Are you getting ready for the unmissable creative meet-up of the year in London? We sure are! Our line-up is really shaping up to greatness and we’re already down to our 3rd batch of tickets. So if you’re still in doubt, check out this recap of the amazing artists that we’ll join our In Motion adventure!
✨ An artist that is brilliantly keeping alive innovation and cutting-edge-ness in music videos, Raman Djafari is an illustrator, animator and filmmaker working in both 2D and 3D, currently living in Berlin, Germany. Through colorful imagery and fragmented narratives they are hoping to reach into a realm of honest emotionality and willful fragility, creating surreal worlds and characters that oscillate between the familiar and the fantastical. They have directed music videos for artists around the world , collaborating with major labels like Universal, Warp Records and Downtown records. Raman is currently represented by the London-based animation studio BlinkInk.
✨ Cat Johnston is a director, character designer, model maker and illustrator. She has been in the industry for more than two decades and worked as a character designer for studios such as Aardman Animations and Passion Pictures. Cat’s work is mostly influenced by folklore, nature and childhood memories which you can tell when you watch her recent project aka her latest short film ‘The Wickywock and the JubJub Berry’.
Cat will join us in our sketch area for two days to create the most beautiful masks and visitors will be able to have a close look at her process!
✨ Form Play, formed by Mark Davis and Catharine Pitt, is a duo that combines a love of frame animation with hand-drawn character illustration. They have created animations for brands, including Google, Nickelodeon, Sephora, Comedy Central, but have become best known for their quirky storytelling and playfully scenarios. During this talk, Form Play will show how drawing, character observation and humor collide in their animations using Procreate and Procreate Dreams.
✨ Masterminds behind the In Motion identity and longtime friends of Playgrounds, BUCK will be back on our In Motion stage. BUCK’s client list includes Mailchimp, The New Yorker, Apple, Mastercard, IBM, Childline, Cadbury and Nike among others. During the talk they will take us back to the fundamentals and foundations of Motion/Animation. Two of their ACDs and Animation Directors, Joe Brooks and Daniel Rodrigues, will immerse us on a wild ride through the process of some of their recent projects.
✨ Maxime Manga is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist based in Cameroon. His creative journey started when he stumbled upon the work of Magdiel Lopez. Deeply inspired, Maxime trained himself and developed his own distinctive visual language defined by rich colors, bold storytelling and symbolism. Maxime has since with major brands and artists such as Procreate, Adidas, The Academy, The New Yorker and Ms. Lauryn Hill. During In Motion, Maxime will talk about imperfections: the mistakes we make, how they shape who we are and define our visual identity.
✨ They made the impossible possible and brought all four band members back together on stage during the trailblazing animated fable: the ABBA Voyage Show. SHYNOLA are the self-proclaimed weirdos behind mesmerising music promos for Blur, Coldplay, and Radiohead, among others. Recently, they enchanted audiences with the Sports Emmy-winning ‘For Mexico For All Time’ which premiered UFC 306 during Riyadh Season Noche UFC, dazzling audiences on the world’s largest screens at Sphere Las Vegas.
The talk of Shynola is made possible by their representatives at Nexus Studios, an award-winning global studio in film and experience design.
✨ We’ll also welcome Builders Club – a global Creative Studio founded by director Jonas Hegi and Julien Simshauser. Their very first short film picked up a Young Directors Award in Cannes, the duo was shortlisted for the ADC NYC Young Guns award for their body of work and their films were crowned with several awards and nominations.
The studio works with brands and agencies internationally to create meaningful work. During In Motion they’ll dive into the process behind the work they do at Builders Club and talk about things that matter during the creative practice.
✨ For those fearing the opposite, we can also confirm David Wilson AND his friends will return to In Motion London with another closing act. Wilson is known for his music video work, from animations for Arctic Monkeys iconic video ‘Do I Wanna Know’, to live action videos for Tame Impala, Arcade Fire, Lady Gaga and Sia.
Are you ready to dive into their artistic universes? Secure your tickets (if you haven’t done so already)!