The stop-motion animation for “Love Is Making Its Way Back Home” uses photographs culled from over 12,000 pieces of construction paper to animate a nighttime drive. A team of nearly twenty artists, editors, directors and product assistants ushered the video into being. The group started with storyboarding and computer animation before converting the digital graphics to paper cutouts (frame by frame), photographing those 12,000 cutouts and then stitching them together into four minutes of paper animation.
 

The video you see in the end is purely physical frame by frame animation. Everything you see is photographs of paper with no effects whatsoever. One of the most challenging parts of making the video was looking at the computer screen during the pre-animation phase in rigid black and white with no shadow or depth, and trying to visualize how it would later look and work as paper in 3D space.
 
We had to determine ahead of time which images to cut as positives or negatives, how to anchor the cutouts to the paper frame that surrounds it so the pieces wouldn’t fall out, and a host of other problems.

The final stage was photographing – good old stop-motion animation done at 15 frames per second. The frames were hung vertically from hooks in 23 rows, row 1 being closest to the camera, row 23 farthest away. The rig was setup in our makeshift cave of thick black blankets hung from the ceiling to keep out all light. The paper scenes were then lit from the front and below, and photographed with a digital still camera on a tripod.

 

 
 
Director : Erez Horovitz
Concept : Sam Cohen + Erez Horovitz
Illustrator : Sarah Graves
Text Illustrator : Savannah Wolf
Lead Production : Marlie Pesek + Eric Giordano
Photo Editor : Felipe Sanchez
Technical Director : Ali Mohammed
Grip : James Wells
Production Assistants : Paige Ellis, Jacqueline Geisheimer, Angelina Zhou, Jesse Ashcraft-Johnson, Jovin Cronin, Faizan Ahmed

On top of beauty  the house is also largely self sufficient. It has its own rainwater tanks, solar hot water and electrical panels and a energy efficient passive design.

Tim combines traditional brush and ink work with considered limited colour palettes added digitally.

Tim’s distinctive style has been in constant demand and he has garnered an impressive list of clients including, Wired magazine, Computer Arts magazine, Creative Review, Vodaphone, Don’t Panic, Dutch Uncle agency and &&& agency.

Chosen as one of the exhibitors, you can see Tim’s work at this years Pick Me Up.

To see more work, www.mcdonaghillustration.com 

Follow Tim on Twitter,  @timmcdonagh

The wallpaper for Other Focus was a great way of externalising my thoughts and research on geometric communication throughout my semester.

More of  Louis White’s work can be found on his website www.cargocollective.com/eagleandtrainer or you follow him on Twitter @LDDelany

If you would like to see your wallpaper on OtherFocus submit it to us by clicking the submit button to the top right.

Danielle Davis has got a MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art where she got her love for hand lettering, typography and illustration. As you could imagine, her work consist of beautifully illustrated hand lettering, check it out for yourself!

More work of Danielle can be found on her website www.danielleishere.com or on Dribble.

Jen Mussari

Jen Mussari is an illustrator from San Francisco. She also incorporates typography in quite some works, including the following.

More of her work on www.jenmussari.com or follow her on Twitter.

Elizabeth Baddeley

Elizabeth Baddeley is an illustrator from New York, she is currently studying illustration after having completed her studies in Visual Communication.

Find more of Elizabeth’s work on her website www.ebaddeley.com
Also follow her on Twitter @BizBeth

If you are interested in the process of creating a font, you can have a look at WIP and give feedback after testing the beta versions of the fonts.

Check out these beautiful fonts by Impallari.com!

Kaushan Script

The Cabin Font

Qattrocento Roman

Dancing Script

Terminal Dosis

Check out the previous articles:

• Free Typefaces – Fontfabric | OTHER FOCUS
• Free Typefaces – The League of Moveable Type
• Free Typefaces – Lost Type

You might wander how he creates those artworks? Well here’s a video of the creation of one of them.

Let’s Stick Together

and pimp street lights around the world with tape art

Let’s Stick Together is a project created by Max Zorn. The mission of this project is to get tape art on street lights and windows all over the world. YOU can help him with that, you can mail him at maxzorn.artist@gmail.com and with a little luck you’ll get a beautfiul piece of tape art send to your address. You can also support him by donating to him, by certain amounts of money you’ll get a tape art send to you! Read all the details of the project and on donating to him on this page.

Max Zorn putting his work out there. He makes the streets his personal museum!

More work of Max Zorn can be found on his website www.maxzorn.com,
his Facebook or follow him on Twitter @maxzornartist

An internal and otherwise never seen space filled with external objects; a gas lamp, a pair of compasses and the mechanised workings of a film projector nestled in amongst the fibrous and sinuous tissues of the muscles, ligaments and skin.

This surrealist account of the human body,  that melds the organic with the inorganic, saw Yoshida chosen as a finalist in the 2010 Adobe Design Achievement Awards illustration category.

Photographs of taxidermy specimens are subtly overlaid with illustrations of the inner skeletal structures of mammals, perfectly highlighting the inner complexities of mammalian life.

To see more, www.wataru-yoshida.com