animator who has produced some kick ass works for agencies and film studios. Prepare to be inspired while picking through his portfolio. He’s the real deal.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Black Swan, MN8, motion design

There is some strong work represented in the portfolio of Aussie designer extraordinaire Sam Pemberton, not the least of which includes the city of Melbourne rebrand you no doubt saw rippling through the creative blogosphere a few months prior.

written by Christopher | tags: Australia, Graphic Design, Logo Design, Melbourne

Whoa man! WTF! I guess I could get down with some yarn you know.

Directed by Andrew Thomas Huang
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WINNER at SLAMDANCE 2012 of the Special Jury Prize for Experimental Short

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Cast Featuring: Mary Elise Hayden, Marissa Merrill & Dustin Edward

Executive Producers: David Lyons & Andrew Huang
Producers: Laura Merians & Stephanie Marshall
Cinematographer: Laura Merians
Production Designer: Hugh Zeigler
Costume Designer: Lindsey Mortensen
Hair & Makeup Designer: Jennifer Cunningham
Sound Design & Original Score: Andrew Huang

A Moo Studios & Future You Production

Copyright 2012 Andrew Huang All Rights Reserved.

written by Christopher | tags: Direction, Huang, Short Film, Solipsist

I don’t know a lot, if anything about this project or the film that it’s for but considering the source material, cast and director, it sounds like it could be a pretty strong film.

“Title sequence for a film based on the Kurt Vonnegut novel. Made with Tal Moskovich.

Our goal was to create a visual interpretation of a phenomenon in space known as chrono-synclastic infundibulum, which is defined by Vonnegut as ‘those places … where all the different kinds of
truth fit together.'”

Music by Tomáš Dvořák

written by Christopher | tags: Kurt Vonnegut, motion design, Ridley Scott, Title Sequence

Studio Constantine (The Manual Electric) isn’t the name of some awesome band/album, it’s the name of an extremely talented studio responsible for some inspiring print work.

written by Christopher | tags: Design, Editorial, Europe, Posters, Print

“The second in a series of hand painted studies that aim to psychedelically capture the individual styles of influential skateboarders”

Matt Box is responsible for this great little project and he’s looking for some new people to collaborate/create with/for: matthew-box@live.co.uk

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Art, Matt Box, Painting, Skateboarding

Ohio-based (yeah go Ohio!) Space Junk is cranking out some pretty good-lookin’ motion and animation work including the above piece for Magic The Gathering.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Columbus Ohio, Gaming, motion design, Space Junk

“The idea
To create a deck of 54 unique playing cards. Artists and illustrators pick a card each and design it in their own style. When all designs are submitted, the deck is printed in a strictly limited number of copies, which are distributed between the members of the project.

Project aims
Create something useful, collectable, pretty and unique. For artists and designers to collaborate on an interesting project and show off their unique style and techniques.”

There is already a recognizable roster of talent already represented for the Creative Cards project but there is still more to come.

written by Christopher | tags: Creative Cards, Illustration, Playing Cards, Products

Ruin is ‘an animated short set in a post-apocalyptic universe’ created by aptly named OddBall Animation.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Art, Odball Animation, Short Film