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Concept art studio Sixmorevodka (the brainchild of Marko and Jelena Djurdjevic) have released their fall portfolio as a downloadable PDF showcasing their work for the likes of Marvel, Massive Black, Capcom, Legendary Pictures and more. Simply amazing stuff. View/Download the PDF. (15MB)
Kanye West makes his directorial debut with this 34:33 music video for Runaway
Railways are the lifeblood for any economy, and Believe Media‘s Gerard de Thame, in collaboration with Absolute‘s Lead Flame Artist Dirk Greene, illustrate its importance by way of two :30s for global freight transportation leader CSX, via Mullen.
Amsterdam-based agency They asked PostPanic Directors’ Mischa Rozema and Chris Staves, to work with them on developing a visually unique and memorable introduction to Vodafone’s Business website. This introduction would need to adapt every few months as new product themes are promoted by Vodafone.
Mischa and Chris’s solution was to use a mixture of live action and photo realistic 3d to create a magnetically-driven transforming entity, presented as an art installation and composed of
hundreds of mobile telephone, laptops, PDAs and smart phones. New product themes are adopted by the ever-changing entity which then forms to create a symbol communicating the
theme. This first clock theme reflects the products developed by Vodafone to help the work: life balance. The imagery projected on the entity is created from all the equipment screens working as a whole, almost like the scales of a reptile. A library of images and individual motion design stories following a carefully chosen graphic palette, were produced to insert in the numerous screens to further convey product theme characteristics. Although the main purpose of the film is as an online introduction, content has also been adapted by PostPanic to create print visuals and a television commercial for broadcast in Benelux.
Recently announced in New York from the Guggenheim Museum, Steve Scott’s ‘Parachute Endings’ for Birdy Nam Nam (sixty shots created in one month, created by Not To Scale‘s Steve Scott) will be shown at Guggenheim Museums around the globe (New York, Bilbao, Berlin, Venice & Abu Dhabi) as part of YouTube Play, a collaboration between YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum, presented by HP and Intel. The inaugural biennial showcases the most remarkable online videos from around the world. The biannual celebration is a call to the global YouTube community to submit innovative online videos that will capture the imaginations of viewers all over the world.
Illustrated by Will Sweeney and Directed by Steve Scott.
Toxic.no recently completed this title sequence for the innovative electronic music Insomnia Festival 2010, held in Tromsø, Norway between the 15th and 24th of October.
Anonymous Content‘s Directorial duo Purchase Brothers, working via Crispin Porter & Bogusky, are amping snowsports fans up for the coming winter with a :30 web film promoting Vail Resorts’ new product, EpicMix, an online and mobile app that captures a skier or snowboarder’s lift rides and vertical feet on the mountain all season long.
Toronto based Drastic‘s latest project: Music and Sound design for Animatrix.
new integrated campaign from Agency goodness Mfg and Blur Studios for LucasArts‘ The Force Unleashed II video game. The highly anticipated title will be released Oct. 26th.
The Force Unleashed II continues the story of Starkiller, Darth Vader’s secret apprentice gone rogue who will stop at nothing to save his one true love, Juno Eclipse. The print includes originally designed environments, with iconic characters experiencing massive Force powers Unleashed upon them. The campaign features the contagious Unleashed vernacular, Starkiller’s arsenal of powerful Unleashed moves and an environment cast in a hauntingly atmospheric blue color palate.
Greg “Craola” Simkins is an L.A based illustrator/painter, recently creating this cover for the latest Juxtapoz Magazine. Gallery1988 (7020 Melrose Avenue, L.A) will be hosting Greg’s “Story Teller” Solo Exhibit, starting Friday Nov. 5th. Plenty creative talent to see on his site: ImScared.com
Dutch creative production studio +1 Amsterdam launched a new site as well as plenty of new work including this tailor made opening for the IdN DVD enclosed with issue v17n5 (October/November 2010). “During the shoot we used four photo camera’s (tethered shooting) and a regular HD video camera. We shot about 40 hours of footage for an edit of 15 seconds.”
Meet the NY crew that makes up FirstBorn.
Working with This is Pacifica, designer/director Lisbon based Filipe Carvalho created these opening titles for AGI Open 2010.
The SHOWstudio.com Shop is offering a unique preview of Gareth Pugh‘s S/S 2011 collection – a silk-chiffon scarf featuring a key monochrome graphic print from the collection. A limited edition run of just 100 piece are only be available to purchase through the SHOWstudio.com Shop, a full six months before Pugh’s collection will appear in shops worldwide.
Director: Ruth Hogben
Production : Gainsbury and Whiting … check out their Kate Moss 3D piece for Another Magazine.
Music Direction: Matthew Stone