Eggman’s Entry for the Moby Video Competition

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Groverfield by Artifex Studios

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Journey 3D, FX Artists of Former Meteor Studios seeking $1 Million in Back Pay

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Bitfilm winner: Our wonderful nature by Tomer Eshed

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Silly-Thing creates a Tron-ish music video for Juno Mak and Softhard

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W+K Portland tapped the prodigious powers of Smith&Foulkes (Nexus Productions) for this lively Coke spot starring Yao Ming and LeBron James. It’s a battle royale of East versus West, with each player bringing an army of cultural icons to his aid.

As with most of S&F’s work, the beauty is in the details, and this one deserves some frame-by-frame attention. From the baroque symmetry of the compositions to the architectural elements in the background, no pixel was left untouched.

Oh, and I love the confetti transition to live action at the end. It’s simple, seamless and effective.

Client Coca-Cola

W+K Portland
Creative Directors Hal Curtis, Sheena Brady
Copywriter Dylan Lee
Art Director Mira Kaddoura
Account team Ryan Peterson
Producer Kevin Diller
Agency Business Affairs Teresa Lutz

Production Company Nexus
Director Smith & Foulkes
Executive Producer Julia Parfitt
Producer Melody Sylvester
Editor
Post-Production company
Audio Post-Prod. company Digital One

Effects
Color Correction
Titles/Graphics
Talent

Music Eclectic
Executive producer Cliff Wilson

Sound Design Eclectic
Producer Cliff Wilson

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Fubiz is in English now!

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Currently doing the rounds in the UK is this quirky advert and print campaign for Vodafone. Creative agency BBH employed the talents of one of my favourite illustrators Adrian Johnson (be sure to check out his work out!), whilst the animation side was handled by South African based, Tennant. I really enjoy the simplicity of Adrian’s characters and the colour pallet he uses. Tennant did a really great job of bringing the characters to life, especially considering the entire turn around was a little over 3 weeks!

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Digital Media Artists / LA Meeting Tonight!

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Advanced Beauty is now available as a weekly podcast (link will open in iTunes). We’ve been following Advanced Beauty with great enthusiasm here on Motionographer for a while, but for the uninitiated, I decided to ask the project’s founder and co-curator, Matt Pyke (of Universal Everything) a few questions about it.

What is Advanced Beauty?

Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound, an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects.

The first collection is a series of audio-reactive ‘video sound sculptures’. Inspired by synasthesia, the rare, sensory experience of seeing sound or tasting colours, these videos are physical manifestations of sound, sculpted by volume, pitch or structure of the soundtrack.

The films embrace unusual video making processes, the visual programming language Processing, high-end audio analysis and fluid dynamic simulations alongside intuitive responses in traditional cell animation. Each artist was given the same set of parameters to work within; to start, finish and exist within a white space, creating a seamless coherence, all sculptures sharing the same white environment.

Using 1920 HD format, with 5:1 surround sound, the films transform the screen into a digital canvas, how the minimalism of a single, floating pixel can be as engaging as the maximalism of an intense multicoloured explosion.

Curated by Universal Everything and musician Freeform, Advanced Beauty is an international collaboration, taking in a family of artists from London, Russia, New York, Japan, Buenos Aires, Glasgow to San Francisco.

This collection of films in the first in a series of exhibitions, with upcoming commissions for the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and galleries in Europe, USA and Japan.

Where did you get the idea for Advanced Beauty?

It was a desire for me (ex record sleeve designer) and simon pyke (ex album maker),
to create a new form of audio-visual expression. I love very minimalist film as the antithesis to the MTV maximalism, and wanted to see how still, pure, sculptural and physical sound could become on screen.

Why are you releasing the films as a podcast?

We have a Blu-Ray DVD coming in Winter 2008, but we are wanting to push these video sound sculptures out there, to promote our collaborators and to establish an unfolding understanding of what we are doing.

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