Genki Ito joined W+K Tokyo Lab in 2004 working on projects for Google, Nike and PlayStation. He’s the recipient of several design awards and has worked in several mediums of art and design. Talk about an unusual reel.
Brazilian graphic design and animation studio Lobo has been animating graphics since the very idea of doing so started to become fashionable (at least in the capacity that it is done today). They have recently completed several new projects for several large clients that you can check out at their website. They have stayed at the top of their game and are still one of the very best in the business.
This weeks alphabet video by motion designer, animator and illustrator Daniele Manoli is all about the letter ‘W’.
Oh Buck let me count the ways you inspire me. I have had the unique experience of working for an agency that hired Buck and was totally mind blown by what they produced. They are still high atop my list of the very best motion, animation and creative film studios out there. Above is plenty testimony to that fact.
You can thank Nando Costa for this compelling title sequence for this years Flash on the Beach event which I had honestly never heard of until I watched these titles. Nando is extraordinarily talented in the realm of motion and animation. He used metals with magnetic properties to accomplish this sequence and I especially enjoyed how the style and video do the heavy lifting while the typography is treated so exquisitely simple that it almost isn’t there. It’s a delicate balance that works very well.
I recently emailed Nando about my own studio but alas, never got a response. Well, here’s to him and his work regardless because I consider him one of the very best in the field.
From what little I can gather from Facu Samman’s website is that he is Brazlian (or Portuguese) and an illustrator, 3D artist and animator. He’s most likely young as his portfolio reflects that but he is definitely doing some interesting things and could be rolling out a much more aggressive portfolio in the future. Definitely someone to check back on in the coming months.
Rafael Morinaga is a motion designer from Minas Gerais, Brazil. He has a wildly colorful portfolio of trendy but highly expressionistic and sometimes experimental project work. It’s all part and parcel for the great wave of design sweeping it’s way across Brazil where lately some very colorful, fun and exciting work seems to keep pouring out.
I am going to to something a little different here starting today. Swedish born Hong Kong based director/designer/illustrator/animator Daniele Manoli sent me an email about a project he did with no budget just to stretch himself creatively and I must say that I was incredibly impressed. He created a short film for every single letter in the alphabet. That’s 26 different short films full of animation, motion graphics, live action and any other technique Daniele felt like experimenting with. It’s quite an amazing project and we (at the Ctt studio) were super impressed with the effort and the shear volume of experimentation and techniques employed. We were also totally stoked that he shared it with us right away.
So all that being said (and back to my original sentence), I am going to post one of the videos everyday for the next 26 days starting in random order. Today it is the letter ‘G’, which we were rather fond of. You can see all of the videos here.
Um. Wow. I mean holy crap. Umeric’s new reel is amazing. Really. They are brimming over with talent and a wild imagination. It looks like those qualities are keeping their team busy too and that’s great to see.
London based motion and design studio Man Vs Machine has updated with a new site and lots of slick new work including some nice idents for SyFy (we at Ctt need to score some ident work). There is lots of inspiring motion work to be found in their portfolio.
Spanish motion and design agency Binalogue served up some super fun and fresh graphics for Coke to be played at dance clubs and the like.
You just have to take your hat off to Dvein. They keep producing unexpected and rather undefinable yet totally original work. It’s always interesting and it looks like they must be having a great time producing it. Hats off.
This particular piece is to celebrate the 100th issue of IdN magazine (idnworld.com/ 100/).
Russian broadcast and motion graphics designer Andrey Nepomnyaschev has recently relaunched his site and updated with new and slick project work.
Brian Gosset’s chosen title ‘The Art of Doing Something‘ symbolizes his philosophy to do art he feels good about and in turn hopefully inspire others to get involved in making the world a better place to live in. That’s a noble stance. He also happens to have an absolutely spectacular commercial portfolio as well. He’s an inspiring talent.
This experimental video directed and animated by Andrey Nepomnyaschev has been making the blogospheric rounds lately and for good reason, it’s a wild one.
Justin Blyth who used to occasionally write an occasional somethin’ somethin’ for Changethethought and also runs the expertly curated image/pop/trend-inspiration blog Them Thangs (which is awesome by the way) is also an excellent designer/illustrator/motionographer and has just updated his website and portfolio. He also recently printed and released a curatorial magazine under the tile ‘Them Thangs’ as well. Needless to say, Justin is a multi-talented individual and whatever he is up to is worth looking into.
ThreeLeggedLegs has some choice words for all of us as we continue to multiply like an infestation and destroy our planet. And they put together these choice words in the form of a fantastic little animation created simply for the hell of it.
2am Club is the work of John Fan who has spent time in the past at Logan, Blind and Motion Theory. He has a diverse portfolio of work displaying a wide array of talents that consistently deliver memorable results.
