Coming in 2016: Touched With Fire

We were thrilled to be tapped for visual effects for Paul Dalio’s Touched With Fire, which premiered at SXSW this year and will be in theaters on February 12, 2016.

The film stars Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby and Griffin Dunne in a story of two manic depressives who meet in a psychiatric hospital and begin a romance that brings out all of the beauty and horror of their condition. Spike Lee is the Executive Producer.

Our work included immersive environmental projections for a key scene and landed Declan Zimmermann a credit as Visual Effect Supervisor on the picture.

Watch the trailer.

We can’t wait to check it out on the big screen.

Perpetual Motion Graphics Gets In the Game with L.A. Times Piece

The surprising reasons L.A. doesn’t have an NFL team were explained in this branded content piece produced by TimeTravlr Creative for the L.A. Times.

Working from a script provided by Time Travlr, we contributed visual creative direction, design and animation for the video, using newsprint’s half-tone look as a visual jumping off point for a story told with archival headlines and images.

Production and Script: Matt Landfield and Sophia Betz, Time Travlr Creative
Visual Direction, Design and Animation: Declan Zimmermann

Quartz: The Next Billion New Delhi

Continuing our relationship with Quartz Events, our animations were live on the stage at The Next Billion New Delhi.

We look forward to our continued collaboration with Quartz and will have some exciting new animations to share at the flagship New York event in November, 2015

Published! 4 Secrets to Getting Hired …and Hired Back

While we are mostly sharing designs and animations, we like to share insights too.

The Freelancers Union recently featured article by Declan on their blog. Check it out here.

Recent conversations with freelancers about the ins and outs of our business, including some great monthly meetings of the Freelancers Union Spark events led to this article on the factors that get you hired. (Hint: your reel may not be as important as you think!)

With thanks to our interviewees Laurea De Ocampo, Scott Patterson and Victoria Jordan for sharing their insights.

Quartz The Next Billion: London Event Graphics

For the fourth Next Billion forum the team at Quartz wanted to take the event space to the next level with an immersive, branded environment that included animations in the main hall at One Marylebone in London.

The Quartz creative team brought us on board to design and animate site-specific motion elements, which we were thrilled to find popping up on Twitter and Instagram. We love the way our animations worked with the lighting design by Full Circle and site graphics by Pureworks. The total effect was truly greater than the sum of the parts.

The process involved tight collaboration with Associate Design Director Eric Trott (who designed all the Next Billion graphic elements) and Event Manager Maggee Dorsey (who worked closely with Eric on the design and look of the space). Event Producer Laurea de Ocampo was instrumental in facilitating seamless coordination with the tech team across the pond, ensuring all went down without a hitch on event day.