Naked instructed me to ‘ignore the music’ and watch the visuals but they are kinda part and parcel with one another when it comes to this sorta thing. I actually think they work rather well together but I will also admit that the visuals are definitely the more amazing of the pair. Bright, bold, neon and beautiful are words that are easily put to use.
Radical.
Created by FutureDeluxe / futuredeluxe.co.uk / twitter.com/futuredeluxe
Creative direction – Andrew Jones
3d & animation – Jim Howells / Xander Marritt
Post production – Xander Marritt
Sound design – Zelig Sound
Ash Thorp has developed a wealth of visuals while working for Prologue Films and has managed to amass the kind of portfolio that will have many frothing at the mouths, both out of jealously over his insane talent and the kind of top billing projects he has managed to work on. Dig into his portfolio and prepare to be inspired.
Thomas Traum has updated with some absolutely wild new work for multiple mediums that is bursting with dynamic imagery and color.
Uniform is a brand communications agency based in Liverpool with a portfolio full of inspirational work. They have a wonderful little video on their homepage that explains their agency. Good stuff.
Dutch designer/illustrator/motionographer Menno Fokma has been busy lately and recently updated with some new personal work as well as some new projects for clients like Mtv.
Our friends at ‘Friends of Mine‘ who we have collaborated and worked with in the past have updated their website and rebranded themselves. We have always enjoyed working with them, and even though we are all running different studios here in Denver we maintain close relationships with our brothers in arms here and consider them good friends. So we were super excited to see they have been cranking out some great work lately and their new website looks wonderful. Congratulations guys and we look forward to working with you more in the future.
FutureDeluxe releases their latest reel of excellent work for 2011 set against a musical backdrop from Lykke Li with the aptly titled song ‘Get Some’. So go ahead and do as the song says and take it in.
The Node is a new project from the imaginative mind of Murat Pak.
“‘The Node’ is a project of time-image represented as pixels, which is connected to its reinterpretations done by various frequency artists.
“The Node” should be considered as a virtual installation including a collection of recurrences. Each audial redesign of ‘The Node’ will be made by the pure minds in the list below. A notification will be made when each version goes online.”
Antfood, Audionerve, Box of Toys Audio, Calvin Markus, Combustion, Cypheraudio, David Della Santa, David Kamp, Drasko Vucevic, Ece Pak, Echolab, Jeff Dodson, Mutant Jukebox, Studio-Takt, Nikolai von Sallwitz aka Taprikk Sweezee and Wiener Music
Motion designer, illustrator and exceptionally imaginative Jonathan Saunders has updated with some downright gorgeous work for PSYOP. His talent is undeniable and his work shows the craft of a true artist.
Darkmatters sets out to make computer like effects without the use of a computer. Deamon is a take on analogue wireframes based on Strings and nails.
Soon every home will have a robot helper. Don’t worry. It’s perfectly safe.
Written & Directed by Ruairi Robinson
Starring Max Records from “Where The Wild Things Are”.
Cinematography by Macgregor
Music by Ólafur Arnalds, courtesy of Erased Tapes
Funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann / Irish film Board
At first I wasn’t quite sure what to make of this low-fi animation titled ‘Orpheus’ Pony’ by Michael Fragstein but then it sunk in just how much is actually going on in it and how truly psychedelic it really is, then I was hooked. Bizarre but good.
Direction: Michael Fragstein
Music : Lisa Tuyala, Marc Fragstein
Production : Büro Achter April
‘Manifesto Fragments’ is a projects spearheaded by Tendril Design and Animation that was originally conceived in order to find and channel new inspiration as to what attracted Tendril to the motion and animation industry in the first place. The project is playing out as bits of a visual manifesto with each part being able to stand on it’s own while also working as a part of the manifesto whole. The first in the series is above and is entitled ‘Seed’.
Production Company: Tendril Design+Animation Inc.
Concept and Direction: Vini Nascimento
Title Design: Chris Bahry
Executive Producer: Kate Bate
Producer: Anne Deslauriers
Music & Sound Design: John Black of CypherAudio
3D Animation: Alexandre Torres, Vini Nascimento
Particles and FX Animation: Chris Bahry
Lighting & Render: Alexandre Torres
Compositing: Chris Bahry
Justin Blyth is a multi-faceted and multi-talented individual who has also occasionally dropped a post on Changethethought from time-to-time. Lately he has been curating some exceptional tee through Blood is the New Black and running his always inspirational curated image blog Them Thangs. Aside from all of that he still manages to find time to create experimental art and design work. In short, he’s awesome.
David O’Reilly has inspired a lot of creatives over a long period of time and he recently has his first world premiere of his short film ‘The External World’ at the 67th Venice Film Festival and had his U.S. premiere at Sundance 2011.
London- based motion design studio We Are Seventeen are cranking out some wild work using both graphics and 3D for a wide variety of big-name clients.
Very nice video directed by Chris Alender and produced by Kris Eber for Soapbox Films ‘Eye of the Storm’ is from the upcoming Lovett album Highway Collection, available March 15, 2011.
