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Prologue + MTV

Dumais — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:34:02 +0000

Once again, some inspirational and somehow edgy imagery by Prologue, this time for MTV Video Music Awards titles.

Playgrounds Festival Titles

Dumais — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:26:52 +0000

Playgrounds is a two-day festival in Tilburg, the Netherlands, where you can see the best digital audiovisual art in the world, such as music videos, animations, commercials, character design, VFX and games AND you can find out how it’s been made during artist lectures and Q&A’s.

Credits:

Direction & Post-Production - Onesize (onesize.com)
Photography - Jasper Faber (jasperfaber.com/photography.html)
Playgroundfestival: (playgroundsfestival.nl/)

Dan Winter Interview

Dumais — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:01:34 +0000

True Blood’s Opening Titles Behind The Scene

Dumais — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:09:15 +0000

It’s always interesting to be able to sneak a peak at ”how they did it”, specially when it’s something you’re deep down into! I’m fully addicted HBO’s show True Blood. Vampires, sex and drama - what can we want more?

I was more then happy to get to see behind the scene video of the opening title which I find so awesome and inspiring. They used anything form consumer DV Cam to Super 8! Even some stop motion is hiding here and there. This clearly is an interesting approach and it’s great to see that their is still some people out there getting to play the left field form time to time!

Also check the viral campaign for it, once again by Digital Kitchen - damn funny by the way:

Art & Copy

Dumais — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:24:27 +0000

I happen to accidentally become a commercial photographer, got my first contract right after my first solo show. I love my life and love my work, but sometime, it’s good to have some external eye looking at what we do.

This documentary sounds arch but also like a to-be-seen.

Heard of it from Simon.

555 Kubrik

Dumais — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:50:47 +0000

What a mind blowing project!

Une Ville

Dumais — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:33:36 +0000

Visiting Woolf + Lapin’s blog I discovered this neat short film, basically a public performance by Emmanuel Bellegarde. Made in only 24 hours with a whole lot of scotch tape, it’s a pretty interesting visual experience and a great public experience. En Français seulement!

Coldplay Chalk Extravaganza

Dumais — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:08:07 +0000

I worked in a record for a little while few years back and my manager was a die-hard fan of Coldplay. I could hardly handle them, don’t know why! I think they were too easy listening for me back then.

Anyhow, they totally got me with one of their latest music video for the song Strawberry Swing. The song is great, sort of remembering me of a dial down Animal Collective psycho-pop sound and the animation, made by Shynola, a London based art collective, is awesomely story boarded and realized.

They are also behind a lot of great music video, including Beck’s E-Pro and Radiohead’s Pyramid Song.

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Embedding Disabled by Request?

Universal and EMI disabled the embedding of these two videos and most of their other artists as well for an unknown reason. Sometime I’m wondering what’s wrong with the music industry? Well, a whole lot of things if someone ask me. I looked around, found a lot of rant about that but didn’t find one plausible explanation.

Chris Buck

Dumais — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:19:17 +0000

Here’s Chris Buck newest promo piece, a booklet of portraits of look a like. What a great idea and it’s well done once again but that Toronto ex-pat.

Thanks WTJ for that… he definitively have access I haven’t

You can read a pretty interesting interview ( on the CBC website ) with the master when he was traveling around to portrait other folks named Chris Buck for a personal project .

And here’s another piece of anthology when Chris Buck pictured Nick Cave in 1988 - remember film anyone? And enjoy is totally ghetto gear at the time!

Power In Numbers

Dumais — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:25:12 +0000

K-os, one of Toronto best regarded hip hop artist, just released a music video he co-directed with the brilliant Canadian animator Drew Lifghtfoot.

It’s probably one of the best pixilation ( stopmotion technique where live actors are used as a frame-by-frame subject ) video out there. 4-2-3-1-Action!

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A few other interesting music video making good use of pixilation: