From the source:
“Animated light paintings of a little piano player performing. Filmed at night with the lovely I-5 and San Diego skyline in the background. Frames were photographed with a Canon Rebel using 20-30 second exposure time. A small green LED keychain light was used to draw each frame. Once all the positions were photographed they were strung together and synchronized to the music in After Effects.”
My friends at Lifelongfriendshipsociety recently released a new spot for MaxMara that is quietly beautiful and every bit as original as the rest of the work in their portfolio. We have been working with them here at the agency I work (Cactus), and I just can’t say enough good things about them. They just kick ass. We shared some good times in NYC together and they have just been doing an awesome job on the series of spots they are producing for us. It didn’t take my writing partner and I long to feel like we had honorarily joined their ‘friendship society’. As good as things have been going, I would love to work with them again sometime in the near future. In short, we love them and if you are in the market for a top notch motion firm, you would be hard pressed to find someone better.
Above you can see an older promo they produced for Lost at E Minor that shows off exactly the kind of sensitivity to style, production, sound and artistic integrity that I was talking about. They pour themselves all the way into everything they do and that’s why we love them.
There is some nice work in the portfolio of recent graduate Trevor Gilley.
Really interesting music video. Full credits below.
Artist: Thomas Feiner & Anywhen
Record name: “The Opiates – revised”
Song: “The Siren Songs”
Record label: Samadhisound (cd ss013)
Animation: Aubo Lessi vs. Thomas Feiner.
parkink.net | thomasfeiner.com
Some nice work for both motion and print from Niels Fyrst.
I am particularly loving this music video for Bjørn Svin for the track Modular Noi.
Chandler Owen and William Boyer recently formed a new motion studio called Signal, in Charlotte, NC. Signal writes, concepts, sketches, designs, produces, directs, shoots, animates and edits for projects created for all screens including film, television, video, internet and DVD.
They have some big named clients already in their book, no doubt from prior experience. Their production is top quality though and I would say they are definitely off and running already at a sprinter’s pace. Excellent work.
Interesting work from Nicolas Lesaffre who works as an animation director and graduated from Supinfocom in France. While studying there he codirected a film called Hernando that has been shown in several film festivals including Imagina, the Siggraph, So Short Film Fest and Anifest. He has worked for several companies in the capacity of either director or 3D artist.
Metamorphosis is programmed entirely in Processing, it’s the follow up to Glen Marshall’s ‘Music is Math’ video. The music is by Boards of Canada. The track is ‘Corsair’ off of the Geogaddi album.
You can find more info on this video at butterfly.ie
And you can see more of Marshall’s work here.
I am really loving this title sequence for the Mad in Spain conference by Helio Vega. Expertly done.
I so wish I could make it to Mad in Spain this year. I would love to attend and it would be super cool to speak there sometime in the future. Maybe someday. I can dream.
Very nice work in the freshly updated portfolio of Julien Vallée.
Melbourne-based XYZ Studios has updated with a new website full of really stunning work for motion. Top notch all the way.
The almighty Tronic has updated their great portfolio with some new work. They are a guarantee. Always interesting and original work.
Marcello Buselli has hit the ground running debuting his portfolio which is full of great work for motion.
Wow, the latest motion treatments for Pioneer from Superfad are stunning.
“LABOUR is a Brooklyn, NY-based creative office that employs a bold and original working method across a full spectrum of media, from moving image and audio to printed matters and intellectual properties.
Founded by longtime collaborators Ryan Dunn and Wyeth Hansen, LABOUR is a unique beast – a small studio that is equally at home designing information systems for tech clients, directing music videos, writing and recording music, designing typefaces, or creating brand identities from the ground up.”
Interesting things are happening through the creative workings of Jesse Kanda.
“Founded in 2005 by Architects Zoe Boira Coombes and F. David Boira, Commonwealth is an art and design studio based in New York City. Harnessing a new fluidity enabled by machine languages, Commonwealth’s interests are as material and emotional as they are technical. Deeply influenced by the artistic disciplines that naturally hover at the borders of design, Commonwealth’s works have been showcased in galleries in Europe, America and the Middle East, and their architectural and visual designs have been commissioned by culture-driven clients such as Issey Miyake and Warp Records. Working within the world of contemporary art and industrial furniture design, Commonwealth aims to produce work that embodies a sense of elegant desire through an engagement with both the newest of tools and the oldest of techniques.”
“NCC works broadly across disciplines in creative direction, graphic, installation, film and motion. Since its establishment in the 90’s, it continues to develop by hand a raw, layered, collaged, and primal approach while expanding in scope and vision. The mission is always to remain experimental and diverse working closely with clients, curators, galleries and institutions on a broad range of specific print executions, billboards and other one-off projects. NCC has released three monographs/books: Neasden Control Centre (Die Gestalten Verlag, 2003); Smithfield Building (Rojo, 2006); and Lost Control (Die Gestalten Verlag, 2007). Both the 2003 and 2006 books have sold out. Other work includes editioned screenprints, zines and working with universitites / publishing houses on a broad range of exhibitions, public programme’s, installations, talks and workshops. NCC has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions across Europe and in Group Shows that include the Spank The Monkey exhibition at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art where NCC together with Banksy and David Shrigley were the three invited British artists. As well as regular commissions, NCC has attracted Arts Council of England and British Council support for its projects.”
Oh and yes, they have a brand new website to check out right here.
