Lost & Foundish: "Love You Too" 2009 Compositing Test

If you knew me or followed this blog over the course of 2009, you'd know that I was very heavily involved with a follow-up video to my 2007 "All Over Again" video for the band Locksley.  There were costumes, a big handmade diorama with a marble river, two days of shooting... and so much more that I can't list in detail here.

Despite all the fun & hard work, an ending to the video was never officially decided upon by the band and has been on permanent hiatus since.  I'd like to thank everyone who donated their time (Pastor, Genn, Karen, et al.) and efforts to this project, I know there were a lot of favors done for it & nothing more to show at this time than the clip below.  It's a compositing test I did shortly after we shot the footage.

Love You Too - Test from Mark Phillips on Vimeo.

There were elements that we shot that we were going to add in later: cardboard butterflies, spinning flowers, etc...  if I ever get two weeks off and don't have access to videogames and have no other projects going on, maybe it will see the light of day yet.  Just don't hold your breath.   

Marked Animation: The Spring 2011 Demo Reel... COMING SOON

I enjoy compositing my face onto others' for the sake of a good demo reel.

That's right!  For the first time in two years I've actually managed to update my demo reel and believe you me (mostly me), it's like night and day between the two.  I'm not even going to provide a link to my last reel in this post for you to easily find out of curiosity.  You're going to have to dig for that pile of subpar Markness.  Unfortunately I can't post it publicly just yet as I'm still waiting for a few of the clips to clear, but maybe if you ask me nice and can keep a secret I might consider giving you a peak outside of the blogosphere...

UPDATE:  I'll be posting it to this blog from my brand-new Vimeo account tomorrow.

"Ci'iy Life" Music Video to be released Fall 2011: UPDATE

If you've been following this blog for some time, you'll know that I worked on & finished a video for one of my favorite hip-hop producers, Oddisee.  I've been super anxious to finally get the chance to show it off, but the other day he informed me via Twitter that he'll be shelving it until this coming fall when the weather starts to get a bit cold again, among other reasons.  I agree, it's definitely a winter video... but I'm sorry I couldn't share it with y'all sooner!  I did manage to submit it to a few film festivals though, so we'll see if that works out.

In the meantime hopefully I'll have something to show for myself in other endeavors!


UPDATE:  Nevermind.  Look for it soon!

Character Designs in Need of a Home

I whipped up these character designs for a paint-on-glass animation for work that never got off the ground. I like them quite a bit though, especially since I managed to combine two cat butts into the top of a head.

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I've been doing more and more illustration work in Flash lately and playing with a few different styles; if I can post more I will soon! 

I bought my first pen & inkwell yesterday.

Why it took me this long to drawing in this medium, I have no idea.  I love it.  What was I wasting my time with all of these years?

Bieberesque™ 

I think my linework needs a lot more work.  Going to work on that!  Work.  Also, I've been working on a lot of other things which I'll hopefully be able to post soon.  We'll work it out.  Stay... swooned.

Lost & Foundish: Concept Work for The Morning Benders

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I did this concept frame back in 2008 around the time I finished up the 88-Keys video for a group called The Morning Benders.  I was introduced to them via 88-Keys, who was a big fan and wanted us to work together.  Long story short -- I got the track, we passed a few emails back and forth,  I came up with a few pitch ideas and they never got back to me.  Ah well.  There are more frames and such I'd like to share but I think they could be used again in the future so I'll hold off for the time being.

They ended up getting pretty popular last year with their single Excuses.  Incidentally when I was writing this blog and looking at their site, I saw the video they decided to go with instead of my treatment.  Here it is!


The Morning Benders - "All Day Day Light" from Jack Ferry on Vimeo.


If only I had thought to dress them all aggressively hipster and then splash ugly randomly-colored text over the footage!  DAMMIT.  Real stupid, Mark!

Rebranding on the Way...

Lately I've been thinking about replacing my old Marked Animation logo with something a bit fresher.  Y'know... something that's not just the font of Century New Gothic with a bit of red lettering that I scribbled in the middle.  The truth is I didn't really like the original logo but thought it was a good placeholder until I came up with something new after I initially set-up & built the website in 2005.  Hopefully by the time spring hits I'll have completely revamped the site -- probably through the web publisher Cargo (my friend Mark Theriault has a nice one set up) but will still maintain this blog regularly.  I have so much more going on than when I left college that I can't keep my site 'up with the timez' anymore & considering I just updated it with "© 2011 MARK PHILLIPS" for the first time since '09, you can see my predicament.

I've never been much of a logosmith, but I like it.  Thoughts?

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Concept Work: The Tree of Analogy™

I did this concept art for an agency back in October of 2010.  It had something to do with the business/client relationship but I'm not sure about what company it was for or what the final product ended up looking like.  I wanted to see it through production but unfortunately I was in the midst of too many other projects.  There's never enough hours in the day.

Incidentally, if anyone sees where this ended up send me a link!

Marked Animation is now on Twitter

click on the happy creature to follow me.

Babyface.