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(02b / Creative Direction) · D&AD · 2018

New Blood Festival

Motion Designer

Three motion pieces for D&AD's New Blood festival, built on a rebuilt-from-scratch 3D gradient brush-stroke identity.

01 / The brief

Three motion pieces for the New Blood festival: the invite promo, the Academy promo for the two-week intensive I had attended as a student four years earlier, and the closing film. One identity, three jobs, one festival to make look worth showing up for.

02 / The approach

The year's identity was a 3D gradient brush-stroke system with no production files to hand off, so I recreated it from scratch in Cinema 4D and After Effects. From there I cut in student work and attendee voices, letting the festival speak in its own footage rather than over it.

03 / The outcome

Three films that share one visual language and still each do their own job: sell the invite, sell the Academy, send everyone home wanting next year.

Role

Motion Designer

Tools

  • After Effects
  • Cinema 4D

Year

2018

Academy promo, the two-week intensive told from the inside
Closing film, student work and attendee voices cut to the identity