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I played football growing up but was terrible at it. I was always curious about Rugby since I am good at being mean and rough but have very little athletic ability. I thought I could probably find a place in rugby. Judging by the rules and the players in this little spot by Soap Creative I am now certain this is a sport I would be interested in playing. I was curious if anyone knows what league these ladies play in and where I could possibly sign up to join one of their teams and maybe just help out a little. I could sit on the sidelines if I wasn’t good enough and just spray water on them if it was too hot outside. You know, just help out.

Oh, my wife just walked in. Gotta go, see you guys later!

written by Christopher | tags: Rugby, Rules, Sexy, Soap Creative

Nando Costa sent in this recent promotional spot for the Cartoon Network. It’s of course amazing as is everything his hand seems to touch. We were thrilled just to see his name in our inbox. He worked in tandem with the amazing people at Superfad on this and you can see the enormous list of talent below. We have worked on projects similar to this in the past and you’ll have to take our word for it that producing something like this is extremely difficult. Excellent work again Nando.

Client: Cartoon Network Latin America
Writer/Producer: Manoela Muraro
Production Coordinator: Equana Davis

Production Company: Superfad
Director: Nando Costa
DP: Steve McGehee
Line Producer: John Gomez
Executive Producer: Chris Volckmann

Animation & Post: Superfad
Creative Director: Nando Costa
Art Director: Sean Dekkers
Character Design: Sean Dekkers, Patrick Clarke, Julieta Rodriguez
Lead 3D Artist: Matt Guzzardo
Technical Director: Robin Scher
Modeling/Rigging: Patrick Clarke, Adam Rosenzweig, Andrew Butterworth
Animation: Patrick Clarke, Greg Bekken, Ian Mankowski
Lighting/Texturing: ShuChen Lin
Simulations/FX: Phipat Pinyosophon
Lead Compositor: Joel Voelker
Compositors: Marco Giampaolo, Lu Liu
2D Animation: Nando Costa, Sean Dekkers
Editor: Ryan Haug
Colorist: Joel Voelker
Producer: Jen Schmithorst
Executive Producer: Chris Volckmann

Sound design: JC Richardson
Studio: Magick Lantern
Voiceover: Ethan Major

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Cartoon Network, Nando Costa

If after many years of fucking experience, I could be so bold as to offer one fucking piece of fucking advice it would be to buy this fucking screen print, fucking frame it and fucking display it at your shop or fucking agency so all of your fucking people and clients can fucking see it because it holds many fucking truths.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Screen Print, Silkscreen, Typography

Dlew made this short for his final episode of “Everything,” an anthology series at Channel101.

The music is Jean Jacques Perrey’s “Little Ships”

Someone brought this to my attention a couple of weeks back in the studio and I forgot to post it. It’s stuck in my mind ever since the first viewing and now it will be stuck in yours.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Channel 101, Dlew, motion design

Paranoid finally puts the tilt-shift technique to good use or at least a commercial use for this amazing TV spot. Now why didn’t I think of that? Damn.

Annonceur : RFF Agence :W / ATJUST Directeur de la Création: Thomas Stern – Ivan Pierens Directeur Artistique FILM: Ivan Pierens Concepteur-Rédacteur FILM: Thomas stern Réalisateur : Thierry Poiraud Responsable Annonceur : Christophe Piednoël- Thierry Jankowski, Anne Le Garrec Responsable Agence: François Lamotte – Grégoire Weil Production : Paranoid Production 3D : BUF

written by Christopher | tags: France, Live Action, Paranoid, Tilt Shift

Topher MacDonald used to live right here in Colorado around the corner from Denver in Longmont. But now he has transplanted himself to New York. Now why would you go and do something like that? He’s got some great work in his book and is currently accepting commissions.

written by Christopher | tags: Illustration, New York, Topher MacDonald

There must be no rules at MTV when it comes to these promos and I think that is brilliant. Hence the sheer madness that is this spot from PepperMelon.

written by Christopher | tags: Broadcast, MTV, Peppermelon, Promo

“The Alphabet 2- a horn book video experiment – is a developmental spelling – video where each character visually represents the meaning of the word itself. Playing with different techniques and materials into little and big spaces, but always focusing on Helvetica font’s proportions. A collection of words in a delightful spelling-video.”

Direction / Postproduction / Sound Design
Alessandro Novelli

Design / Animation / Set Design
Andrea Gendusa / Alessandro Novelli

Additional Animation and Set Design
Mario Arcadu

DOP
Giulia Arantxa Novelli

Thanks To:
Alina & Michela Dettori, Bianca Novelli, Federica Patitucci, Caterina Pecoraro, Stefano Tore

music track:
Fréhel “Tel qu’il est” 1936

n9ve web site
n9ve.it

written by Christopher | tags: Alphabet, France, Live Action, Typography

Lior Ben Horin produced this for his graduate film at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. The music is by Nadav Ravid. Visit headonfilm.com for more info. about Horin.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Bezalel, Lior Ben Horin, motion

Alright this is just one more reason that as a new studio ourselves, we are totally inspired and motivated by studios like I Love Dust. Out of a sheer love for kitsch and art they have put together an exhibition devoted to the colorful characters known only as professional wrestlers and have specifically dedicated the show to members of said part that have departed the land of the living. The event is called The Dead Wrestler Society and will be exhibiting at The Aspex Gallery in Gunwharf Quays, PORTSMOUTH with a preview 21 September 6pm – 8pm and the full showing from 21 September to 30 October 2011. I so wish I could attend this one. What a great idea.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, England, I Love Dust, Professional Wrestling

Improving upon, competing with or even coming close the the juggernaut typeface Helvetica is no small task. But that didn’t stop Mash Creative from making an extremely valiant effort in doing so. The end result of that effort is a typeface called RM Regular that you can now purchase at Hype For Type. It’s a beauty. I’d expect to see this one cropping up in a few projects out there this next year.

written by Christopher | tags: Hype For Type, Mash Creative, RM Regular

Uhh. Hmm. Yeah, no comment really on this one except for WTF maybe? But WTF in a kind of awesome inspiring way.

written by Christopher | tags: Animated Gifs, black and white, Victorian

“For years we have had an urge to create a character-driven animation piece. For us, the opportunity came knocking in the Fall of 2010 disguised in the form of a pitch for ‘Funcheez’.

We got excited and pulled out all the stops for the pitch. We designed characters and environments, drew up storyboards, colour boards, and boardomatics. The pitch was beautiful and fun, but in the end the client decided to go with another studio for the spot.

But it was too late—we had somehow fallen completely in-love with our strange little alien creatures and rather than relegating them to our salon des refusés to gather dust, decided to take the plunge and build a story around them.

Read more about the project and how it came to life on our site here.”

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Character Art, Studio Tendril

Illustrator and type as image illustrator I should say, Job Wouters AKA Letman has updated with some excellent new work.

written by Christopher | tags: Amsterdam, Holland, Job Wouters, Letman

It’s not really news whenever someone starts a Tumblr account but when that someone is bad ass illustrator and tattoo artist Mike Giant well…then it is news.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Mike Giant, Rebel 8, SF, Tattoo

Painter and illustrator Casey Weldon recently updated with some new work including the lovely painting above for the Pixies tribute show.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Casey Weldon, Painting, Pixies Tribute

Illustrator Kevin Tong has been on a roll this year with some seriously amazing prints created for the likes of Mondo and Spoke Art. He is about to drop some new prints this week and that makes it as good a time as any for the uninitiated to check out his work.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Drawing, Illustration, Kevin Tong, Posters

Gerhard Human is more than just an awesome name, he’s an illustrator who generates colorful, poppy and gyrating images of crazy characters.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Drawing, Gerhard Human, Illustration