Wenyi Geng illustrations
Wenyi Geng was born in Japan, grew up in China
Artrium - The Beginning
Artrium is a new space born in Moscow a year ago and you may remember calligraphy artist Pokras Lampas doing his work inside pedestrian passage last year. This year team @ArtriumMoscow went further and invited world leading street artists to create legend murals from the walls of the building.
Felipe Pantone
11 Artists are: Shepard Fairey (@obeygiant), Felipe Pantone (@felipepantone), Tristan Eaton (@tristaneaton), Ben Eine (@einesigns), @PichiAvo, Okuda San Miguel (@okudart), Pokras Lampas (@pokraslampas), @Faith47, @WKInteract, Faust, Haculla.
Ben Eine
Okuda San Miguel
Desso - Human Fascination (Directors Cut)
“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than one seeks”
Carpet as landscapes, and landscapes as carpets. A new film for DESSO directed by Thomas Traum as part of their “HUMAN FASCINATION” campaign. Four types of carpets were matched to four landscapes with four characters exploring these landscapes. Additionally, CG artefacts provide a visual link between both worlds, the carpets and the landscapes.
Joelle Grace Rosen Photography
Joelle Grace Rosen is an editorial and portrait photographer based in Atlanta. Her personal work portrays a sense of longing for a world seen through rose colored lenses. She has been photographing people for the past 8 years, studying the combination of emotional vulnerability and individual beauty. Combining her love of retro styling and creative direction, Joelle creates dream-like editorial portraiture full of color and depth.
Dmitry Ligay: Guru
Talented artist Dmitry Ligay shared his latest editorial illustrations made for Robb Report magazine
OFFF Moscow 2019 Titles
@OFFFest takes place in the heart of Barcelona annually while it tours the world as OFFF on Tour for the rest of the year.
Event team was thrilled to bring back OFFF to the city of Moscow in Russia for the third edition where they asked award-winning motion designer and filmmaker Filipe Carvalho to create the official Main Titles of this year's edition. Music by Shervin Shaeri (mutantjukebox.co.uk)
Sufferosa
@Sufferosa, a Mystery Adventure in III Acts, directed by The Kissinger Twins is an interactive Instagram series that reflects on youthfulness, beauty, and the sense of being lost in a maze you can’t escape
Thematically, @Sufferosa is a neo-noir thriller and a satire on the cultural obsession with beauty and youth in the present-day world. The story follows a private eye Ivan Johnson looking for a missing woman. His investigation leads him to Carlos von Braun’s Clinic. This is when the interactive part begins - the user becomes the detective and unfolds the story piece by piece adding suspense and intrigue to a narrative.
In this artistic, non-commercial storytelling experiment the directors duo The Kissinger Twins strive to create a new kind of serialized storytelling in social media. @Sufferosa blends original footage with samples from classic film, literature, and music (Glass Candy, Sonic Youth), taking influences from adventure games.
Nike Series by Christian Tyroller
Talented CG artist Christian Tyroller and art director at Aixspinoza together with the team delivered motion visuals for Nike’s latest campaigns: Mercurial & Phantom
ABC FW19 by Konstantin Kofta
Konstantin Kofta released a new collection of wearable art mixing 20s century avant-guard practice with modern methods of post-human relationships
“Relationship of man and space, the synthesis of technical and creative, making the form is absolute by bringing to geometrical perfection. Forms cleared from any symbolism and metaphoricity, repeatability, monochrome, neutral surfaces, industrial materials and methods of manufacture. ABC seeks to convey the simplified essence and form of objects, cutting offsecondary images and shells.The symbolism prevails based on three main figures also colors, dots and lines”
Nudes by Nasty Ibragimova
Russia-raised worldwide-based digital artist Nasty Ibragimova knows how to make 3D sensual and arousing without sexualising or even using body-realted image
Dalí Lives
“I believe in general in death, but in the death of Dali, absolutely not.” Salvador Dalí
Just in time of his 115 Anniversary, St.Petersburg (Florida, US) museum of Salvador Dalí brought him back alive using AI technologies
“The exhibition, called Dalí Lives, was made in collaboration with the ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners (GS&P), which made a life-size re-creation of Dalí using the machine learning-powered video editing technique. Using archival footage from interviews, GS&P pulled over 6,000 frames and used 1,000 hours of machine learning to train the AI algorithm on Dalí’s face. His facial expressions were then imposed over an actor with Dalí’s body proportions, and quotes from his interviews and letters were synced with a voice actor who could mimic his unique accent, a mix of French, Spanish, and English.”
“With 45 minutes of newly created footage and thousands of combinations, each visitor gets a different experience. There are scenes that open with him reading the newspaper, with an overlay of the current front page of The New York Times; if it’s raining, he’ll comment on the weather”
Pelle Cass Photography
“A photographer and digital artist, Cass combines hundreds of singular moments shot in the street and other public locations. In his photos, made in locations ranging from nondescript city streets to college sports arenas, bodies battle for attention, perfectly stopped and coordinated. Cass’s ongoing series Selected People began in 2008 in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he lives”
“To make the compositions, I put my camera on a tripod, take up to a thousand pictures, and compile selected figures into a final photograph that is kind of a still time-lapse. I change nothing — not a pixel. I simply select what to keep and what to omit. It all happened precisely as you see it, just not at the same time”
OFFF Barcelona 2019 Main Titles
Chris Bjerre was invited by OFFF Festival to create official Main Titles for 2019 head event went in Barcelona last month
In a parallel universe our infrastructure and power grid has collapsed. All lines of communication have broken down. In the absence of influence, organic life has started to evolve.
This film is meditation on the creative path and how we as creatives often need to go through hardship and discomfort in order to evolve and grow.
Sound Track: Echoic Audio
Gastón Ugalde
Gastón Ugalde, born 1944 in La Paz, Bolivia (Venice Biennale 2009, 2001) is considered a visual arts leader in the region. His work is deeply rooted in Bolivian traditions and filled with socio-political references.
#gastonugalde
FITC Toronto 2019 Titles
@FITC Toronto is a globally recognized industry event showcasing the best the world has to offer in design, digital development, media and innovation in creative technologies – it’s three days and nights of presentations, parties, installations and performances that unite and transform the industry. Here is their 2019 Titles directed by Mike Winkelmann best known as @Beeple_Crap (and you may remember him as an indirect collaborator at our @Digital.Decade show) with a team of dozen talented 3D and 2D artists. And this all heavily reminds me 1985 Dire Straits first 3D music video lol :)
Supernova - Art film by Maxim Zhestkov
Supernova is an experimental 4K art film directed and designed by Maxim Zhestkov and made in Zhestkov.Studio
“Everything around and inside us was conceived in a huge explosion of a star billions of years ago… and, probably, recycled from other matrices myriad times. In this eternal carousel of matter, particles gather, form complicated structures and then burst into all directions fusing atoms together and producing new elements and points of view, new colours and patterns of perception. “
“Explosions could be perceived as a destructive force and the process of tearing previously formed matter apart and, therefore, could have negative connotations; however, fundamentally, only the process of breaking familiar structures and rearranging them into new, more sophisticated shapes could kindle new meanings and ideas and be the main creative force forming the future.”
The art film was initiated as the title sequence for @FITC 2019 / Amsterdam.
CGI Classic Art
To recreate art in 3D is not a new thing but young digital artist Elia Pellegrini went a bit different way and brought classic art under a new light
The Copernicus Project
For Land O’Lakes “The Copernicus Project” at SxSW 2019, Aggressive collaborated with Loop Agency to create an immersive installation surrounding viewers with visuals and sound, crafting a thrilling ride through the biodiversity of world’s food system
Client: Land O’Lakes
Production & VFX: Aggressive/Loop
Creative Directors: Alex Topaller, Alex Mikhaylov, Daniel Shapiro,
Art Director: Alex Mikhaylov
CG Supervisor: Max Chelyadnikov
Producer: Alexander Aab
3D Artists: Artemy Perevertin, Vitaliy Babich, Daniil Rybkin
2D Artist: Vladimir Tomin @tomin.works
Production Manager: Won Cha
Sound Design & Music: Smider
Concept illustration by Daria Ozerova
Ukrainian artist Daria Ozerova creates illustration and characters leaving a lot of space for thoughts for a viewer
OFFF 2019 Open Film
Our second encounter with OFFF Festival was in 2009 where Prologue then lead by Ilya Abulkhanov presented event’s Main Titles in a sci-fi post-soviet “Kin-dza-dza” way. Little did we know that 10 years later, now Mill+ director, Ilya, will be invited to present 15-minutes “ARXIV”, a post human drama and indeed a continuation of original 2009 short movie.
ARXIV is an immersive sci-fi family drama is set in two time frames: the deep future, that is left with no future, and the near future, that will bring about the eventual dystopian collapse of society. Protagonist Lew Aron survives both time frames and is set to discover a potential outlet to confront his innermost desire, or what’s left of it.
Now in its 19th year, OFFF is regarded as one of the world’s most influential creativity festivals. OFFF consists of three-days of conferences, workshops, activities, and performances. It takes place in Barcelona annually, before appearing around the world as ‘OFFF on Tour’ with the next happens in Moscow