Jeremy spent all day yesterday making us awesome new animations for the portfolio. Look for more updates to come in the following weeks.
Excerpted from How to Fly a Horse
Learning to say, "No" is probably the hardest thing to do in business and art. Here is some more reading up to help us all with that.
“Time is the raw material of creation. Wipe away the magic and myth of creating and all that remains is work: the work of becoming expert through study and practice, the work of finding solutions to problems and problems with those solutions, the work of trial and error, the work of thinking and perfecting, the work of creating. Creating consumes. It is all day, every day. It knows neither weekends nor vacations. It is not when we feel like it. It is habit, compulsion, obsession, vocation. The common thread that links creators is how they spend their time. No matter what you read, no matter what they claim, nearly all creators spend nearly all their time on the work of creation. There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.
Saying “no” has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know. We are not taught to say “no.” We are taught not to say “no.” “No” is rude. “No” is a rebuff, a rebuttal, a minor act of verbal violence. “No” is for drugs and strangers with candy.”
New Work for ConocoPhillips
The talented photographer Jamie Kripke brought me on board to help with some background rebuilds for a project documenting the new look of gas stations for Conoco Phillips. Really had to dig deep to build all these up. Lots going on here in the before and afters. Check them out on Behance or in the portfolio section here.
New Work in the Wild: Butler Bros "Real Good" gum.
Been a busy monkey here so I have not been doing enough of my daily CGI or postings here. Much apology, such sorry. But anyways, I recently did some CPG renders for Butler Bros out of Austin that came out really well. Getting the foil looking like that was fun to figure out. Check out the full gallery and read up on it at their site. Butler Bros Real Good Gum Campaign.
Adidas Winterize
Photographer Ryan Unruh asked me to lend a hand with the post and CGI for a project with Camp Grizzly for Adidas. The concept was to have weather changing and swirling around the photographs of the product. We had less then a week to concept, build, render and composite these files. A bit of a hectic week but very happy with the results. Used Modo and a few particle sims to render out the FX and sweeps. Assembled in Photoshop. On Behance.
Client Adidas
Agency: Camp Grizzly
Photographer: Ryan Unruh
CGI and Retouching: Daniel Kopton / Danklife.
New Work in the Wild:Nike Doernbecher
Proud to have been brought on board by Photographer Ryan Unruh to do the post for Nike Doernbecher, a pretty awesome charity.
"Twelve years later, the Freestyle Collection has raised over $11 million to help expand the hospital’s pioneering research, support clinical care, purchase state-of-the-art equipment, recruit new experts and subsidize the cost of care for families in need."
Did all the post and came up with the fun little CGI boxes to put them all in. Great shooting by Ryan made it easy to snap it all together. Check em out!
Shoot At Oddball Tattoo
So the last post was all about getting the Vivitars fired up and this one shows the results. Because they are so small you get razor sharp light on your subjects. Man, they are moody things to work with though. Moody but worth it.
New Work in the Wild: NIKE SOCCER WOMEN’S CLEAT PACK FOR 2016
New work released into the wild today. Nike women's cleat pack for 2016 is live on the Nike site. Shot by Ryan Unruh I built up the CGI stadium and grass. Few "out of memory" errors later and VIOLA, here ya go. Enjoy!
New Work in the Wild
Made a new illustration for Predator Friendly Records for their 2015 sampler. Fun little cassette tape piece.
New work in the wild
A project we did with Empire Green Creative for Riddell just went live. Bunch of images on insatgram as well. Look for it in the portfolio soon.
LaCrosse Boots- Extreme Tough
Posted a project to the Behance Portfolio that has a fun animated gif of the build. LaCrosse Boots - Extreme Tough.
Army- Tools for the job.
Just posted a new project to Behance. Photographer Patrik Giardino asked me if I would help build up some images for a United States Army project late 2013 into early 2014. Here are the builds that made it all happen. Great shooting by Patrik to capture all of this.
Client: Army
Photographer: Patrik Giardino
Post: Danklife
Kingwhale fabric Landscapes
Kyle Wiley at Eight Day asked me if I could shoot some fabric samples for him and make them look like landscapes while showing off different aspects of the material. Here are the results. Used my trusty Dedolights and tilt shift 90mm. Full Portfolio on my Behance site.
New Work in the Wild: ESPN Action
Aaron Hewitt reached out and asked if I could help build up a action shot for ESPN which just went live. Had to do a lot of work on that BG to get it where the AD wanted it. All CGI trees.
New Work in the Wild: Nike Instagram
Did a couple rush background swaps and tonings last week that went live already it seems. Weee!
Before on the left and the afters on the right of course.
New work in the wild: Pedialyte
The lovely photographer Thomas Brummett asked us to help out on a project for Pedialyte that went live today. It's called, "See the Lyte"
Car Illustrations for BPM and K&N
The fine folks at BPN asked if I could help out with some car illustrations for K&N. As someone who struggles to change his wiper blades I figured I was a perfect match! Lots of composites here and just a smidge of CGI. They let me run a little wild with some of the toning which was enjoyable.
See the full portfolio on the Danklife Behance site.
New Work in the Wild: BdRm Album artwork
Some album artwork I did was just released out into the wild. Jeremy Wilkins recorded some lovely instrumental piano tracks he released under the name bdRm. I really enjoyed the music and came up with this atmospheric piece that I felt meshed with the music well. The subtle branding was a bit daring to do as it is reaaaaaaaaallly subtle but once again, I believe that it echoes the subtle nature of the music.
You can get it on:
bdRm on iTunes. bdRm on This World is Against Me. BdRm on Bandcamp.
Work: New / Old work in the Portfolio
Bunch of stuff came out of embargo and I have been slacking on updating the portfolio so I build up a few more examples and posted them this week. Some older some newer. Made some fun gifs as well. If you have a sec go take a gander.
Work: Danklife featured on Adweek Talent Gallery.
The Nike Flyknit project we worked on with Ryan Unruh has been featured on the Adwek Talent Gallery as of today. Yay!