Changethethought

I deliberately waited a while to post this until it wasn’t still on all the other design blogs. The guys at You Work For Them were nice enough to send me a copy of their recent short film release entitled, ‘The Interpretation‘.

I watched the video a week or so ago while sitting in my Eames lounge inside my little reading nook with all the lights off. It was raining hard outside complete with lightening and thunder. I don’t think I could have imagined a better scenario within which to watch The Interpretation. The film is really an exercise in the interplay between sound, color, hints of nature and minimal animation. Some of it drags on a little long, but overall it is interesting to watch and would be a great thing to play in the background of a party.

There is more than one video on the actual disk and the one I was most drawn to was actually an older film where someone is walking almost as though you are seeing through someone’s eyes inside of a dream. That video left the strongest image in my psyche. If you pick it up, be sure to browse the extra videos.

I have been a big fan of Design Grafik/You Work For Them/We Work For Them for a long long time now and they are always worth keeping an eye on.

written by Christopher | tags: Motion Graphics, The Interpretation, You Work For Them

The video for The Emperor’s Machine – Kananana is a music video come Science Fiction short. Written and directed by Cassiano Prado.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Motion Graphics, Music Video, The Emperor Machine

Teenocide opened my mind to an entirely new world of possibilities with animated gifs. I had no idea you could do so much with them. Really amazing and totally trippy. I don’t even know what to file this one under.

written by Christopher | tags: Animated Gifs, Animation, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Teenocide

Mara Smalley has some beautiful motion board work in her portfolio.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Boards, Illustration, Mara Smalley, Motion Graphics

Danish motion studio, Form Troopers come storming out of the gate with a really impressive body of work and equally impressively smooth website.

written by Christopher | tags: Copenhagen, Denmark, Form Troopers, Motion Graphics

Jodi A.K.A. Stefano Dembro, sent me a nice email this morning letting me in on the tidbit that he had updated his website with some really nice new work across several mediums.

written by Christopher | tags: Brooklyn, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Stefano Dembro

Laura Alejo has updated her portfolio with some really striking new work.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Illustration, Laura Alejo, Motion Graphics

When considering this entire short film was created by way of stop motion animation created with stills shot from a camera hung from the ceiling pointing straight at the floor, you just have to kind of look at it in awe and be inspired.

written by Christopher | tags: Animtaion, Motion Graphics, Short Film, Stop Motion

“A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.”

Beautiful. From Joaquin Baldwin.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Joaquin Baldwin, Motion Graphics

Animated by Clem Stamation
Commissioned using radarmusicvideos.com

Links, links and one more link:
waxstag.com
peopleinthesky.com
clemstamation.com

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Clem Stamation, Motion Graphics, Wax Stag

Kristof Luyckx Reel 2009 from Kristof Luyckx on Vimeo.

Kristof Luyckx’s reel made me laugh, and it’s full of good motion work.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Kristof Luyckx, Motion Graphics

Digital Kitchen have revamped their online presence. We have worked with them before at Cactus and the are one of the best out there.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Digital Kitchen, Direction, Effects, Motion Graphics

I really dug both this video and the song.

music by: Secta Chameleon
video by: Emil Goodman

written by Christopher | tags: Motion Graphics, Music Video, Secta Chameleon, video

Amsterdam-based motion graphics studio Addikt have updated their reel and portfolio for 2009 with some great projects.

written by Christopher | tags: Addikt, Amsterdam, Animation, Motion Graphics

Stardust sent me news of this recent campaign for J-Power in Japan. I was really amazed by the animation. Beautiful work.

Wow, there is a lot of credits on this one:
PROJECT NAME: J-POWER “nature”
RUNNING TIME: :30
DATE OF FIRST AIRING: April 15, 2009 (Japan only)
FILM STAGE/LOCATION(S): Japan

CLIENT: Electric Power Development Co., Ltd (“J-POWER”)
CITY/STATE: Tokyo, Japan

AD AGENCY: McCann Erickson Japan, Inc.
CITY/STATE: Tokyo, Japan
CREATIVE DIRECTOR/COPYWRITER: Isamu Nakamura
ART DIRECTORS: Takehiko Araki, Kenichi Horie

PRODUCTION COMPANIES: kirameki, inc. & Stardust Studios
CITY/STATE: Tokyo, Japan & Bicoastal, USA
DIRECTOR: Jake Banks
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Naoki Noda
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Sachiko Tamaru (kirameki)
PRODUCER: Yoshiki Ishii (kirameki)

DESIGN/ANIMATION COMPANY: Stardust Studios
CITY/STATE: Bicoastal, USA
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jake Banks
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Paul Abatemarco
DESIGN DIRECTOR: Neil Tsai
PRODUCERS: Jody MacKinnon, Clara Park, Steven Poulsen
DESIGNERS: Neil Tsai, Gretchen Nash, Tosh Kodama, Bill Bak, Ling Feng, Angela Ko, Jenny Ko, Juliet Park
ANIMATORS: Sang Lee, Angie Tien, Brian Broussard, George Longo, Damon Snyder, Ryan Hooks, Marisol Baltierra, Catherine Yoo, Giancarlo Rondani, Maithy Tran, Thomas Horne
2D ARTISTS: Brian Williams, Davina Sanchex, Stephen Edwards, Kristen Swanson

MUSIC ARTIST: Hifana
MUSIC PRODUCER: Masayo Okino

ADDITIONAL POST-PRODUCTION: Sony PCL
CITY/STATE: Tokyo, Japan
ONLINE EDITOR: Masashi Hosoda
MIXER: Tsutomu Higa

FINAL MIX COMPANY: Omnibus
CITY/STATE: Tokyo, Japan
MIXER: Norisato Nakauchi

written by Christopher | tags: Advertising, J-Power, Japan, Motion Graphics, Stardust

Wow. I am not entirely sure if this is an official music video or what exactly it is for, you can read more about it here at the Vimeo page. Either way, I think my brain kind of melted a little while I was watching it.

written by Christopher | tags: Capital, Lyapis Trubetskoy, Motion Graphics, Music Video

This is something you don’t see much of. A video animated entirely from chalk drawings. The video was directed by Lucinda Schreiber and Yanni Kronenberg for the Firekites single ‘Autumn Story’. Beautiful song as well.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Autumn Story, Firekits, Motion Graphics

Shilo developed this video, which recently aired at the F5 Festival for BrotherSister’s single ‘Still Run’ off of their new album ‘The Wunder Tales’.

The making of the video was quite an ordeal. Here is Shilo’s Creative Director Andre Stringer on the process of producing the video:

“After listening to the record, I just fell in love with the poetry of the song and lyrics,” Stringer began. “For the video, I wanted to explore the idea of perseverance through change and adversity, and we found a way to take that idea to an epic scale by using one seamless shot where a person runs though time and space. We began by shooting a five-second test of the guy running in front of a green screen, and over the course of about a year, we turned that into a full music video. Almost everyone in the studio has touched it at some point, including Dante when he was here contributing sound design and music to some of our other projects.”

Full Credits:
Production Company: Shilo
Director: Shilo
Creative Director: Andre Stringer
Lead Artist: Andre Stringer, Christopher Fung
Executive Producer: Tracy Chandler
Producer: Lindsay Bodanza
Editor: Galen Summer
3D Artists: Christopher Fung, Dave Hill, Joji Tsuruga, Warren Heimall
Visual FX Artists: Warren Heimall, Tamir Sapir
3D Modeling: Christina Ku, Scott Denton
2D Animator: Stieg Retlin
Compositors: Andre Stringer, Dave Hill, Rick Malwitz, Joel Voelker, Christopher Fung, Warren Heimall, Joji Tsuruga, Kirsten Hall
Assistant Compositor: Helen Kim
Photographers: Joel Voelker, Christopher Fung
Matte Painters: Andre Stringer, Christopher Fung
Miniatures: Willi Patton

Original Music: “Still Run” from BrotherSister’s 2008 release “The Wunder Tales”

Sound Design: Echolab
Sound Designer: Gavin Little

And more about BrotherSister here.

written by Christopher | tags: BrotherSister, Motion Graphics, Music Video, Shilo, Still Run