Saturday, February 25, 2012

Some of my most favourite animated videos :)

So last week I stumbled across this video entitled "A Year of Sun with Mr. Persol", produced by Passion Pictures for Persol. SO lovely!





PRODUCTION Passion Pictures // passion-pictures.com
DIRECTED BY Kevin Dart // kevindart.com // Stéphane Coëdel // vimeo.com/steffromuk
PRODUCER Ryan Goodwin-Smith // ryan.gs
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Jen Coatsworth
DESIGNERS Kevin Dart // Chris Turnham // christurnham.com
ANIMATORS Jérémy Pires // vimeo.com/jeremypires // Nelson Boles // vimeo.com/nelsonboles // Nick Appleton
ANIMATION ASSISTANT Mariano Melman
COMPOSITING Stéphane Coëdel // Celine Desrumaux // groovythesushi.blogspot.com
EDITING Stéphane Coëdel
STORY Kevin Dart // Stéphane Coëdel // Elizabeth Ito // kikutowne.com // Chris Mitchell // jinzoningen.blogspot.com/
SOUND AND MUSIC Dave Newby // vimeo.com/dnewby
AGENCY Winkreative, London, UK // winkreative.com
CREATIVE DIRETOR Tyler Brûlé
DESIGN DIRECTOR Maurus Fraser
ART DIRECTOR Silke Klinnert
ACCOUNT MANAGER Ariane Elfen 
COPYWRITER Matthew Temple 
PRODUCER Julie Thyman

And also happened to stumble across the animated adaptation of Oliver Jeffers' Lost and Found book.




ADAPTED AND DIRECTED by STUDIO AKA's Philip Hunt
BASED ON Oliver Jeffers' award winning children's picture book, "Lost and Found"
NARRATION by the great Jim Broadbent
SCORE by composer Max Richter 

Available on Amazon UK, PLAY UK & iTunes UK



And last but not least, I love this opening title sequence for "Catch Me If You Can" discovered via Art of the Title. Inspired by the amazing designer Saul Bass and the 60's, in which the movie is set, Paris-based Olivier Kuntzel and Florence Deygas created this winner of an opening sequence.





Read more about their process of making the animation here.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

CE Design Contest II


So lately I've been very busy on my entry for the CE Design Contest II. Basically the competition called for designers to design a vinyl toy, blister pack and a t-shirt. It's not often that you come across such an amazing brief - so I had a lot of fun dreaming up ideas!


This is Trilby. He's a tiger in the circus who has both a fondness for collecting medals, as well as wearing them. Perhaps he likes to wear so many medals because he thinks they give him a false sense of status. Possibly a kleptomaniac.


Scamp of the blister pack. I'm quite a Type A person, so I like to draw up more or less what I'm thinking of doing. On the blister pack we're introduced to some of Trilby's friends in the circus.


And here's the scamp brought to life!





Some detail shots.


Design for the t-shirt.


And here's my entry! South Africa represent!

My sister also did an AMAZING entry for the competition - you can check hers out here and here!

UPDATE:

Made the top 95 finalists, but unfortunately didn't place in the top 5 international designers :) Congrats to all the finalists!!