‘Auto Typo’ by yordan admiral on Vimeo. Pity it’s not a little longer, I like a bit of Sub Focus!
A dark, but very engaging video piece by Mischa Rozema and British graphic designer, Si Scott for OFFF Barcelona 2011. The film guides you through their vision of the future with the artists involved in this years OFFF festival’s names embedded throughout in a range of interesting ways. Varying from neon signs looming down from oppressive cityscapes to black letter tattoos being filled in they thread all of the artists names into their story seamlessly. Below is how they describe the piece on their Vimeo –
“The idea was to trick the audience into thinking they’re watching some kind of documentary. We basically follow a guy going home. Bit by bit his environment gets stranger and more uncomfortable to watch. Is he living in a war zone? Slowly the background takes over and the piece changes into an urban nightmare. And like a nightmare, the story/edit doesn’t always make sense but makes you feel really uncomfortable. I also wanted the viewer to experience the nightmare. That’s where the dark matter comes in. Dark matter is what I call the macro shot bits. Flashes that derail your train of thought like there’s something eating away at your brain as you try to make sense of the nightmare. I wanted the viewer to go nuts, alongside with the cast. Erase the line between nightmare and reality. The end result is something you won’t come across easily on your tv. And is also just another fun way to do titles.”
You can read about the video in full here
and visit the OFFF website here
Bulmers Metro newspaper takeover. You can see it here for a limited time only!
http://www.metro.co.uk/home/
Or read more about this project here –
http://www.tomwalshdesign.co.uk/blog/tag/bulmers/
The first of a collection of HTML5 & Javascript animated experiments produced by Exposure Studio for the Bulmers Cider Summer campaign. I had the luck of being the freelancer given this project to work on, and although it’s been hard work, and due to the 3D rendered assets provided by Taylor James has involved a lot of very large files, it’s going to be worth it. The other experiments will be rolled out over the coming weeks, so make sure you check back here, or on the Bulmers Facebook page, to catch them all!
Visit their page here Facebook/BulmersUK
A series of Facebook Apps I worked on while at Exposure as part of the Bulmers ‘Experimenters Wanted’ Summer campaign. They describe the campaign as –
“…celebrating the launch of new Bulmers Nº17 by running a series of experiments across the country all summer long…”
Experiments vary from Quick Polls to tweet powered robot races, you can check them all out here
Or read similar posts about my work on this campaign here
Made over 3 Days using Illustrator and After Effects this typographic short by Ira Glass has
a quaint storybook style that makes it a little easier on the eye than some of it’s blockier counterparts.
A nice looking music video for Dubstep duo Matta by Kim Holm. I always think it must be hard to visualise this genre of music, but
this one certainly does the track justice. With his trademark use of colour he makes something quite dark pretty nice to look at.
You can see more of Director Kim Holm’s work on his Vimeo page here
A cute animation by Aardman Studio for W+K about ‘Dot’, a tiny 9mm girl who wakes up in a magical, magnified world to discover her surroundings are caving in around her.
Shot entirely on a Nokia N8 handset fitted with ‘CellScope’ (technology developed to help diagnose fatal diseases in remote areas of third world countries), ‘Dot’ was so small they had to create her with a 3D printer, producing 50 models in all to capture all the different movements she made. On their site they explain the project saying they
“..used innovative Rapid Prototyping 3D printing technology that uses a computer-generated model of an object or character and then prints it in full 3D using a plastic resin material. The entire set was no more than a metre and a half long, all elements of which were used to help sell the scale of the project to the viewer. The film was painted under a microscope by expert modelmakers and animated using tweezers; “It became a real test of working at such a small scale, and in having the patience to push on through ’til the end'” said Aardman director Ed Patterson. “The final film has come out better than we could have hoped for. It was great collaborating with Wieden + Kennedy and to gel so well creatively. The Nokia N8 stood up to the challenge and produced some outstanding images”.
You can read about it in more detail on their site here
Lovely animation by Malcolm Sutherland from Flatpack Festival 2011.
“An explorer adventures into an unknown world, yet it seems that he has been there before.
A short animated film directed by Malcolm Sutherland in 2010. With music by Alison Melville and Ben Grossman, and foley by Leon Lo. Sound design / mix by Malcolm Sutherland.
The animation is all hand-drawn; a mix of drawing / pastels on paper and digital animation with Toonboom Studio and a wacom cintiq tablet, assembled in After Effects 7 and edited in Sony Vegas 8.”
