Some of my favorite motion pieces from the past few years.
Music by Jain "Makeba (Dirty Ridin' Remix)"
Branding for a television network.
The European Super League pits together the best teams and players in the world who give that extra bit of themselves—going further than the opposition to win.
It’s about how you have to S T R E T C H for the ball or reach for the player. You have to give the last bit of yourself to beat your opponent.
Credits
Concept, Design, Animation: Sam Jones
Poster and social media animation for Terry Irwin lecture.
Based off of Fritjof Capra’s book Web of Life, our goal was to show how everything in nature is connected and works as a system. The words and letters in the ground are absorbed by the plant’s roots. They travel through the stem and then leave the plant as seeds which are picked up by insects and fed back into the ground. The cycle then repeats itself.
Our making process illustrates nature’s ability to create order out of chaos. We achieved this by allowing the typography to be placed freely on the page, not overthinking where each letter was stuck.
Credits
Concept, Design: Sam Jones, Makena Janssen
Animation: Sam Jones
End tag styleframes for Jeep.
The Jeep Wrangler escapes from the busy, stressful city and into the freedom of the outdoors. For this end tag, the grille on the front of the Jeep is used to show the journey that is taken.
Three options were explored before going with The Great Escape concept.
Credits
Concept, Design: Sam Jones
Poster and social media graphics made for visiting artist lecture series at CalArts featuring Bijan Berahimi.
We wanted to achieve two main things with the graphics… to show Bijan’s fun, positive personality, and to illustrate the importance process plays in his design making.
Credits
Concept, Design: Sam Jones, Makena Janssen
Animation: Sam Jones
Type Specimen Book made for the typeface Clarendon.
Credits
Design: Sam Jones
Show Package for CalArts and Hongik University annual Winter Motion Show.
20 students from Hongik University visit CalArts for an intensive motion design workshop taught by Michael Worthington, Carsten Becker, Jaime van Wart, and John Robson. The workshop culminated with a screening of all their pieces, open to the entire school and the public, at CalArts' Bijou Theatre.
Show package consists of a poster, opening title, 24 animated gifs, 20 animated student title cards, and end title.
Credits
Concept, Design, Animation: Sam Jones, Huicheng Wu, Xiyu Deng, Alexander Cheng
Green Book film-title styleframes. Created in a 4-day workshop with film-title designer Manija Emran.
The duality in the film is shown through the imagery and signs of segregated America merged with 1960’s jazz record covers that use shapes to symbolize music. This represents the humor in the film between the two main characters that surrounds a very serious topic.
Credits
Concept, Design: Sam Jones
A look at what it takes to be creative, and the strange habits that some of the most creative people to have ever lived had.
Semifinalist
Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2016
Credits
Concept, Writing, Design, Animation, Sound: Sam Jones
ORIGINAL SCRIPT:
I spend a lot of time thinking about what it takes to be creative, and why some people are more successful at creative thinking than others. I decided to look back at history to some of the greatest creative minds of our time…
Some creatives prefer the early morning to do their work. Beethoven rose at dawn to his breakfast of coffee. He would count exactly sixty beans one-by-one for each cup. Hemingway, would wake up at 5am and lock himself in the privacy of his own room to do his writing, with only his six-toed cats allowed inside.
While Sigmund Freud, on the other hand, was more of a night owl when it came to his creative thinking. He would come up with ideas while roaming the streets of Venice. Marching along at a terrific speed and puffing away at his cigars.
Steve Jobs enjoyed coming up with new ideas by dangling his bare feet in the toilet, while Yoshiro Nakamatsu (inventor of the floppy disc) would dive deep under water until his brain was deprived of oxygen, then write his ideas on an underwater sticky pad.
Sometimes it’s all about not being afraid of taking risks. This was one of Einstein’s greatest strengths. He wasn’t afraid of failure. He was an avid sailor, yet he didn’t know how to swim. For the years that he summered in Nassau Point, residents would repeatedly have to rescue the scientist after he sailed his dinghy “Tinef” (Yiddish for “junk”) into troubled waters.
Ultimately, it’s up to us all to find the creative habits that work best for ourselves. Kurt Vonnegut put it best when he said: “Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
Video made to show the process of creating jewelry.
Credits
Directing, Cinematography, Editing: Sam Jones
Jewelry Design: Karen Kriegel
Cinema 5000 is a fictional race between various famous cars from films. The cars and their drivers pit their wits against each other to see who is the ultimate racing champion.
Credits
Concept, Design, Animation: Sam Jones
BRAND VALUES:
Fun and Entertaining: The race is about entertainment and pitching unlikely opposition together.
Speed: In this race speed is king.
Innovative and Original: Strive to offer something truly original to the audience.
Competitive: The race is all about the competition between the drivers and their cars.
Personality: Value the personality brought to the brand through the characters of the cars.
