Blue Eye Samurai Season 2 Teaser! From one of the upcoming episodes I directed. Amazing work by our incredible team! Hope you all enjoy…
#blueeyesamurai#netflix#animation
Once a pipe dream, the idea of a federal film subsidy now seems like a real possibility:
• California Sen. Adam Schiff is working on introducing an incentive bill in Congress
• “We have a lot of our influence around the world as a result of American film and TV,” Schiff says. “We don’t want to lose that soft power.”
Read the full cover story on the mass exodus of LA productions by @GeneMaddaus: https://t.co/wwHFxvsUl3
"Kenji Iwaisawa - Movement & Line".
An upcoming documentary by Archipel about the director of "On-Gaku" & "100 Meters".
https://t.co/kvZXT5Ygna
Floyd Norman will receive an honorary Oscar.
He was the first black animator at Disney and had a 65-year run at the studio working on films such as ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘The Jungle Book’, ‘Mulan’ and ‘Toy Story 2’.
@TheCartoonBase This is a joke guys, cartoonists don’t have Zazlov money. But I do wish SOMEONE who actually loved animation and didn’t just want to scrap these beloved iconic brands for tax write offs would protect them from these horrifying mergers
New look at ‘RAY GUNN’, directed by Brad Bird (‘The Incredibles’)
The film follows a private inspector drawn into a case involving aliens & murder all in the alternate futuristic city Metropia.
(Source: @empiremagazine)
Now feels more important than ever to imagine a brighter future.
Five years ago, we released ‘Dear Alice’. An encapsulation of a Solarpunk future for Chobani.
Even all these years later, we still get tagged in repurposed content for this by the Solarpunk community!
Unlike Cyberpunk or Steampunk, Solarpunk envisions a future that you'd actually probably quite like to live in! It's not intended to be just an aesthetic, but a political movement towards a brighter and greener future.
Our short depicts humans, animals and nature all living and working harmoniously with non-invasive technology. It's a world where technology is used to enhance tried-and-true farming practices rather than to replace them with something that degrades nature. Solarpunk doesn't mean everyone has to live on a farm. Civilisations can still exist, and if you look closely, the buildings in the city incorporate greenery to bring nature to brick-and-mortar.
The central focus is on a woman narrating a letter written by a grandmother to her granddaughter about how she wants to leave behind a more sustainable future for her. It’s a nostalgic look towards a new era of agriculture, with beautifully crafted backgrounds, delicate animation and a completely unique score by long-time Ghibli composer (and absolute legend) Joe Hisaishi.
Director: Bjorn-Erik Aschim
Producer: Samia Ahmed
Executive Producer: James Duveen
Production Manager: Macarena Gaset
Head of Production: Hanae Seida
Art Director: Antoine Perez
Editor: Max Taylor
Storyboard: Maxime Jouniot, Louis Kynd
*full credits on website
#solarpunk #chobani #THELINE #DearAlice
i wanted to tell you how we made the visuals for nerve-bloom
i did it with Natalia Kleszczewska and Natalie Liu .
Natalia Kleszczewska is a painter , she painted the creatures and the backgrounds .
Natalie Liu is a computer graphics director , she shaped the digital dimension of the work .
my role in it was a creative director , bringing in the singer-songwriter tradition , where emotionally precise things happen inside the structure of a song . i guided colour pallettes , textures and the environments the music happens in .
to make this possible , during the process , natalia often had to paint many shapes and sizes , different textures and layers of colours . natalie then developed the visuals, designing and overseeing CGI elements , and finding ways for the digital to sit organically alongside Natalia’s world . and include my dramaturgy and creative direction.
we spent 7 months talking and working together , dedicated to relish in the craft of blending hand-made visuals with digital experimentation , 3D design and commit it to physical display technology . a lot of time was spent on researching different tools and techniques to find what worked best at each stage in the song .
like i’ve done before , i wanted to merge old things with tech , giving it soul & a meaning .
to paint a painting is an analog craft but computer programming is craftmanship too !! and both can co-exist ,
.....encouraging each other to bloom even further towards a mutual world .
there is a tradition in pop music for the mucisian to choose a video director . in the art world , this is called “curation” , but where we came from , it was natural that the musician would have strong opinions on what your song needed , which mood , colours , textures & storyline . today this is called “creative director” and it is something we didn’t credit ourselves with in the 90s , but i am starting to understand this better now .
i don´t think of me as a visual artist . because my heart is music . everything i do comes from a sonic point of view .
this is something i have called “sonic symbolism” , sound made visual , a reverse synesthesia .
when you listen to a song for the first time , it is like swallowing a whale , you need to feel the whole musical sculpture in one go .
the structure of a song has always been extremely important to me : what shape it is .
this is part of the craft of being a singer-songwriter
........... we are tune sculpturors .......
since i am talking about the visuals for nerve bloom it is impossible to not mention the avatars in my music videos .
they have replaced the storyteller with anattempt to connect to the more universal element of music , through animation, avatars , puppetry both digital and analog .
for me they are marionettes in a puppet-theatre , hopefully in a similar realm as the jungian archetypes
( which we all can act out the characteristics of ...)
.... i feel nerve-bloom is a natural continuation ....
an animated avatar archetype
singing you a song
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Avatars, animation and archetypes: Nerve Bloom (remix) – on display at Listasafn Íslands / National Gallery of Iceland until September 20th 2026.
The production of this film was made possible with the generous support of #bottegaveneta.
"Bords de Juine", an indie French animated series project by Benjamin Warnitz (storyboard artist on "Arcane").
Animatic trailer & artworks >> https://t.co/HnWyHjJu6k
Today I turn 30 🎂
But before I get old…
For the past 7 months, I’ve been sharing content centered around animation, and somehow it’s grown into this beautiful little community.
So I wanted to make a small love letter to my city. My home🇫🇷