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We made a stupid Musical for our official ALEXA 35 "test" for ARRI. This musical number honors all the producers and crew members who have to execute their directors’ bad ideas. Thank you to ARRI and Chase Hagen for allowing us to test this amazing camera!  Thank you to Piñata Post and George Costakis for the coloring. Thanks to the crew and everyone involved. DP: Kevin Fletcher Cam Op: Michael Cooke Bolt Op: Karl Fuchs AC: Matt Gromley Gaffer and Studio: https://bit.ly/3tS2uVR Thank you to Coach and Sarge for donating their studio! Colorist: George Costakis  Thank you to everyone who donated their time!

(PLASTIK) is a short film made with Meshminds in association with United Nations Environment Programme to raise awareness and catalyse action to end plastic pollution in South-East Asia. The story follows a child who looks through a telescope she made out of a plastic bottle and experiences glimpses of our plastic-polluted future. More about the film: https://bit.ly/39AzlrC

PHARRELL WILLIAMS FT. 21 SAVAGE, TYLER, THE CREATOR | Cash In Cash Out • Directed by François Rousselet • Produced by DIVISION • VFX by ETC

Ernie Ball is celebrating our 60th anniversary. To highlight the fun and vibrant culture of the brand, the guitar company got me onboard to create this 4 minute animation. The Slinky story highlights the formation and evolution of the iconic Slinky brand of rock-n-roll guitar strings and the incredible impact these strings had on the development of the rock-n-roll guitar. The Ernie Ball company has been the world’s #1 electric guitar string brand for over 60 years pioneering custom gauge electric guitar strings that have become the industry standard.  Animation and Design: Ariel Costa (BlinkMyBrain) Additional illustration: Lisett Ledon Music: Blues Saraceno.

Use headphones! 5 productions. 4 countries. 3 continents. This sonic experience is the reveal film for the first Lexus all-electric car. The creative challenge was to express the imperceptible side of nature through sound, exemplifying the erosion between driver and natural world. Logistically, this was my first time directing any part of a shoot remotely (about 75% remote), which at one point involved directing two productions in Japan and Thailand simultaneously. Very fun challenge, ultimately made graceful by all the amazing people who contributed around the globe.  Friends have asked how much of the footage we filmed ourselves, so I’ll come out and say there are THREE shots in this video we licensed instead of filmed. See if you can guess them! xo Slain –––––––– CREDITS –––––––– Executive Creative Director: Hiroyuki Ito Director: @CalebSlain Agency (Dentsu) Creative Director: Masashi Sada Art Director: Hirofumi Isoya Planner: Daisuke Matsunaga  Planner: Takahiro Hasegawa    Production (AOI) Producer: Hirohide Takene Producer: Ryuta Iwasa Production Manager: Koichiro Narita Production Manager: Naoko Kido Production Manager: Haonan Mak Production Manager: Haruka Ono U.S. Production: @ampersand_us Managing Director: @detchmendy Exec Producer: Susan Herbert Line Producer: @DaveJRobertson Post Producer: @susanagosti Mr. Slain Producer: Keita Yamamura CINEMATOGRAPHY Big Sur: @williamdstone Japan: @erwancloarec Michigan: @mr_terpstra Thailand: @garndp Peru: @danielgarate77 Starring: @makoto88kamiya POST PRODUCTION Editor: @pezzillosview Audio Post Production: @otbirds OTB Sound Design + Mix: @idelgas OTB Executive Producer: Guin Frehling Colorist: Benoit Coté Rodeo Prost Prod: @nkmcgregor Rodeo Asst: @_bugbee_ VFX + CG: SLANTED * Atsushi Ueta * Shinji Santoh * Kazushi Nagase * Ayano Watanabe Online Editor: Chitoshi Murata — PRODUCTION UNITS —  BIG SUR Production Supervisor: @flyin321 Commercial Coord: @ursiebrown Travel Coord: Lina Hou DOT Coord: Marques Jackson 1st AD: Paul Chaput 2nd AD: Adam Stern Chili Cinematographer: Will Stone 1st AC: Mark Quintos 2nd AC: Theresa Wong DIT: Bryan Perido Gaffer: Frank Stzalkowski BBE: Tom Cloutier Key Grip: Mark Otewalt Production Designer: Brett Lama SPFX: Matt Heon FX: Zack Lonas FX: Jennifer Terrel Prop Master: Josh Frager Precision Driver: Matt O’Sullivan Arm Car Op: Robert C. Barcelona Arm Car Driver: Patrick Roth Remote Head Tech: Keaton Bowlby Drone Pilot: @jofhanwright Drone Op: @seanriv Drone Tech: Kai Hill Gimbal Tech: Ruben Palacios VFX Supervisor: @tikiguy_69 VTR: Andreas Tarazi Script Supervisor: Carol De Pasquale JAPAN Assistant Director: Nagisa Kodama Director of Photography: Erwan Cloarec Translator Producer: Taka Kawatsu 1st AC: Yasushi Miyata 2nd AC: Moe Arizumi 3rd AC: Alex Witmer DIT: Sou Tony Naoi DIT: Fuya Imai 
Car Stylist Team (SEEK) * Nozomu Sato * Akio Kawamura Low Loader Operator (S3) * Teppei Kazama * Shota Saito Drivers (GROOVE) * Shinji Kikuchi * Shigenobu Murayama * Touma Suzuki * Toru Tanaka * Muneo Hirakawa * Shingo Omori * Akane Ikemoto * Masaki Matsumoto Stylist: Takumi Iwata Stand-In: Masaru Tsuzuruki Nurse: Hayato Takahama MICHIGAN Cinematographer: Chad Terpstra Production Coordinator: Dennis Nagelkirk Camera Assistant: Jackson Ezinga Production Scout Assistant: Andrea Napierkowski THAILAND Passion Pictures Bangkok Producer: Beryl Anne Tan Cinematographer: Mr. Rattakarn “Garn” Srithavatchai Production Manager: Ms. Kornlapas Sawasdee Assistant PM: Mr. Weerasak Kala  Location Manager: Mr. Ekthanat Sawasdee Prop Master: Mr. Jirapat Theparvut Props: Mr. Chaiya Changphauk Props: Ms. Kanitwanan Pornjarungsak  Focus: Mr. kitikorn Nuchpum Head Lighting: Mr. Tanayut Muhamud Key Grip: Mr. Ittipol Nabangchang // Lighting & Grip (Gear Head co., ltd) Camera Team (Lifeboat Camera) PERU APU Productions Cinematographer: Daniel Gárate Producer: Bruno Canale

In the wilderness, a tree begins to question whether it may actually be a man tripping on hallucinogens. WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PRODUCED by Varun Raman & Tom Hancock CAST Tree – Daniel Campbell Rick – Michael Shon Tiny – Shaun Wright CREW Director of Photography – Jamie Harding 1st Assistant Camera – Cameron Reed Production Assistant – Shaun Wright POST Editor – Darrin Brading VFX – Morgan Beringer Colourist – Daniel Garden Sound Department – Aumeta Sound Design, Re-recording Mix and Voiceover Technician – Seb Bruen Music – Three Peaks Music (Seb Bruen & Ben Riches) Mix Consultant – Tim Harrison ——————————————————————————– FESTIVALS + AWARDS Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival – LAB COMPETITION STUDENT JURY PRIZE Fantasia International Film Festival (World Premiere) Encounters Film Festival (UK Premiere) Fantastic Fest (US Premiere) Aesthetica Short Film Festival Palm Springs International Short Film Festival London Short Film Festival Atlanta Film Festival St. Louis International Film Festival Flatpack Festival Florida Film Festival DeadCenter British Shorts Izmir International Short Film Festival REGARD – Saguenay International Short Film Festival Vienna Shorts Manchester Film Festival RiverRun International Film Festival Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Landshut Short Film Festival LA Comedy Film Festival HARD:LINE International Film Festival Fantaspoa – International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre Abertoir Horror Festival Splat!FilmFest Maryland Film Festival Celluloid Screams Horror Film Festival Courts Mais Trash Exit 6 Film Festival – BEST EDITING Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival – BEST MICRO SHORT AUDIENCE AWARD Leiden Shorts Oxford Film Festival Anchorage International Film Festival Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS Monster Fest Short Com International Comedy Film Festival Saskatoon Fantastic Film Festival Short Sounds Film Festival London-Worldwide Comedy Short Film Festival Videodrunk COPYRIGHT Parallel Madness © 2021

A comical, 3D animated short film recounting the events of the space race that took place between the USA and the USSR from 1955 until 1969. Using the real timeline as a base, our team elaborated, exaggerated, and made some downright bizarre interpretations of how the events during this spectacular period took place.

An ode to effort. Clips by Dennis Ludwig, Ryan Neddeau, and Frankie Eder Skaters: Blake Johnson, Markus Blessing, Ben Nordberg, Walker Ryan, Ray Corey, Carlos Montes, Matthew Parra Sound Design and Mix by TJ Dumser Music performed by Sky White Tiger Color by Kristopher Smale Edit, VFX, and concept by Najeeb Tarazi Big thank you to Dennis, Ryan, and Frankie

A simple slide with the power to get your coworkers to chill. https://bit.ly/3tFimet April 2022 Agency: Mischief Animation: Dirty Work Audio: Antfood

TILES – AN EXPERIMENTAL FILM ABOUT TESSELLATED PATTERNS IN KINETIC BEHAVIOUR This film explores the module as the origin of harmony of a pattern, finding beauty in simplicity. Using basic elements of geometry such as points, lines, circles, triangles, or squares, and combining them with the basic formulas of kinetics such as transaction, rotation, trajectory, or scale, we achieve new compositions of tessellated patterns of linear progression by increments. Combining these basic elements, with only the use of black and white as the maximum synthesis of the form, discovers the module’s potential as part of the whole by itself, creating geometric tessellations and complex abstract compositions that open a whole immense range of expressive possibilities. Directed by Diatomic studio Creative Direction and Motion Design by Diatomic studio Track by Thomas P. Heckmann – Tagträumer