New project went live in 11 cities just recently for Champs. The goal was to show the tie in between the Jerseys in NBA 2014 and the real ones you can buy in the store. Matt Davis from NonBox came up with the concept and reached out to me to help piece it all together. Had to also shoot and swap all the uniforms for each team on the original Athlete photo shot by Aaron Hewitt. Added in some techy illustrations on the athlete as well. Jersey Photo by Ryan Unruh that is used in the POP stands in the stores. Background shot Rendered by 2k.
New Work in the Wild: Lebron 11 Forging Iron
New Project for Nike Basketball just was released, Lebron 11 Forging Iron: Heat Tested. Ryan Unruh shot the shoe and we went back and forth on a few ideas and this is where it ended up. Glowing floor was a bleary eyed late night idea that brought a great vibe. Super fun project and really happy with the end result. Have one more file from this project just as CGI intensive that hopefully is released soon. Used Modo, Blender and Photoshop for the post work. I'll make a portfolio and Behance posting after a few months showing how it was all put together.
Pro Dieting tips, the Danklife way...
You too can loose 9 pounds in 2 days by living as a pile of biomorphic goo on the bathroom floor why being lovingly held in the warm embrace of food poisoning. Just ask me how!
A bit behind here folks due to the afore mentioned lovely G.I. distress, bare with me while I play catch up on some projects. Seriously, the worst case I have ever had. On the bright side, this toast is freaking AMAHZING this morning.
New Work in the Wild: Primus
Matt Davis and Kyle Wiley from NonBox asked if I could lend a hand on some trade show exhibits for Primus. I thought the concept was awesome and hopped on board. Mulitple composites involved to make the backgrounds. Photography by Jelani Memory who did a great job on the lighting. You can see more in the portfolio or on Behance
Tech Pack main site live
The Nike Tech Pack website is live with all our post work. It all came together really well and they use the imagery in a great way. Very happy to have been involved in this one.
New Work in the Wild: Nike Tech Fleech
Andre Simmons from Nike asked us to help out with the Fall Tech Fleece product line and it went live not too long ago. We had over 300 images with crazy tight timelines but it came out super slick. Really had to do some interesting tricks do deal with that heather fabric.
Client: Nike NSW // Product Photos: Ryan Unruh // Athlete photos: Unknown.
Danklife on AdWeek.
The Jordan project we did with Ryan Unruh was just picked up on AdWeek. Always a good thing!
New Work in the Wild: Gorge.net Ad Campaign
Photographer Nicolle Clemetson ask us to help out on her project for Gorge.net and we happily gave it all we could. She is one of the few to be allowed into the danklife home base which is in the center of a dormant cinder cone somewhere in Oregon.
Starbucks Refreshers
This Spring I was approached by Dan Zimmerman at Big Giant to help come up with an Illustration for Starbucks new summer drinks. The Illustration was deemed too far out of theme with the motion project and was shelved fairly close to completion. I was quite happy with the work though and really enjoyed the project. You can see how it was made and more in my Behance portfolio
New Work in the Wild: Bicycling Illustrations Aug 20113
Jesse Southerland at Bicycling asked me if I would be interested in illustrating some bike review images for the Aug 2013 issue and it turned into a fun 3d study. He wanted a projection on the bikes originally, but then we slowly shifted to old school 70s style wall paper murals in room wholly generated in 3d. Lots of fun bits like hand painting in the tears in the wall paper. Great to see them half page!
New work in the wild: JORDAN BRAND AND BLAKE GRIFFIN LAUNCH SUPER.FLY 2
Portland Photographer Ryan Unruh reached out to me to do some post work for a Jordan project he was shooting and the results are now live at Nike Inc and Sole Collector. I went with a 3d solution to this request and really happy with the result.
New Behance work
In case you have not been to the Danklife Behance Portfolio recently, we added a few new galleries there. One for Nike in store imagery for the House of Hoops style and another for a "Workout" project for Sanford Health shot by Robb Long.
Annnnnd did it again! On AdWeek.
Once again we are featured on AdWeek! This was a awesome project we worked with Remco Vloon at Nike on. Lots of fun on this one.
Danklife on AdWeek
We made it into AdWeek's Curated Gallery again! This time with our a project we did with Travis Barteaux at Nike for their World Basketball Festival. Thanks to Travis for the the great direction and to the team here who made it possible.
Nike Air Max ‘Sunset’ collection goes live.
A project we worked on with Photographer Ryan Unruh, ADs Brian Foster and Remco Vloon at Nike just went live and is getting some press. We were asked to go for a very "real in studio" vibe on this project and I do quite like the outcome. Read up more on it at Size Blog.
Fun project, thanks all!
Adobe Jumps the Shark
Adobe has decided to focus its resources on Creative Cloud and will not continue development on its Creative Suite software, reports The Next Web. While Creative Suite 6 will continue to be supported in regards to bug fixes, there will be no further updates and no Creative Suite 7.Instead, the company has today announced several Creative Cloud apps at its Adobe MAX conference, including Photoshop CC, InDesign CC, Illustrator CC, Dreamweaver CC, and Premiere Pro CC.
There will be backlash for this, no doubt.
Adobe targets the same Pro and Pro-sumer community that Apple had the misfortune of knowing when it redesigned Final Cut Pro. Adobe’s decision to solely embrace a subscription offering could lead to mass protest if not handled correctly.
But before grabbing your torch, let us explain what, exactly, is happening — then we’ll get into why.
So this is just horrible. What if our internet goes down? We just pack up shop for the day and tell our clients sorry? What about those clients who let their subscriptions lapse? Now they can't open PSDs anymore to see the files and their decades old archive is "unreadable"? Pay a subscription to Adobe or your entire library is up for ransom? This is insane...
I'd say I'd just stick with CS6 but Adobe will not release new RAW camera support for older versions, trapping you in this upgrade cycle. Between Apple and now Adobe abandoning the WORKING professional markets where are we left to go? Someone smarter then me really needs to target working pros in creative fields not everyone can or wants to work off a damn phone people.
Patrik Giardino for ESPN
Patrik Giardino asked us to get this kind of look for one of his ESPN shoots and here it is in print. Great shot Patrik and thanks!
Looks much better then the other shots in the spread by other shooters but I miiiight be biased. ;)
Danklife Featured on AD Week again!
Looks like Danklife Retouching is featured on AD Week again! Awesome project shot by Mike Powell and directed by Arnold Worldwide for New Balance.
Thanks everyone for a great project.
Danklife Mention in The Portland Egoist
The Portland Egoist Gave a lovely write up of my March Madness Project done with Travis Barteaux as the AD for Nike in 2012.
There's something that we deeply love about the art of photo compositing. When it's done well it is a great mix of fantasy and reality. We hadn't seen much of the work from Portland-based illustration and re-touching crew, Danklife, before today. What we're seeing though we're digging. The hyper-realistic, fantastical nature of the work is what we look for in this type of work. The above illustrations were created in conjunction with Nike for last year's March Madness. The effects add to and heighten the already amazing physical nature of young ball players in today's game.
Awesome sauce! Link
Danklife on Adweek Talent Gallery
The New Balance Run Light Project shot by the talented Mike Powell made it to the Ad Week Talent Gallery today!
Check it out and all our other work on Behance.