Here is the Japanese version of my film Please Say Something.
I made this with the translation help of Nobuaki Doi.
NEWS! I’m heading to TOKYO in a few weeks to speak at the Graphic Passport conference, tickets available HERE. Ill be in Japan for a couple of weeks doing other stuff, really looking forward!
My good friend Jon Klassen came over to Berlin in October. We decided to make a small video, we sketched out some ideas, Jon did some designs and I took it from there.
The result is this 2 minute video loop which doesn’t really fit into any category except here, online, right now, this very second, for you and you alone.
Note: if you head over to the vimeo version there’s a loop feature if you right click over it…
Those of you in London: this is showing at the “A Foundation Gallery” at Rochelle School, London E2 7ES. It’s a show dedicated to collaboration stuff. Details Here.
edit: Wow, thank you Cartoon Brew, Motionographer & Shape&Colour
Jon is currently exploring the American wilderness (really) but we will probably put some development work from this project when he gets back.
I just directed U2‘s latest music video for the song “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight”. It can be seen below or by clicking on the following link.
The video has been given an exclusive premiere on Youtube.com, taking over the front page in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the US. If you’re not based in those countries it should be viewable very soon!
The video is now viewable in HD on my Vimeo page here.
Credits: Directed & Characters Designed by David OReilly. Art Direction, Production Design, Concept art by Jon Klassen. Animation & Rigging by Chris Hutchison and Daniell Brown, with extra animation by Steve White. The video was produced by Colonel Blimp and made at Lumiere Studios in London.
Here are some stage visuals I recently did for M.I.A. The deadline for this was extremely tight, everything was done in a few days in preparation for her Coachella gig last weekend.
Here was the first test I did before any brief, it wasn’t used in the end but it’s my personal favourite. You can view this with red/cyan glasses, the gun’s distortion is in true 3d space.
This is a composite of some of the other ones I did, more in line with M.I.A’s aesthetic. (unfortunately compression kind of kills the flat colors/strobe effects). Since these were rendered in extreme widescreen I compressed them both into one video. The left audio channel is for the song “World Town” and the right the final version of “Bang”. Listen to them separately with headphones.
Here is my sequence for the PSST!3 project, part of an animation with Chris Harding of Shynola & David Shrigley, the full film can be seen here. This features the head of Walt Disney, which can still be downloaded here.
DENMARK
Thank you again to everyone who came to my talks at Lynfabrikken and Republikken in Denmark, and especially to Lasse Schuleit for setting it all up. Both places are totally amazing workspaces for creative people, I wish there was an equivalent in Berlin or London.
Here it is, my latest and greatest short film Please Say Something! Winner of the Golden Bear for best short film at the 2009 Berlinale.
*DVD in the works, many extras & other shorts included, drop me a mail for notification. Should be ready next week*
I worked hard to make this free online, so pass it around to everyone you know and if you have a blog, embed it. Embed it several times over! The downside of making it free is that some festivals will no longer value it and certain channels wont buy it, and the only real way of making up for that is to spread it far and wide. Help prove that the web as a distribution model for animation works!
The film is under exclusive distribution by Future Shorts, proudly being the first ever HD film on their channel.
*update: feature on BoingBoing!
*update 2: comments are enabled for the first time on this blog.
*update 3: youtube seems to wash out the colors/subtitles, check the vimeo instead
*update 4: feature on Motionographer
