The Content Experts / OpenText :: A :60s Director’s cut of a 1min 30s film for OpenText describing the vision and purpose of the company … designed and directed by Toronto based Tendril with music & sound design by John Black ~ Cypheraudio.
W+K Tokyo Lab, along with breakbeat duo HIFANA, released a free Iphone App today; Fresh Push Play, is a sound sampler/sequencer/game … a new kind of music app that features 16 pads, and the equipment HIFANA use in their live performances. The app features a socially interactive game where players can simulate HIFANA original songs, giving users complex beat-making by simply tapping buttons.
You most likely saw this video from HIFANA:
An amazing follow-up to the Volkswagon Darth Vader Ad, but this one directed by MJZ’s Dante Ariola with 3d and post by The Mill, both for Deutsch and all for VW. Also check out the Black Beetle Youtube page … much like the previous page takeover done by Nintendo, but here throwing dirt and bugs across the page. Also a great timelapse making-of:
Seattle based Oh, Hello created this trailer for the 2010 Siff festival. Movie references galore throughout one long pan-back.
Vancouver based Production/Design shop and Creative Agency Giant Ant Media have updated with a new reel for 2011, along with about a dozen new interactive and motion projects.
Brooklyn based illustrator Nook has some fantastic work to see: www.raccoonnook.com
Impressive live action performance choreographed to CG projections. Sword Dance and Shadowgraph produced and performed by Taichi Saotome, was a special new year performance taking place last January at the Galaxy Theater Tokyo. Video production by TEAMLAB.
Short Film Teaser – ‘Imaginary Forces’ by Ruairi Robinson.
“We only protect what we love.” WE MISS YOU is a social campaign that deals with our relationship to earth. Our aim is to get people back in touch with nature. Produced and Directed by Fireapple Films, three German film students who lost touch with nature, creating WE MISS YOU is there attempt at rediscovery. www.wemissyou.de
(NSFW) <--- A fake ad, I wonder how long this could possibly stay online. On one hand its a hilarious parody of Skittles commercials but I mean, how long before Skittles sees this? What does this do to the Skittles brand, if anything? I know I never want to eat another Skittle ever again lol!
Bold moves from directors Cousins — www.stepcousins.com (ahem)
Beautiful journey to explore the remote countryside of Iceland by photographers Tim Navis and Kim Høltermand in partnership with Scenic Studio.
Thiago Maia and David Pocull launch Cake, a creative animation, design and live-action studio based in London. Check out the showreel and the site, tasty stuff!
Amsterdam based PostPanic uploaded a whopping 4:25 showreel for 2011. Not sure I’ve ever seen a studio reel that long … tons of great work, some new some old but all good. PostPanic was founded in 1997 and is a Dutch hybrid film production company creating unique visual work for the international advertising, broadcast, retail and music industries.
After over 10 years using photoshop, U.K based illustrator Daniel Mackie abandons it in favor of pencil and watercolour, recently winning ‘Best in Book’ in the Creative Review Illustration Annual 2011. Judge Kuchar Swara says,” i was really impressed with the level of Detail and attention to the figure and it’s distortions of scale…” All Daniel’s illustrations are now hand drawn and painted on 300gsm saunders watercolour paper.
Arizona based, freelance artist, director, illustrator and designer Anthony Hurd updated with new interactive, design and art projects along with a new site.