James Bradley | pingomotion.tv

Pedro Fleming is a Designer Living in São Paulo, Brazil. He signs his work with Pingomotion. (pingomotion.tv)

Working with Motion Graphics in the last 6 years, currently works at Nitro Studio as a Art Director and Motion Designer.
Passionate about design and animation, He aways is available for freelancer, developing solutions for the most varied areas of this crazy art.
His free time is filled with personal work and experiments, with a lot of tea and cookies.

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Andrew Gill 
andrewgill.co.uk

Freelance graphic designer, Andrew Gill produces awe-inspiring motion graphics. He shows fantastic skill within his designs that are wonderfully exquisite and imaginative, making his ideas fascinating to watch.

ImagineThat

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Alex Cornell
www.alexcornell.com

San-Francisco based artist Alex Cornell has worked for a number of companies as a brand designer, his well-formed, well-edited videos and coherent, minimal logos display and parade Alex's impressive, composed design skills. Here is a talented designer whose abilities will continue to be recognised and appreciated.

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Jerry Cook
DESIGNER  //  FILM MAKER

http://www.theprettiestofplaythings.co.uk



Hello Jerry, how are you feeling today?
A little under the weather actually but it's nothing some tea & tv can't fix I'm sure.

Could you tell us a bit about your industry?
Well I'm not completely sure what my industry is exactly. I studied illustration but I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I do a lot of different things, costumes, film, photography, books, zines, audo stuff...it's whatever medium best suits the idea I have or how I am feeling at the time.

What's your latest project?
I have not properly started anything since graduating last month, I decided to let myself have a little rest after all the madness of finishing a degree. But my brains been working I have a few clear ideas for a new series of work I want to do based around the idea of fan culture, things with a real teenage vibe. I have found myself regressing lately. I have also been in discussions with a few people about doing collaborative work/collaborative exhibitions which I am very excited about. And a (kind of) musical venture called 'Vapid Slut' will most likely fill my evenings when my friends move in with me next month. There's a lot of idea's floating about at the moment, I am currently revamping my flat but once I have a clean tidy home in which to work I am looking forward to getting started on some new work.

What is the project you have done that you most enjoyed?
The 'Initiation Ritual' film was a lot of work as I did everything myself, making costumes, (including a laser etched leather hood and apron) gathering props, filming and lots of editing. But that was my baby I had the idea for a while and I really wanted to create a certain mood with it. I did a lot of experimenting making it and I learnt a lot. My friend's mum said "I feel like I shouldn't be watching it but I can't look away!" when she saw it, which was the biggest compliment ever to me.

What/Who inspires you?
I love watching old films and documentaries and the worse the quality the better. I like to watch something that seems secretive or lost in some way I get a lot out of that. I think this kind of started when I stumbled across this documentary called 'Satanis' and another one which was about snuff films. But before then I had always really loved 70's and 80's horror movies (good or so bad they are good) which I think have a similar sort of feel to them. Harmony Korine film's are a bit like that, he has some really old zines too. The whole celebrity culture really fascinates me as well, and serial killers. I also like to collect really awful and/or funny headlines or captions from newspapers and magazines.

What are your future aspirations?
I have done some costume work in the past for others and as part of my own work and this is something I am really looking to pursue. I am currently trying to gain some more experience and putting together a portfolio to apply to the BBC's trainee program next year. I'd really like to get into costume work for tv and film.

What advice would you give to students in creative industries?
Make the work you want to make and don't get too caught up with labels. It took me the first few years of uni before I realised I needed to stop trying to make work an "illustrator" would make and just do my own thing. And make lots of friends with people of all different disciplines because it's very useful and great things can come out of different minds and talents working on a project together.

Robert Savage

FILMMAKER

http://www.idlefilms.com/ 

Hello Robert, how are you feeling today? 

I'm very well, if completely exhausted - I'm a slave to coffee and

missed my fix this morning. It's an ugly sight.
 

Could you tell us a bit about your industry?

I am a midlands-based filmmaker who writes, directs and

intermittently shoots shorts, music videos and feature films. From my

fringe experience of the 'industry' I've learnt the importance of self

sufficiency, of finding a way to assert your own voice through the

racket of hopefuls. With digital technology so readily available, I've

found that there's no excuse not to attempt something big, ballsy and

legitimately insane in order to make a name for yourself. Of course

it's equally likely that I have no idea what I'm talking about - time

will tell.

  

What’s your latest project? 

I'm currently finalising the edit on my first feature film,

Strings, and prepping another feature that will hopefully shoot summer

2012. Strings is a dark relationship drama about a German exchange

student and a British boy's summer romance and the second feature is a

coming of age tale about dealing with loss (although not as morose as

that sounds).

What is the project you have done that you most enjoyed? 

Sit in Silence, hands down. It was wonderful, coming off a

comparatively massive project like Strings, to have just 48 hours to

shoot, edit and hand in a finished product. The competition provides

you with a title, a prop and a line of dialogue that you have to

include, so as to limit what can be prepared in advance - I loved that

so much was left up to chance. It was freeing in an odd way, although

I sincerely believe that, if we were dealt some of the bizarre

criteria some of the other teams had to adhere to, we wouldn't have

done as well as we did (the film came second overall, as well as

winning the BFI under 21's award) 

http://vimeo.com/26123164

Which project do you feel that you have learnt the most from? 

Strings. I learnt everything from Strings and I still can't quite

fathom how we achieved what we did, entering into such a large project

with such little experience - it was everyone's first major film, so I

think there was a great energy to try different approaches, even if it

didn't always work. I shot 65 hours of raw footage for Strings and,

although I'm hugely proud of the finished film, there was one good

film in the footage and about a hundred interesting failures.

What/Who inspires you? 

Walking, music and walking with music. Shuffle has written more

films for me than anyone will ever know. Obviously I watch a lot of

films, good and bad, and I think being film literate helps you

interpret the world differently, albeit in a way that can often be

distancing/wanky/infuriating for those around you - it's a fine

balance and I'll find it one day.

What are your future aspirations? 

I consider myself a features director first and foremost, so the

aim is to establish myself as a writer/director and amass a body of

work that I can take pride in and that hopefully people will want to

see - not necessarily in that order.

Where would you like to be in five years time? 

All I can hope for is to be able to work doing the thing that I

love with the likeminded, so hopefully the above answer will also

apply. Even if I find myself still climbing the slippery ladder - when

are we not in this industry? - I hope I can bring/find something in

every project that I can latch onto, whether it be a commercial or a

feature film.

What advice would you give to students in creative industries? 

Try something that you will later consider insane, just because you

don't yet know that it's utterly impossible - chances are you'll

manage to do it based solely on blissful ignorance.

Any other comments? 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qn3tel9FWU