Patrick Clair is a motion designer from Sydney, Australia. He specializes in visualizing information and directing design teams. Unlike a lot of motion designers working only for the web media, Patrick essentially works for TV He produces very efficient and original videos, with sometimes more experimental and artistic projects.
Patrick answered my questions through a little interview, in which he explains his career, his vision of motion design and design on other medias..
Alain Bashung and Serge Gainsbourg were two very very famous french singers (I don't know if they're known abroad). Alain Bashung, who passed away few years ago, made a cover album of Gainsbourg's L'home à la tête de chou. For the coming soon release of this album, a teaser video was produced by french video production agency ChezEddy and directed by Maxime Brunnel. This music video is almost a perfect illustration of this erotic song, with a great tone playing on subtle colours, sober graphics, a great animation work and not too much suggestive pictures.
Hyphen from Gatetour on Vimeo.
Hyphen is a unique art project, the result of the collaboration between alumni students from the Paris Gobelins School, and San Francisco Art Institute students. At first, project has been started in order to test a new long distance file transfer network. The result of this work is a very interesting work, playing with superimpositions, motion graphics, and classic footages. Physical and emotional distance are at the centre of this video, which deals with that in a very poetic and artistic way.
Amongst the designers of this project there is my friend Matthieu Baranger, who was in the same school with me, and who's now motion designer. By the way, have a look at his portfolio and at his blog, in which he recently wrote a nice post about ceegee.fr :) .
The other designers are : Coline Bertolle, Pascal Bouret, Gaëlle Lepetit, Elyette Llas, Delphine Lieu, Pauline Rémondat and Arnaud Vasseur.
You can visit the website of the San Francisco students, with the rest of the project, via http://hyphen.virb.com.
Passion Pictures is a film production company founded in 1987 by Andrew Ruhemann. The company has actually several studios through the world, like in Paris, London, New York or Melbourne. As well as working for advertising, music videos or animation, Passion Picturesworks in the field of television too,and produces documentaries. The company works with several very talented artists from a lot of countries. The videos are simply stunning, with a very high level of finishing, even when special effects are not used. Through the different realisations you can find the intro and outro sequence of the game Rockband - The Beatles, thelast stop motion advertising for Citroen C3, the TV ads for the french bank Caisse d'épargne or also the Gorillaz' music videos... In the rest of this article I suggest you a little selection of their best works, in video of course !
Studio Dialog is a studio specialized into motion graphics located in Calgary, Canada. Founded in 2005 by Steve Seeley and Robb Thompson, the team's philosophy relies on finding creativity through collaboration. Even if they sometimes work on printed or webdesign projects, the most of their production is motion design, with realisations for clients like Mercedes, Rolex, and some TV Channels. If we had to define a style for the work of the studio, I should say their specialists for 'corporate' videos, sequences between advertising and information.
Some videos and links in the rest of the article.
Cumulus is a motion graphics and graphic design collective located in Lyon, France. This studio works for clients like Bouygues, Tv channel Arte, or the french city Villeurbanne.. The collective is also active in the music field, with music videos direction and VJing performances. In this article you can read an interview of the three members of Cumulus Collective. The original interview was in french, so I tried to translate it into English but my english skills are limited...
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