A Touching Application by Working Title

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We had a chance to speak with Russian designers from "Bureau Working Title" that did a commercial short "A Touching Application" using no 3D software, only projection mapping, modeling and classic animation. The ad shows advantages of Russian navigation application published by Yandex Ltd.

DC: What is the main plot of this advertisiment? The touching story tells us about two sentimental creatures from some outer world; nevertheless, they seem to be a lot like humans. As the two plan their date in a telephone conversation, they decide to meet up in a planetarium. From now on, they get any information from a mobile map application, which tells them the best routes, timing and any other – that's important – interactive tips. They face random barriers on their way: she gets stuck in a traffic jam, he forgets to buy her flowers and so on. The application helps them to finally meet each other on a crossroad and make their way to the planetarium "using" the "street view" option. We see them as they watch the stars leaning towards each other. The story ends up with a slogan: "A touching application".

What was the largest challenge in producing and directing the project? The hardest was to deal with time which passed so slowly. Classic animation process requires a lot of patience, and the more patient you are, the more satisfaction you get when the work is done. But russian advertising is always about tough deadlines, so you have to make it really quick. Thanks to the professionals who helped us getting the shootings done in its best ways and shared their skills with us. Furthermore, it was a great challenge to combine various techniques: stop-motion animation with dummies, iPad-freezelight, 3D projection mapping and a little bit of computer graphics.

How long did it take you to complete the whole project? Making of all the stage requisites, creating the script, directing everything to its sterile fancy looks, shooting till the final cut – the whole process took us about 1,5 months to get done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcISIVoSZGQ

Credits:

Concept, script, production: Бюро "Рабочее название" (Bureau Working title) www.workingtitle.ru Director, camera: Ivan Proskuryakov Light: Pavel Ukhanov Animation: Alla Solov'eva Projection mapping: Sergey Titov and Sasha Gavrilova (Stain) Dummies: Igor Khilov Stage requisites: Alexey Petrov, Anastasia Zolotilina, Lena Shagieva Freezelight, compositing, CGI: Marina Cherry, Ira Lubomirova Music: DZA (http://soundcloud.com/dza)

Russian Students: Better Harder Stronger Art & Design

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That's not a sponsor post or whatever just because we love to feature awesome achievements of Russian Students. That happens a fifth year in a line Moscow based British High School of Art and Design tear apart the international competitions without fanatic roaring but with a methodical wins of valuable awards. Last year BHSAD Students brought 2 pencils from D&AD competition. This year brought the school 3 Yellow Pencil awards.

1) Integrated Communications - Arina Kiseleva, Kseniya Apresyan http://vimeo.com/44983497

2) Moving Image - Lidia Velles, Yana Mironova, Zhanna Nosova http://vimeo.com/45633490

3) Photography - Michael Skachkov

Also there were 3 Nominations for Anastasia Korosteleva, Ann Khokhlova and a team of Arina Kiseleva, Dima Vtulkin, Olga Terekhova

And 3 "Best of the Year" for Sergey Kleschev, Nina Kazimirova and Zhanna Nosova, and Oleg Pashkovsky, Seslavinskaya Anna, Tim Raiter, Vitaliy Urban

Congratulation goes to the BSHAD School!

Alternative Landscapes by Benoit Paillé

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Captivating outdoor installation made by Benoit Paille for the photography series "Alternative Landscapes"

"This is a photography of light installation (real light, real square 1x1 meter) i set in nature or where during the night you have usually no lightning, I try to redefine the space/landscape for my own purpose: create a poetic space/time moment. And questioning the reality of what is a landscape"

View full series on http://www.flickr.com/photos/benoitpaille/sets/72157628994434029/

via Colossal

Gregory Euclide whiteboard drawings

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All over the world office procrastinators must be jealous after exploring the unique art made by Gregory Euclide on whiteboards with a single black marker and some water. Definitely there is no limit for an artist in materials if he really wants to express himself.

http://vimeo.com/42278456

Rustam Valeev street art

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Motherland Russia has enormous quantity of creative gems spread over the land. Today we found Rustam Valeev's street artworks made with chalks. Speechless, just one white chalk 1% of awesome talent and 99% of painstaking perspiration. For now Rustam has no portfolio website but only a page on Russian social network that blocked in most of countries due to a good reason. Hope to see his personal playground one day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m3VDirO4_8&feature=player_embedded

Kandinsky Type by Sinan Buyukbas

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This is kind of a creep situation when less and less Russian designers calls to national history of art and design in their work (even most of them are fashion designers). The history that literally gave a birth to European and American schools of Design that is developing nowadays. Take a look at amazing research and development of Kandinsky's works that later became a typography study created by Sinan Buyukbas.

More on Behance

Lorena Prain illustration

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Lorena Prain - illustrator based in Madrid works in recognizable manner mixing fashion related illustration with puberty female portraiture what emphasize the fault world of fashion.

"I'm more drawn to the feminine world than the masculine, it's easier for me to express myself through that language"

she says for Dazed Digital in objective interview.

Natalia Fabia art

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Inspired by brash light, vivid color and glitter, and the punk music scene, Natalia Fabia paints photorealistic images of after-hours bars and parties. Her 2010 series “Punk Rock Rainbow Sparkle” was based on staged photo shoots of lingerie-clad girls that captured a raw yet decadent sensibility. The provocatively posed models, many of whom are Fabia’s friends, sport glitter, tattoos, and clunky jewelry, seeming both tough and heartbreakingly vulnerable at the same time. http://www.nataliafabia.com/ via art.sy

Hard Graft

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This is a rare type of post when we feature craftsmen but Hard Graft wins a full attention. The masters of premium italian leather and wool felt knows how to keep all you gadgets and other urban nomad things all together with a modern twist.

Hard Graft is a perfectionist duo - monie.ka and James based in London, UK. They do design and produce sleek objects of desire in Italian workshop called "The Brothers". Stitch to stitch, button to button their products are a real aesthetic heritage available for purchase and delivery right now (pity they don't deliver with DHL or UPS to Russia, and that is a real torment for us).

Olly Low Poly And The Zombie Tower

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Russian motion designer Vladimir Tomin is about to release his first ever video game "Olly Low Poly And The Zombie Tower". It will be available for Mac OS and PC in first release and for iOS in second. After watching the presentation video I have the only words "Olly Low Poly - Holly Macaroni!" it is damn good!

http://vimeo.com/45183619