11 posts tagged “motion graphics”
Creative Crackdown, Sheima Hassanlou
Sheima Hassanlou, freelance motion graphics designer who sometimes edits and sometimes does print (her words), sent us her new portfolio site to review. But we thought we’d toss it out to the rest of you Egotists to analyze and provide feedback.
Some of our friends from the outside will also be chiming in on the work – a team from Tequila, LA, TBWA\Chiat\Day’s in-house interactive arm and a team from McCann Erickson, NY. We’ve also lined up two new teams from Creature, Seattle and an editorial team from Chrome, Santa Monica.
Sheima was educated at CU in Boulder and at Crispin Porter + Bogusky as an intern. Did it stick?
Check out her site. Then check back in and let her know.
My new site is up for review by the Denver creative community. Some of my uber-talented friends have been ripped to shreds on this site, and now my work is up for debate.
You can check me out takin' a licking from these foolios.
Yup. Now ya heard.
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TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO UNVEIL MY NEW PORTFOLIO SITE.
WELCOME TO ::ROCK:IT::DON'T:STOP:IT::
Please feel free to pass along the site to anyone you know that's awesome and has a lot of money to throw my way in exchange for creating random things on this MacBook Pro.
And do it quickly. Otherwise I'm gonna give cage dancing a try.
Thank you for your time.
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This is Deep Purple, a band I really have never remembered listening to in my lifetime, but some of you may have. Anyway, I found this video to be pretty rocktastic because it was made way before Adobe After Effects was even created!
>>After Effects was originally created by the Company of Science and Art in Providence, RI, USA. Version 1.0 was released in January 1993. Version 2.1 introduced PowerPC acceleration in 1994. CoSA along with After Effects was then acquired by Aldus corporation in July 1993; this company was then acquired by Adobe in 1994, and with it PageMaker and After Effects. Adobe's first new release of After Effects was version 3.0. <<
So, someone tell me how they did all these effects? Maybe I should know this, but you know, I haven't made time to read the history of motion graphics...is there even a book on this? I bet I have one in my library...
I know a bunch of people are gonna give me mad shit for posting this and asking such dumb questions.
Whateva to yo howeva.
Happiness Factory: Psyop 'Sold' for $30 Million
Fortissimo Acquisition Corporation nabs VFX studio for cash and stock; Psyop to open Israel-based R&D lab.
Psyop, the New York-based VFX and animation studio responsible for spots like Coca-Cola's "Happiness Factory" has merged with an Israeli-based acquisitions company for $10 million in cash and $20 million in stock.
Based on the agreement, executive producer Justin Booth-Clibborn becomes CEO of the new venture, which could get an additional $14 million in cash and stock if performance goals are reached over the next three years. Representatives from Psyop declined to comment.
The deal is essentially a merger with a company that's already public. Fortissimo is a Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation, or SPAC, a company set up so general shareholders can function like private equity firms and offer IPO-like deals to companies of their choosing.
The terms of Fortissimo's 2005 formation require a business partner, if not located in Israel, to establish a presence there. As a result, Psyop will open an R&D facility in Israel focused on creating software and tools. According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, when the deal is done in June, Fortissimo will be renamed Psyop and attempt to have its shares listed on Nasdaq.
Psyop was founded in 2000 by Eben Mears, Marie Hyon, Marco Spier, Kylie Matulick and Todd Mueller, and has spawned Blacklist, a company supporting younger content producers. The firm reported an audited revenue of $15.8 million in 2006.
This is dedicated to all my freelance designer friends [without health insurance].
You know who you are.
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I just had a "DUH" moment. I'm supposedly a motion graphics designer by trade, but I haven't showcased any motion work in months. That's retarded.
I haven't worked on any motion projects in a couple months. Let's not discuss this. It makes me feel quite anxious.
A few years ago, I had the good fortune to see Kevin Carroll from Nike speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His position with Nike is "Katalyst" [basically responsible for revving up creative types that are feeling uninspired and dull]. He said that creative people, like athletes, need to refuel with Gatorade. This Gatorade he discussed is not the actual drink, but the inspiration that comes from the outside to infuse the inside.
Get it?
Here's some Gatorade. I know I can sure use the fill-up.
JUNO opening titles by ShadowPlay Studio
What does this mean for the viewer?
It means an onslaught of Hershey's ads taunting me after my grueling workout.
Check out this Reese's ad. Totally makes me smile. Simple. Clean. Direct. Straightforward cuts. Ridiculous.
THIS IS THE STUFF COMMERCIALS ARE MADE OF.
wow.
Now that's pretty impressive for someone that's as severe a multi-tasker as I.
enjoi.
Ohhhhh yeah, you can check out a spot directed by the highly acclaimed Martin Scorsese for Freixenet while you're at it.
Ankle Injuries features dice as the main executional element, the same way legos were used in the White Stripes video "Fell in Love with a Girl". May I mention, it is made use of niiiicely. Just check it out and see for yourself.
HERE'S SOME WIKI ACTION FOR YA:
Fujiya & Miyagi are an English band formed in Brighton in 2000. They are currently signed to Tirk Records in the United Kingdom. They are self-described (erroneously) as being heavily influenced by 70's Krautrock bands such as Can and Neu! as well as early-90's electronica artists like Aphex Twin. The origins of the band's name come from a character in the movie The Karate Kid as well as the brand of a record player [1].
The first several years after the band's formation were spent in relative obscurity; however, they began to see a drastic spike in popularity between 2003 and 2006 thanks in large part to very favorable reviews from prominent music publications such as NME and Pitchfork Media. They were also the subject of an episode of the MTV2 documentary series This Is Our Music in 2006. The song "Collarbone" is featured in Jaguar's 2007 "Gorgeous" advert campaign.
The story of how they met and formed the band variously reports a mutual hero-worship of world heavyweight wrestler Kendo Nagasaki, and a shared interest in krautrock and early-nineties electronica discovered while warming the subs bench during Sunday league football.
