Changethethought

This is a cool video, anchored by a cool concept with some way cool art direction.

Credits:
Music by The Maccabees
Director: David Wilson
Producer: Tamsin Glasson
Prod co: Colonel Blimp
Director of Photography: Tim Green
Gaffer: Steve Finberg
Focus puller: Matt Wesson
DIT: Jay Patel & Ben Worthington
Motion control: The VFX company
Art Direction: Andy Kelly, Clem Miller, Ashley Dando, Shaun Fenn, Sarah Ascroft, Fiona Russel, Arthur deBorman, Die Mortal, Max Halstead
Breasts: Die Mortal
Make Up: Lynda Darrah
Boys: Billie, Hank, Noah and Dylan
Editor: James Rose at Cut and Run
Edit Assistant: Sam Ostrove at Cut and Run
Edit House Producer: Kirsty Oldfield at Cut and Run
Post Production: Andy Godwin at Hogarth Worldwide
Post Production Producer: Lauren Jones at Hogarth Worldwide
Telecine: James Bamford at The Mill London
Telecine Producer: Cath Short at The Mill London
Commissioner: Emily Tedrake
Record Label: Polydor Records
Massive thanks to Clapham Road Studios, VFX and Julliette Larthe
Watch the Making Of here.. vimeo.com/33772475

written by Christopher | tags: Art Direction, Music Video, The Maccabees

We were peeping this a few days back in the studio as a source of inspiration for highly graphic character animation. Way good stuff from Elastic.

Credits:
Design + Animation | Elastic
Art Director | Lisha Tan
Designs | Leanne Dare + Brian Gosset
Animation | Alan Chen + Steven Do
Composer | Rama Kolesnikow
Mix | Nick Bozzone, POP Sound

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Character, Elastic, motion design

Brazilian motion studio Beeld has updated with new projects. They show a lot of promise with some colorful and highly illustrated new animation work. It’s bright, fun and cool.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Beeld, Brazil, motion

Production studio Royale has updated with a new site for the Holidays that includes some visually stunning motion design, animation, illustration and design work. There is no doubting the talent involved and from the pictures on the site, it looks like a very nice place to work.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, la, motion design, Royale

Some sick work from VFX powerhouse Nick Losq. Hella tight, Nick!

written by Mike Slane | tags: Black Swan, losq, rabbit, VFX

“An abstracted visual interpretation of the creation of the Arab Spring. While not setting out to to be a polemic, this short is an optimistic piece about the amazing manifestation of people power that is the Arab Spring. Please note: The cube is NOT meant to represent the Ka’abal.” Well okay then. Credits go to Marxº

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Arab Spring, Marxº, motion design

I’ve been a fan of Yker Moreno’s work for several years now. He keeps himself so busy at Buck that he rarely updates his portfolio much anymore. But he recently posted a few new tender nuggets of design and motion inspiration in his beloved book.

Always worth checking out.

written by Christopher | tags: Buck, Illustration, motion design, Yker Moreno

Old Black is a music video for Egyptrixx created by DAT DAT DAT aka Andreas N. Fischer in who is a Berlin based motion designer and 3D animator.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Andreas N. Fischer, Berlin

Motion Designer/Animator Ned Wenlock’s developed custom typography to narrate and guide the viewer through the music video for MGMT’s latest single ‘All We Ever Wanted Was Everything’. The song itself is a Bauhaus cover and comes from MGMT’s Late Night Tales album. As great as the song and the video is, I can tell you personally that the album is even better. It is by far my most favorite album this year and consists of artists covers curated by MGMT (both the artists and the songs). There are some absolutely fantastic songs on the album and as a whole it’s quite possibly the most consistent play from start to finish of any album I have purchased so far this year. What a dream project this must have been for Ned Wenlock who shares some insight into his process at Motionographer. I would give my right arm to animate a video for MGMT.

written by Christopher | tags: Late Night Tales, MGMT, Music Video, Ned Wenlock

“Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km. All credit goes to them. I intend to upload a FullHD-version presently.

HD, refurbished, smoothed, retimed, denoised, deflickered, cut, etc. All in all I tried to keep the looks of the material as original as possible, avoided adjusting the colors and the like, since in my opinion the original footage itself already has an almost surreal and aestethical visual nature.”

Is space amazing or what? Why can’t well go there for a visit. Could someone make that possible already?

Music: Jan Jelinek | Do Dekor, faitiche back2001
w+p by Jan Jelinek, published by scape Publishing / Universal
janjelinek.com | faitiche.de

Image Courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory,
NASA Johnson Space Center, The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
eol.jsc.nasa.gov

Editing: Michael König | koenigm.com

written by Christopher | tags: film, N.A.S.A., Space, Time Lapse

The guys in the studio turned me onto the motion work of the German studio Polynoid today. The work is slick, psychedelic and totally awesome (case in point the work for Mtv above). You can visit their website and portfolio here.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Germany, motion design, MTV, Polynoid

Saiman Chow has brought his patent psychedelic spin to this spot for Ray-Ban’s ‘Rare Prints’ campaign. It’s refreshing to see that style translated into broadcast. I would expect to see more considering how this has been received so far.

Client: Ray-Ban
Spot title: Rare Prints
Agency: Marcel, Paris
Creative Director : Sebastien Vacherot
Writer : Sebastian Piacentini
Art Director : Bastien Grisolet
Account Manager : Shannon Eddy
TV Producer : Cleo Ferenczi

Director: Saiman Chow
Production Company: Blacklist
Executive Producer: Michael Neithardt
Producer: Patrick Gantert
Associate Producer: Sophie Gate
Compositor: Fred Kim

Animation: Studio Nos
Creative Directors: Mathew Amonson, Jeremy Bronson
Producer: John Bega
Stop Motion Director: Mathew Amonson
Animators: Mathew Amonson, Luca Vitale
Model Fabrication: Junko Shimizu, Zack Williams, Mathew Amonson
Director of Photography: Mathew Amonson

Music and Sound Design: Antfood
Executive Producer: Sean McGovern

Production Service Company: Wam

written by Christopher | tags: Advertising, Broadcast, Ray-Ban, Saiman Chow

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

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Future Deluxe, Motion Graphics

Sander van Dijk is a motion designer who has a very unique reel. He’s had a hand in animating for some heavy hitters like King and Country but he definitely has a unique perspective and his geometric inspired puzzle animations are extremely fun to watch.

written by Christopher | tags: King and Country, Mograph, motion design, Sander van Di

Anck is the work of Renaud Futterer. He is a motion designer who recently relocated to London and is on the hunt for new projects. Judging by his reel, it probably won’t take him long to get busy.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, London, Mograph, motion design, Renaud Futterer

Run Silent is another audio engineering company responsible for putting the finishing sound touches on work produced by the likes of Prologue and Onesize. You will definitely recognize some of the work on their reel if you are a TV junky.

written by Christopher | tags: Audio, Run Silent, Sound, Sweetening

Sound engineering or ‘sweetening’ as we sometimes call it in the industry can be an art that is sometimes (pun intended) lost in the mix. When you find someone good at it that you trust, you hang onto them for dear life. Good audio engineering can make or break your spot and few people do it better than Marcelo Baldin AKA Combustion. The understanding of his talent should be immediate from the moment you land on the homepage and see the amazing works that he has help top off.

written by Christopher | tags: Audio, Marcelo Baldin, Mix, Sound, Sweetening

“Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London’s new robot workforce – robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting in unplanned, cheap and quick additions to the skyline.

The film follows the trials and tribulations of young robots surviving at the sharp end of inner city life, living the predictable existence of a populous hemmed in by poverty, disillusionment and mass unemployment. When the Police invade the one space which the robots can call their own, the fierce and strained relationship between the two sides explodes into an outbreak of violence echoing that of 1981.”

Credits:
Kibwe Tavares – Direction, animation, modeling, lighting, texturingetc…
David Hoffman – Photographer Brixton riots archive.hoffmanphotos.com/
Mourad Bennacer – Sound Designer designsonore.tumblr.com/
DJ Hiatus “The Great Insurrection” hiatusmusic.net

More at: factoryfifteen.com

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Factory Fifteen, motion design, Robots