This quirky stop-motion animation is a segment from artist Rob Carter’s video Metropolis which chronicles the evolution of the city of Charlotte in North Carolina. The full version is being screened at New York’s Museum of Art and Design.
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Animation
UGBOT, aka Gavin Edwards, is an illustrator with a strange imagination and a real talent with vector-based doodles. On browsing through his website one gets the impression that everything is in some way linked to a grand narrative that you will never truly comprehend (a bit like star-wars but more bubbly).
That said, his chock-a-block website is proof that ignorance can be bliss.
Stirling Headboard and Frangk Sedgewick, repectively manager and lead singer of ‘Shattered Illusions’.
In ‘98, aged just 14, aspiring cartoonist Amir Avni wrote to his then hero and creator of the brilliant (if nightmare-inducing) Ren and Stimpy, John Kricfalusi. Above is one page of the extraordinary reply he got from the great animator, the rest of which can be read here. So inspirational was it that Amir, currently in his fourth year of studying animation, is rather good himself.
Skills like these should never die or become irrelevant in a digital age so it’s encouraging that there are still those willing to devote themselves to them. And if it means our children grow up watching beautifully rendered masochistic pets break each other, so be it.
Martin deserved a shout for this video months ago - and really we should have been the ones to do it first as it was a joint decision between us at ShellsuitZombie and Adrian Shaugnessy to award him Best in New Blood for it in July. However, as often happens, it got lost in the mist of time so here it is now.
Yes it’s 14 minutes long, but yes, it is also interesting and rocks an epic beat. Worth a watch.
Carlos Garde-Martin is an illustrator who also likes to make games. Try ‘Two of a kind’, a pairs-style format which also cunningly shows off some of his nice line and fill work. The Tits and Ass print he recently submitted to threadless can be seen above - my favourite character is definitely the ‘I don’t give a shit, I’m on the T of the tit’ moon.
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Visit Ben’s site here for much more work (Lovely print stuff, not just headache-inducing nightmaregifs.)
This is the response to the D&AD HP invent brief by two Kinston grads Tom and Matt, who took 6 weeks and 8 printers to make it (using HD video sped up 9000%). If you don’t love it you’re an idiot (subjectivity shmubjectiviy). By the way Kingston also deserve nuff tings for having an AWESOME New Blood stand…bastards.
4 artists working together on a single canvas to create engaging images and scenes which evolve into each other while Beethoven tinkles the ivories in the background. Between each painted scene are often periods of limbo where the artists obviously aren’t on the same page and ghosts of ideas appear briefly before they eventually reach a shared vision. A bit of a refreshing change from the standard photorealistic sketches of Angelina Jolie that populate youtube…
Our roundup of the ShellsuitZombie experience at New Blood is finally here. Offering a mixture of chat, live briefs, loud music, ‘itsa-bitsa’ style artwork creation and general stick-it-anywhere-we-aren’t-precious tomfoolery (oh-err) we managed to attract graduates and industry in their hundreds to our messy corner of the Kensington Olympia (helped by D&AD generously allowing us free air-time on the tannoy - apologies to anyone we disturbed). We collected cards, friends and email addresses in scenes akin to Bruce Bogtrotter and Augustus Gloop at a chocolate convention, met loads of you, got your opinions on us and the industry and had a hell of a lot of fun at the same time. There are some photos here, to see them all visit our Flickr and Facebook pages.
ShellsuitZombie Face-Offs
We held two official SSZ Faceoffs, the first was a two-way between Falmouth University and Staffs University advertising courses. In an atmosphere more ‘intense’ than a music festival (in tents…doesn’t matter) during which we had to hold back both teams from physical blows, the brief was set - come up with a 30 second advert for Lucozade. While the relative merits of the adverts are still being discussed by creative directors worldwide, on the day Staffs were declared victorious by public vote for their ‘joe bloggs beats Usain Bolt’ concept.
The second face-off was a four-way between Duncan of Jordanstone, Lincoln, DMU and the eventual Victors Nottingham Trent, all of whom were given half an hour to rebrand D&AD. For the judging not only did we have Matt Dent, recent (and youngest ever) black pencil winner for his coinage redesign, but a curiously phallic clap-ometer which induced giggles (from us at least).
The ShellsuitZombie Picnic
Our biggest event consisted of a free-for-all overnight brief to devise a campaign for a household cleaner - utilising any form of media necessary. As you can see we had nearly a hundred people taking part in 25 submissions - of which two teams were chosen for placements at BCL - a fantastic integrated agency responsible for Dove Natural Beauty and the current Lucozade Energy campaign. Reports on how they got on will follow. Thank you to everyone that did some work for this, the standard was very high.
Pecha Kucha
To top it all off, on wednesday they let us do a Pecha-Kucha, God knows why. Here is one of our slides, all of which were created in Microsoft Paint. Again, to see the rest have a look on our Flickr page. If anyone has pics of us doing it please let us know, we have none.
So Basically
We had an awesome time, we hope you enjoyed it too. Anyone who posted us your card, email address etc and hasn’t heard anything back, bear with us, you’ll be the first to know when we announce future events, and we will feature as many of you as we can over the next couple of months.
Thanks to:
Morph are a great digital agency from Shoreditch, London, who kindly sponsored the stand and print - Coming soon, a filmed interview and article with Anthony. Eyes Peeled.
Brave - Representing BCL who offered support and time, delivering a brilliant brief and giving opportunities to nearly a hundred grads through our stand at the event.
Rob graduated in 2006 and has since been building up an impressive array of animation/moving image work which, being quicktime, I can’t put on the site. Pity, because his showreel is proper bo, including some work for the SyFy brand (see below)
In fact, check out Rob’s website for simplicity marrying (and living happily ever after with) originality - We especially like the work being split into RGB and CMYK, although you can tell within seconds where Rob’s heart lies.
If you get hot over idents, be prepared to cross your legs and hope the boss/girlfriend/mum doesn’t see. Cue the latest offering from ManvsMachine, the new identity for the Sci-Fi channel, now rebranded ‘SyFy’ See the full project here.
Fwd_ctrl. a team of 5 Loughborough design graduates, has produced this super showreel - some very slick production backing up a host of clever ideas, which fingers crossed will set them in good stead for the big push over the summer.
In a cunning move, you can also sign up to their podcast channel here - just for a change from ricky, adam and joe.
A graduate of Salford University back in 2006, Rob has mustered an impressive list of both freelance and full-time work including this slick visual dream for Atari. I love the way he categorizes his work as either RGB or CMYK, lovely stuff.
Gaspar AKA Marcello Velho just let us know about his new website and I felt compelled to post it purely because it’s WAY BIGGER THAN A WEBSITE EVER SHOULD BE…which ROCKS. Plus it has a bunch of nutty animated gifs with naughty words in, speaking to my childish sensibilities. Hey, who said journalism had to be clever.
