SELECT CLIENT WORK TURNER’S MODERN WORLD OPENING PROJECTION MFA x Black MathAfter finishing up Athena, the Museum of Fine Arts had yet another gallery they wanted our help with. The ask: a large projected video that will help museum visitors enter the headspace and atmosphere of Turner’s iconic paintings.
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Lots of ideas floated around, like fancy 3D particle systems, smoke, and many more things we didn’t have time for.In past projects, I had explored the potential of StyleGAN Machine Learning, and though this would be a great opportunity to try it out. Using hundreds of images of existing Turner paintings, we could run them through a model to create these abstract interpolations that held pure “Turner essence”
From there, we used a combination of ML interpolations and AfterEffects to create these immersive moving paintings.
OREO x FUNFETTI SOCIAL CAMPAIGN Havas x Black MathFrom initial concept art, to set design, wardrobe selections, and final comp, I was a part of every step of this wacky process. It was so much fun, and quite the brain teaser, to create these colorful sets where we these movie magic tricks were performed.
REEBOK CL LEGACY CAMPAIGN: Reebok x Black MathRole: Animation and direction of a small internal team to create a Director’s cut
Every year, the New England advertising community comes together for a night of celebration and a little healthy competition for the coveted "Best-in-Show" Hatch bowl. For this year's brand package, we took it back to basics—allll the way back to childhood—via a trippy visit to an imaginary kid's show about advertising. We created a friendly psychedelic world where our lovable characters followed an advertising idea up the ladder as it struggled to get realized, only to learn some darkly comic lessons along the way.