Loaded Pictures News

Bindlestiff

caleb — Wed, 16 Jan 13 11:53:55 -0800

You know what we like? Beer. For the past three years, we have worked with professional brewers to make a custom beer that we get to share with our friends and clients. This year we worked with Don Webb, the fantastic brewmaster at Naked City Brewing and Taphouse in Seattle. We had some ideas of what we wanted and then we got out of the way and let the pro do his job. And this year's beer, Bindlestiff Winter Ale, is some malty and hoppy goodness.

Thanks to James Webber for the great video and to Brady Anderson for another great label.

nakedcitybrewing.com/

We're astrophysicists

chris borden — Tue, 11 Dec 12 12:52:41 -0800

Actually no, we're not astrophysicists. But Loaded producer Chris Borden is married to one. And in the world of astronomy, she's kind of a rock star. She's running a massive digital sky survey with the Hubble Space Telescope. The project is called the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (better known as PHAT). One of its many objectives is to classify the millions of stars in the Andromeda galaxy (also known as the "default desktop image of Apple OSX Lion"). To do this, she and her collaborators created a fantastic crowdsourcing website that lets anyone lend their observational skills to this endeavor. In the past five days, over half a million images of the galaxy have been classified by ordinary people who visited The Andromeda Project site. If you haven't tried it, we strongly suggest you get in touch with you inner-astro geek and hunt for stars, stellar clusters, and distant galaxies. And while you're in this astro mindset, check out the animated logo featuring the Whirlpool galaxy that Loaded made for our friends at the Haus der Astronomie in Heidelberg, Germany.

Palisade
Pieces of Palisade

mjc — Thu, 15 Nov 12 12:05:15 -0800

Sometimes, the ingredients that go into a recipe are as tasty and good looking as the finished dish. We kept that in mind as we created this study of one of Seattle’s most iconic restaurants – Palisade. Matt spent a lot time hanging out in the kitchen to learn about how they prepare their signature plates. From there, it was three days of shooting food, people, architecture, sunrise and sunsets.

Our friends down at Big Bang Electric set us loose on the project, entrusting us with making an art film out of artful food. It made us hungry. Good thing we got to eat all that sushi.

The Builder
Max Kullaway

mjc — Sun, 30 Sep 12 11:41:13 -0700

Not everything is crafted by machines in big factories. In a time honored tradition that values craftsmanship and custom design, Max Kullaway creates works of art on two wheels. A dynamic sculpture that takes you places in effortless style and efficiency. Matt spent a few days with Max learning more about how he sticks metal together with fire to make a bike.

Forza Horizon
E3 Trailer

mjc — Sat, 15 Sep 12 13:20:00 -0700

We just kicked out this awesome piece. In preparation for the release of Forza Horizon, the newest installment in the hugely successful Forza franchise, the Turn 10 team called on Loaded to add some polish to their E3 trailer. Accompanied by a dynamic dubstep track, squealing tires, and thundering engines, a sexy collection of cars take to the open roads of Colorado in a thrilling, authentic experience.

Sweetening in-game footage that already looks incredible required a unique approach of carefully playing with color and light effects, and was topped off with our blend of awesome sauce. But hey, we can’t give away all our secrets. Crank it up when you watch this one.

Capella University
"Why Go Back?"

jhdp — Wed, 08 Aug 12 15:20:33 -0700

With the recent struggles facing our economy, higher education has never been more valuable. In this 60 second animation, we explore the ramifications of returning to school, the inherent pressures and commitments, and the wealth of possibilities that result from rising to the challenge.

Group Health "Difference"

jhdp — Mon, 04 Jun 12 12:48:54 -0700

It’s always nice to find what you’re looking for. In this short brand film, we conceptually developed, designed, animated, and directed this illustrative journey of someone in search of a better kind of health care and finding it.

We were pleased to work directly with Group Health in developing creative and producing the content. Partnering with their marketing team to help bring the script to life, we embodied Group Health’s qualities as a health care provider into tangible and relatable narrative form.

Naked City: Behind the Scenes

jhdp — Wed, 21 Mar 12 16:11:35 -0700

We're exposing ourselves in this Behind the Scenes video of our recent work for Naked City Brewery.

This short video highlights the production process used by Brady Anderson to create our recent bumper for local brewery Naked City. After storyboarding his concept, Brady, Matt, and Jonathan shot the live action reference in an alley in downtown Seattle. Brady used the resulting footage to make a lighting reference from which he illustrated the final frames by hand.

Note: sometimes Brady swears. He's working on it.

Haus der Astronomie

jhdp — Thu, 15 Mar 12 14:08:39 -0700

Haus der Astronomie, the state of the art research and outreach center for astronomy based in Heidelberg, Germany, commissioned Loaded to create a very ‘big’ logo animation for their ultra high-resolution 360º planetarium.

Lead designer Caleb Van Winkle was forced to work blind in developing this unique workflow for the planetarium's enormous dome. Using photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, Caleb created a dramatic journey to the outskirts of the Whirpool Galaxy.

Naked City

jhdp — Thu, 15 Mar 12 13:16:20 -0700

Our friends at Naked City teamed up with the Seattle International Film Festival to host the official preview for Noir City, a 10-day festival honoring America's noir heritage. Loaded offered up this bumper to help kick things off.

Designed by Brady Anderson, the frames were illustrated by hand until they grew into a finished product. We're hoping to get some free beer out of it.