Just clapped eyes on this music video for The Dead Pirates track, Wood, directed by mcbess&Simon and produced by The Mill.
mcbess, whose real name is Matthieu Bessudo, did not simply co-direct this animated promo with fellow director at The Mill Simon Landrein – he wrote and recorded the track under The Dead Pirates moniker, and he also provided the illustrations for the video too. A talented man indeed. Bravo!
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This charming stop motion animation is by director Chris Gavin. Using only a retro signage board and a set of plastic letters, Gavin has conjured up an epic jungle adventure…
Hombre.Cosa from Buenos Aires has created a fluorotastic series of idents for MTV electropop show 10+Pedidos
The idents, as befitting such a show are very much in the Super Super, bright poppy colours, wearing a hoodie from American Apparel vein – here’s the full set
Hombre.cosa is a Buenos Aires based visual lab/studio created in 2008 by Julian Montesano (former Creative Director of Amautalab) and Franco Bittolo (Director of Bitt Animation +VFX).
London-based directing duo Ubik have posted their latest short film, Voxel, up online. It was made for last month’s f5 festival in New York and features rippling water, rain showers and various organic shapes made from 3D pixels
“Our intention from the outset was to make something experimental, technically challenging, slightly ethereal and for reasons we can’t quite remember – they made sense at the time – set in an empty swimming pool,” say Ubik.
The piece was made at the request of Motionographer, the organisers of the f5 festival. “There was no real brief just a few reference words: ‘refresh, renewal, rejuvenation’,” say Ubik.
“We had been playing around with the idea of making a film using 3D pixels, or voxels, where we could describe and animate organic shapes and forms using simple cubes, and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to give it a go.”
Ubik are represented by Not to Scale for commercials and music videos.
Director: Ubik
Concept and visualisation: Ubik, John-Paul Harney
Technical director: John-Paul Harney
Producer: Josephine Gallagher
Executive producer: Daniel O’Rourke
Production assistant: Kelly Ford
Director of photography: Simon Paul
Camera assistants: Geoff Robbins, Sky Sharrock
Stills photography: Robin Brigham, Paul Allen
Colourist: Ben Rogers at Glassworks
Technical support: Luke Allen
Soundtrack: A Drifting Up by Jon Hopkins from the album Insides, courtesy of Double Six Records, Domino Records
Just came across YouTube user Kaflickastan‘s masterful re-cut of 80s favourite Dirty Dancing, whereby he’s constructed a new trailer for the film as if directed by David Lynch. As with our post on the Diff’rent Strokes titles, the music has an important part to play here too…
Worth clicking on HQ for the better quality version.
In our final interview with this year’s D&AD awards judges, Eliza Williams talks to Big Spaceship‘s Michael Lebowitz, the foreman of the Viral jury. Lebowitz discusses the semantics of the term “viral”, the evolution of the digital industry and the fact that, while still in its infancy, there’s already a sense of maturity emerging within the field…
In our fourth interview with this year’s D&AD awards judges, Eliza Williams talks to James Frost of the Music Videos jury. Frost, who created Radiohead’s stunning House of Cards promo, discusses the standard of work entered this year, how the economic climate has affected production budgets, and the reaction he’s had to that video…
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