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This week, a few guys came into the office to show some work. Among the presenters were representatives of Digital Kitchen, a motion design firm with offices in Seattle, Chicago, and NY.

Check it:


Pardon the low quality. I figured it was a better one to embed at low quality and still get the idea across. Check out this Zune spot on their website.

Real busy this month, but it should be looking a bit smoother in a few days. Here’s a taste:

These BP commercials have been on T.V. recently done by Mekanism, a production studio in San Fran. Check them out, and check out the site. Some pretty sweet stuff.

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Tonight was the AIGA Kyle Cooper presentation. I earned my free, thrid row ticket into the event by directing traffic outside. I saw a few people I recognized, but didn’t get a chance to go say, “Hey, what’s up? How are you doing? Really? Aww. That’s too bad.”

It started on time, 15 min after scheduled. It was amazing.

For those who don’t know, Kyle Cooper studied under Paul Rand. He’s old-school, in a new exciting way. The key thing to take away from what he said was that you have to be a great graphic designer before you can become good at motion graphics. Essentially, the concept comes before the technology. (Where have I heard that before?)

Paul Rand’s work has a lot of motion despite being still. As is my understanding of motion graphics, it has to look good as a still before it’s going to look good in motion.

What I liked best about his work was his ability to just do what was best for each project. Kyle’s a strong Christian, yet he made a name for himself with the titles for “Seven”, in which he has said he was able to get into the mind of the serial killer in order to create the piece. He’s also relentless in achieving beautiful, perfectly crafted work in an insanely short amount of time. If you’ve seen the title’s to “Superman Returns”, that was done in 5 weeks.

There was a lot to be gotten (word?) out of the presentation. I’ve got a few images on Flickr.

One quick thing before I pass out:

Kyle Cooper will be speaking in Atlanta Wednesday evening at 6:30 pm. If you don’t know who he is, I gurantee you’ve seen his work. His current venture is Prologue Films. Keep refreshing the page and you’ll see more work. The event information is here.

I got to spend some time at Prologue Films in L.A. a few weeks ago, and the stuff is truely amazing. If you’ve got nothing to do, go to the presentation. If you have something else to do, skip it and come to the presentation.

My first test in After Effects:

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