Wolves At the Door

In the spirit of Halloween, just about my favourite day of the year, I thought I'd share this slightly spooky animated intro I did for Wolf Mountain Writing Collective's final show this past July. With a short timeline and a theme: "Wolves at the Door" I set out to keep the animation minimal, and let the sparse, almost silhouetted compositions do the work. For the music, Mel from Familiar Wild lent me her gorgeous song Migrations from her other project Tend and See, which fit the mood and imagery perfectly.
 

Animated Intro for Wolf Mountain Writing Collective's July 22nd show at Little Mountain Gallery "Wolves At the Door," featuring the song "Migrations" by Tend and See. www.tendandsee.com wolfmountaincollective.com

Playing with smoke

With my first music video for T Nile wrapped up (but still unreleased) I thought I'd share some test treatments for an upcoming video with another very talented Vancouver artist. That song is yet unreleased, so I used the lovely "Show Me Love" by Hundred Waters as a placeholder. 

Uploaded by Jen Morgan on 2015-08-16.

Digital Ghosts

I love the beautiful digital tableaus in this video Sizarr by Baggae Man. Employing a similar technique as Radiohead's House of Cards (using point clouds to render 3D space), they were wise to keep the scenes static (to avoid the glitchy look of capturing movement with a 3D scanner) and use a digital camera to create movement in the scene.
The result is ghostly, serene and slightly unsettling in a uncanny valley kind of way.

I've long been interested in using the unique qualities of CGI to create imagery that couldn't be generated with conventional camera. Sizarr's video brought to mind an idea for a video I had years ago, and seeing as I haven't seen any one do it yet, maybe it's time to resurrect that ghost of an idea. :)

NEW ALBUM "NURTURE" out NOW ! Buy here: CD: sny.ms/Nurture_CD Vinyl: sny.ms/Nurture_Vinyl MP3: sny.ms/Nurture_MP3 ▶ Subscribe to Sizarr's Youtube Channel: bit.ly/1swmFyA ▶ Facebook: facebook.com/SizarrOfficial?ref=hl ▶ Website: sizarr.com/ Realized by BildundTonFabrik

Friday inspiration

Loving this short by  Leonardo Dalessandri.
It perfectly encapsulates the euphoric feeling of travelling to another land, the sense of hyper-compressed memory. Beautiful.

Over than 3500 km traveled in 20 days, capturing landscapes from the bluish tones of Pamukkale to the warm ones of Cappadocia, the all passing by a great variation of colors, lights and weathers through six other cities. I've crossed Cappadocia, Pamukkale, Ephesus, Istanbul, Konya; and tasted baklava, kunefe, doner, the turkish tea; and got the chance to meet the soul of Turkey, its people.. and got their smiles and their hospitality. This is Turkey lived by me from north to south, and I hope you enjoy it :) Directed and edited by Leonardo Dalessandri Music: "Experience" by Ludovico Einaudi - facebook.com/ludovicoeinaudi Voice off: Meryem Aboulouafa. You can follow her on soundcloud in the following link: soundcloud.com/meryemaboulouafa I have a new page on Facebook: facebook.com/leonardolucadalessandri You can like it, share it, or just have a look on it :) Watch my previous work "Watchtower Of Morocco": vimeo.com/66659080

A tease..

T Nile's If Only video is getting closer! I was playing around with some post-processing and thought it was time for a teaser screenshot. The biggest challenge has been the background treatments; digital abstractions that are created somewhat randomly but have to move and pulse in time to the music. It's getting there but not just ready to be released to the wild just yet..

Things are happening.

From now on I'll be sharing a little more of my own work in this space, in addition to art and music that inspires me. Watch this blog for updates on my newest project; a music video for the very talented T Nile.
Exciting times!

http://thatgamecompany.com/

I want to make games that are like this game.

http://www.laurelhalo.com/