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The Film Group

A new name and new face for the commercial production scene in Vancouver, Canada. Produced by the talented crew at Burnkit.

My good buddy Miguel climbs out of a cave and relaunches argumentativa after 3 some-odd years. He’s also currently available for all of your doodly freelance needs.

Montreal based FRAME has many projects on the stove and is looking for freelance talent from all spheres of specialty in animation and compositing to complement the team on a per project basis. If you’re interested: we want to see your reel ! Send us an email at info@framestudio.tv.

We aim to operate an ethical business in visual communications by offering products and services that provide value for money. Ryan Waller updates with some great new work.

COLLIDER : DIGITALISM

A pair of gold sneakers, 2 band members, 10 girls, 50 instruments, 4 strobes and 2 days in a room in Paris that smelt like a gymnasium by the 100th rotation; the video for Pogo by German duo Digitalism … lots of great new work up on Collider’s site. Also check out Mirrorball Intro.

SHILO : WE MAKE IT GOOD

Shilo have launched their first book, We Make it Good, featuring work the company has created over the years as well as projects specifically for the book. Take a sneak peek at one of the four original films that is featured on the DVD,entitled “City of Good“.

Some impressive photography from award winning Photographer/Director Andrew Zuckerman.

NEUE METHOD: FINAL UPDATE

After 4 years of updates since Neue Method had been conceived i have finally decided to call it quits and start something completely new Ryan Massiah that would focus heavily with motion graphics / broadcast design. Until then, please enjoy the latest and last update over at Neue Method.

Containing new work created while working with the much talented group over at Exopolis in Los Angeles for the last 7 months and a variety of freelance projects completed in late 2006.

IMAGINARY FORCES : MAD MEN

Imaginary Forces created this dreamlike opening title sequence and logo for AMC’s Mad Men, a series set in the world of Madison Avenue ad agencies in the 1960s and centers around the dichotomy of its main characters, all of whom play key roles at the agency. The men balance a work life characterized by the freewheeling social mores of the times, while at home they play the roles of dedicated husbands and fathers.

STARDUST : FUEL TV

Stardust’s latest Signature Series ID for Fuel TV, featuring the work of Cardboard Robot, and art collective led by Mason Brown. To get the desired look for the original footage in-camera, three different cameras were used; an antique 1929 DeVry hand-crank 35mm (with 5205 250 daylight film), a Bolex Super 16mm (7205 daylight film) and a Panasonic P2 HD.

JOE COLE : LIGHT BULB

A part of the recent Live Earth event, Joe Cole’s ‘Light Bulb’, executive produced by Rock Fight is a green-friendly comedic long form guide to using energy-efficient bulbs. The film was part of a series of shorts for the Live Earth event that was broadcasted on television, online, and across installations and festivals around the globe

KROMOTION MAGAZINE

The thrid issue of Kromag is available as a free download in .pdf in French/English. Some great content here including interviews with Supralude, Colourmovie, Renascent and nobrain.

METHOD : MILLER LITE

Method studios recently collaborated with Crispin Porter & Bogusky, Director Zack Snyder and motion capture giants House of Moves on this effects driver 60 sec spot for Miller Lite. 1200 people were used to create the giant, “… the choreography is really being conducted on a macro scale … we had to create a whole new pipeline in shich we used Massive for all the dynamics, and Autodesk Maya to set up our shots.” Custom software was written to feed data from Maya to Massive and back again. Also in the toolbox: Flame, Sitex Graphics, Apple Shake and of course AE.

Doug Alves updates Nacionale with a bunch of new work. Stellar as always.

JUSTIN DAMER

My friend & colleague Justin Damer does some mighty fine work. Nicely done.

BRAND NU: UPDATES

Radim updates Brand Nu with 45 new projects including the illustration above… bloody awesome and very rich in color.

SANTA MARIA : SONY ~ DON’T WALK ALONE

Santa Maria rocked out this spot with Huma Huma for Sony’s ‘Don’t Walk Alone‘ campaign which takes to guerrilla-type tactics in Paris via projected wall animations, in-all, promoting Sony’s Walkman.

FALLON : SONY ~ PHOTOHEADS

Fallon and Stink produced these new spots, continuing the “You are what you shoot” campaign for Sony’s T100 Cybershot. (via Best Ads on TV).

THE WORK AND STORIES OF CHI MODU

“As soon as I touched a camera I knew it was for me. Started bangin around at newspapers in the city, free newspapers, and I got a job at the Amsterdam News shooting pictures where I was getting paid $15 a photo and a roll of film cost me $8, processing was $7 subway tokens total were $4 so I didn’t make much money. But I was a photographer.”

In a unique collaboration of filmmakers and ad-industry veterans from multiple disciplines, the work and stories of photographer Chi Modu will be showcased in an upcoming film project. As the Director of Photography at The Source magazine, Modu experienced the launch of rap and the hip-hop movement first-hand. His photographs have graced countless magazine and album covers and the film tells the story behind the images of the artists that helped shape our popular culture. In the film, shots of Snoop Dogg, NWA, Tupac, Biggie, Puffy light the screen while Modu adds depth and dimension to the experience, using imagery, stories, and music.

Currently an eight-minute short that will be made into full feature, the film is directed by Albert Maysles of Maysles Films and edited by Michael Saia of jumP. The project chronicles the explosion of a musical genre and the photographer who captured that movement. Chi delivers a voice to his photography, adding another sensory dimension to the story of how hip-hop became entrenched in popular culture.

IMAGINARY FORCES : SPIKE TV

Imaginary Forces created this broadcast ID package for Spike TV, presenting the cable networks’ predominantly male viewers with a rapid-fire succession of images culled straight from the manly world of fast cars, blazing guns, beautiful women and furious fists.

BOS TORONTO : MAC’S WTF?

Probably the weirdest Mac’s commercials for the weirdest Mac’s product. BOS Toronto created these spots for Mac’s new slushy called WTF? (check out Hose Leg).

The Soul Surfer, Mauricio Pommella works !

^ BUMP ^ : VERSION2 – AICP OPEN

(Twenty one titles added : watch Open, Animation, Art Direction, Campaign, Cinematography, Copywriting, Editorial, Graphic Design, Humor, International, Low Budget, Musical Arrangement, Next, Original Music, Performance Dialog, Production, Production Design, PSA, Single Commercial, Sound Design, Visual Effects and Visual Style).

Version2 ceated a fantastic animated opening title reminiscent of surreal artists Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte, as well as event installations and DVD packaging for the 2007 AICP show held June 5th at the MoMA, NYC. ‘The environments were primarily digital matte paintings, created in Photoshop and then imported into Autodesk Inferno … The 3D was created in both Cinema 4D and Maya and combined with numerous 2D After Effects elements. To create depth on the foreground objects, everything was projected in Inferno onto 3D geometry.’

Bert Spangemacher Photography: fashion and portrait … slick new site from the crew at Rootylicious