"White Owl" Josh Garrels video

Yay!! We finally finished the Josh Garrels video we've been hard at work on! It ended up being a much bigger project than we've ever attempted. This past week has been a sleepless blur. But a wonderful sleepless blur. It was quite magical... exhausting, but magical. : )

I hope you enjoy it!! I'll do a little "behind the scenes" post later and show you some of the artwork and rough sketches from the creative process.

And you need to stop by Josh's website and download his new album for FREE. It is beautiful.

Happy Fathers Day to all you dads. And happy fathers day to my amazing dad! Love you!!

Arian

The Wire

It's go time! Two days left to finish our animated video for Josh Garrels! His new (and free!!!!) album releases Wednesday. Daniel has moved his animation station from his office across town into our bedroom with me (yessssss.) so that we can work side by side (or back to back) to get this thing done in the next 36 hours or so. Probably gonna be a late late night but I LOVE. THIS. Love it!! This will be our fourth video we've made together and hopefully our best. Looking forward to sharing it with you!

(a little sneak preview for ya) ; )

Best Job Ever

I am LOVING the current music video project we are working on.  The musician is one of my FAVS so collaborating with him like this is so fun and such an honor!! Plus I love, love, love working with Daniel. And now we've got a new team member, our illustrating/animating friend, Luke!

(Sidenote: Check out this music video Luke created. He wrote the song, performed it, illustrated and and animated the video. Talk about multi-talented!)

We had our first team meeting via skype (Daniel and Luke at their office and me at home) to work out the details of the main two characters. Here's a shot of my screen during the meeting. It's truly a collaborative process with all three of us contributing sketches and ideas. Fuuuuun stuff!!

And Daniel and I spent our weekend evenings nestled in our cozy bedroom, listening to the song on repeat and painting/drawing away!

 And here are the stars of the video! I won't show you too much along the way so as not to ruin any fun surprises when the video comes out in June, but I thought it'd be fun to introduce you to our father/son duo.

I think we're gonna really enjoy working in this style....it's a fun combination of real painted textures and digital color. So I'll get to wear my paint smock and get messy with paint and big sheets of paper and all kinds of brushes.

Hope your week is off to a good start!

Arian

Noah Video!

I finally get to show you our latest music video. We've been working on it on and off for awhile so I'm glad it's done! It was a lot of fun to work on!



I did the illustrations in pen then scanned them in and colored them in Photoshop. Then Daniel worked his animating magic with Adobe After Effects. Fun stuff.

We went to Hudson's kindergarten music concert today. It's moments like that where it really sinks in that I'm a mom of a school-aged kid. He's 6!

And he had his second little violin recital over the weekend. Proud of my boy!

Hope your week is a bit more relaxed than ours is!

Arian : )

T-shirt/cd Give-Away!

I just finished another t-shirt for one of my fav bands, Seabird (sweet music video here). And I'd love to give one away along with their new Christmas EP.  With Thanksgiving over, I think it's officially okay to listen to Christmas music...very loudly.

So leave a comment here and let me know your favorite Christmas song/album (besides this one of course ; ) I'll randomly pick a winner on Thursday so check back! I'll be grabbing the shirt on Sunday evening so, if you're the winner, make sure to email me with your shirt size before then.

Video Sneak Peek

Here's a little sneak peek at my desktop right now. We're hard at work on our next music video. This one's for the kiddies! I'll be sure to show you when it's done!

When Daniel and I both have to work late, we like to keep our video chat windows open so that, even though he's working in the living room and I'm working in bedroom, we can still feel like we're working together : )

I've also got a new print to show you and, as usual, I'll be giving away a free one. So stop back soon!

Arian : )