“I am a designer, director and artist from the Netherlands, living in Berlin.
After graduating college in 2002 I established a company in Amsterdam providing illustration, graphic design and animation for clients such as MTV Asia, Nickelodeon, Submarinechannel, Esquire, Volkskrant Magazine and Park Avenue. This year (2008) I relocated to the German capital. And although I have not stopped working for clients, my primary focus for the moment is on personal work.”
The above video was created as the opener for the 2010 Pictoplasma Festival. You can see more of Fons Schiedon’s videos at his Vimeo page as well.
I can’t really say much about Sean Dekkers because he doesn’t say anything about himself at his new website. He does however have some excellent work for motion in his portfolio.
Eduard Mateo, Jordi Oró and Joel Barber have relaunched the Medusa Team studio website with a bright new look and an updated portfolio featuring their multidisciplinary project work. It’s bright, trendy and colorful and it looks like they are having a good time doing what they love. Good for you guys, go get ’em.
Designer Adam Gault has launched his own studio based out of Long Island City, NY. The studio has a small but highly considered body of work. I was particularly fascinated by a project completed for MSNBC and excited to see it put into use on the network.
It’s funny, there studio looks a lot like ours before we began our remodel. Maybe I should have just left it along and let it be what it is. Oh well, too late now.
A dreamy little diddy directed by Directed by TAKCOM. You can download the Vital EP for free here. To be perfectly honest the music is a little saccharin for my taste but the motion work for the video is beautiful.
Ziul is the work of Brazilian designer/art director/director/animator/compositor Marcel Luiz currently lives in Santa Monica, CA. He recently launched his first website to share with the world what he has been up to and he has been busy generating some colorful motion work.
I am really digging the style of this teenage suicide prevention PSA originally commissioned by DDB NY/Ad council. Slick.
Credits:
Direction: Mirrorshade
Animation: Mirrorshade
Music: Finn Mcnicholas
Foley: Jason Arber
Production Company: Guru Studio
Creative Director: Frank Falcone
Agency Producer: Matt Nowak DDB NY
Client: Ad Council
Sound: Syndicate
German designer/motion designer and illustrator extraordinaire Sebastian Onufszak has updated his portfolio once again with some visually stunning new work in all the aforementioned categories. He continues to evolve and stretch his style, approach and capabilities.
The French motion graphics designer who calls himself Gkaster has updated his reel and website with some new examples of his craft. It’s bright, flashy, techy and sexy.
It might date back a few months but it is still fun to watch Fluorescent Hill get crazy for the single “Spacious Thoughts” N.A.S.A. featuring the musical talents of Kool Keith and Tom Waits.
Carl Burgess has released an updated website and portfolio of his work under the name More Soon. It is sublimely strange with some real moments of genuine brilliance in his work. Pick through and be click happy because behind each thumbnail is a treasure trove of divine strangeness. Yes indeed. Very strange.
Talented motion designer Nando Costa uploaded a new reel for 2010 a couple of days ago. You can now also view his complete body of work at archive.nandocosta.com.
Kenichi Tanaka completed this amazing motion graphics piece highlighting some of the unique features of his home country Japan. He says his objective was to remind his fellow countrymen that all that is happening in Japan isn’t necessarily normal.
“1925 (aka Hell) is one of two animation loops directed by Max Hattler, inspired by the work of French outsider artist Augustin Lesage. 1925 is based on Lesage’s painting ‘A symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World’ from 1925.”
This is the promised followup to 1923 (aka Heaven) by Max Hattler several weeks back. Both films were created over the course of 5 days in February of 2010 with students at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark.
