00Frame by frame
01Dead Comics SocietyBrand Identity + Event Identity02Club TattooIllustration03Haystack WinesBrand Identity + Packaging04Museum of FailureExhibition Branding + Experiential052B FarmingBrand Identity + Photography06Rabbit Hole WinesBrand Identity + Packaging07Tame ImpalaPoster Design + Illustration08Ashwood Tattoo StudioBrand Identity09Selected Experiments3D • Sculpture • Fabrication
Index — Selected WorkDEF Studios, Portland OR
01Album ArtCovers in motion02Key ArtCampaign key frames03Show PostersGig + event prints
Index — All GalleriesDEF Studios, Portland OR
DEF Studios · Animation Portland, Oregon

A single frame can hide. Twenty four a second cannot.

Music videos, loops, and title work, drawn rather than tweened. One piece on the wall so far, with the rest close behind it.

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01 · Why animate

Illustration that has to survive being moved.

A still image gets to choose its one good moment. It holds that pose for as long as anybody looks at it, and every decision in it was made in service of that single instant.

Animation takes the pose away. The drawing has to keep working through every frame on either side of the one you would have picked, which means the parts that were only ever holding still for the camera get found out immediately.

What is here is the work that earns its motion: pieces where moving is the idea rather than a finish applied to something that was already done.

01On the wall
05In the queue
24Frames per second
2:19Longest timelapse
02 · The work

Finished pieces, and the drawing of them.

01  /  Music video

Yellow Gold
Diamond Fire

A long car, a long road, and a sun that never quite finishes going down.

Open the case study Riley Geare · Great Vacation
03 · How it gets made

Nothing here was generated.

Every frame in this wing was drawn, which is slower than the alternative and is the entire point. The timelapse on the Yellow Gold Diamond Fire page is the whole build, start to finish, at speed, and it is there because a finished piece never shows you where the work actually went.

If you want the short version: it is the same hand that does the branding and the posters, holding still for a lot longer.

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