The Image Foundation: Seamless Solutions for Complex Concepts

We're excited to share these two new pieces by The Image Foundation. This CGI and creative retouching studio has yet again proved to be a reliable source for completing complicated assignments with skillful creativity. 

 The Image Foundation created an enticing tree out of gifts, paying homage to all of the holiday happiness UPS delivers each year. The client, Doner Advertising in Detroit, asked for "a beautifully stacked tree of toys--  not a heap".  Easier said then done.  Almost all the elements of the tree were created as 3D models, retouched in photoshop, carefully layered,  and then composited into a wintry background.

Here are two samples of the project in its development stages. A clean, concise sketch was drawn, followed up by some art direction and then a 3-D grayscale model was built.

The art director's sketch.

This piece was created for a Boston Magazine article about a recent increase in gambling and casino culture in Boston. The Image Foundation married a high-energy night-scape of the Vegas strip to the Boston skyline.

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DAHL TAYLOR DRAWS FOR THE FIRST ANNUAL WORKBOOK CREATIVE CARNIVAL AT THE ART DIRECTORS CLUB

 

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Here is an excerpt from the Workbook blog regarding the event:

"Workbook's Creative Carnival party took place Thursday night, and the event was an outrageous, smashing success. With the outstanding mid-town Art Directors Club as the venue, The more than fifty photographers and illustrators took center stage to create their impressions of the Carnival scene. Twenty-five Workbook illustrators sketched what they saw, and at least as many Workbook photographers shot the scene: a contortionist, freak show, lion tamer, and burlesque performers. How about drag queens serving incredible libations and hors de oeuvres? Creative Carnival was not your average cocktail party by any means. Workbook kicked off Halloween weekend with a unique vibe that created a night no attendee will forget anytime soon. Nothing was too strange, too abstract or too risque, and an anything-goes mood defined the evening."

Workbook also announced that 43 of the pieces created were sold on site for a total of $2,150. This money will go to the ADC Scholarship Fund, which awards 5 scholarships each year for exceptional art and photography students. 

POKED STUDIO POKES OUR APPETITE!

 

Poked Studio recently put some of their signature creatures on the packaging for a new line of children’s milk products for Tine, a dairy corporation in Scandinavia. Although these products are geared toward kids, the artwork makes them appealing to a variety of consumers. Poked Studio's ability to captivate an audience through original and whimsical creations makes them a perfect candidate for projects ranging from package design to publishing.


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CAROLINE ATTIA ANIMATES THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR JIM BIANCO'S SONG "ELEVATOR OPERATOR"

 

In this music video I animated for Jim Bianco, I created a character design with a retro feeling. I wanted the colors to pop with the music so in the beginning I chose to make them more quiet. I used a mix of flash for the character animation and then After Effects to polish the look of the video. The challenge was to create cartoon versions of the band members and the amount of freedom I had on this project was pretty exciting.

-Caroline Attia

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HAVE A SPOT OF MILKY TEA!

We're excited to announce a new relationship with Milky Tea, an exceptional 3D studio.  Milky Tea is a complete on-demand digital illustration, animation and interactive production resource. This UK based group has worked with a number of internationally renowned brands including Sony, BBC and Lloyds TSB. Along with examples of their final art, we've also shared some of their impressive sketch work below.

 

 

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KATE FORRESTER FOR MCDONALDS!

Kate Forrester has been kept busy working her way through the alphabet for McDonalds new UK advertising campaign. The brand asked Kate to create these beautiful illustrations based on letters of the alphabet. Each one stands for a different aspect of the brand's ethics. In addition, Kate was asked to design several huge illustrations to appear on the sides of the McDonalds trucks.

“My favourite part of this McDonalds project was to design some huge and ornate illustrations to adorn the sides of their delivery trucks. This is surely my biggest 'canvas' to date but I had so much fun inventing these surreal landscapes. Commissioned by the international advertising agency, Leo Burnett, I have been working on this project for about 6 months and there is still more to come!”

- Kate Forrester

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CAMP BRAVO SUMMER CAMPAIGN BY NEIL DUERDEN

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The project was created for Bravo Network through Tanka Design. The piece involved composing an  interactive map for Camp Bravo's sweepstakes site.

Neil created the background scene showing a park/campground setting. The client supplied greenscreen-shot photography of  different people from Bravo network shows and Neil integrated them throughout the scene. The users can click on sections of the map and zoom in to see a more detailed view of the image.

“I was asked to create an online campaign to support Summer by Bravo utilizing both my own photo hyper-realistic style and screen shots from the video. In order to create this project I had to make changes in perspective as well as resolution. It turned out to be a very detailed piece to execute.”

-Neil Duerden

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WELCOMING THE WHIMSICAL WORLD OF ZUTTO!

"My name is Zutto and I'm a Russian-based illustrator and graphic designer. I was born in 1983 in a small city in South Ural. All of my work is heavily inspired by nature. I like to create imaginative worlds that are full of fluid, flowing, bright-colored shapes, strange creatures, meandering rivers, dark woods, and mountain slopes. I started my freelance career in 2009 and I enjoy it because it means that I can combine commercial work with my personal projects. "

-Zutto

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MONA DALY'S FLIRTY SUMMER SILHOUETTES

MENDOLA ARTISTS WELCOMES AMY DEVOOGD!

 

"My work is inspired by everything from the designs of Saul Bass to the street photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson, and certainly by the history of fashion, advertising, and popular culture. Although I have been known to work exclusively digitally when the occasion calls for it, my preferred medium is acrylic paint on paper. I often find inspiration in my bottomless archive of street photography, or if a specific composition has been requested by a client, I'll set up a shoot with models. I use the final photographs, parts of which I've usually redrawn or digitally manipulated, as templates for a series of detailed stencils hand-cut from frisket, then transferred to paper where they become masks for thin, flat layers of paint. The paintings are produced quickly as one-off prints, sometimes with areas of texture painted in with a brush or pressed in with a swatch of fabric."

-Amy DeVoogd

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