Brandon Blommaert: Client work and commissions

Title: Space Cadet

Type: Feature FIlm

Year: forthcoming

Client: Outsiderd Films

Role: Motion graphics

Summary: For this film, directed by musician/DJ Eric San (aka Kid Koala). I was tasked with designing and animating many screen elements for the film Working alongside designers Lillian Chan and Cori Merrell. We created so many of these screens that the team describes them as a film within a film.

More info here

Title: Deltron 3030

Type: Live Visuals

Year: 2023

Client: Deltron 3030

Role: 2D animation

Summary: Kid Koala, a member of Deltron 3030 reached out to me to ask if I could help create visuals for Deltron 3030’s live shows. We worked together to come up with a backdrop of a glitchy sci-fi interface that follows the themes of Del’s lyrical subject matter.

Title: Le Panoptique

Type: Poster

Year: 2022

Client: Panorama Cinema

Role: Design, 3D modelling

Summary: Poster designed for an online animation screening.

Title: Big Fight In Little Chinatown

Type: Feature film

Year: 2022

Client: Eyesteel Film

Role: 3D animation

Summary: Directed by Karen Cho, I once again worked alongside Fred Casia on this feature length documentary. The film focuses on the history and future of Chinatowns in North America and the pressures they are currently facing.

More info here.

Title: Why Is Europe So Hard On Big Tech

Type: Editorial

Year: 2021

Client: New York Times

Role: 3D Illustration

Summary: Illustration for the New York Times article by the same title.

Title: Speed Of Thought

Type: Feature Film

Year: 2021

Client: Eyesteel Film

Role: 3D animation, effects

Summary: 

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Title: Toronto Geometry Colloquium

Type: Poster design

Year: 2021

Client: Toronto Geometry COlloquium

Role: 3D Illustration

Summary:

Title: Hopeless

Type: Music Video

Year: 2021

Client: Ryan Bourne

Role: conception, 3D animation, directing

Summary: Musician Ryan Bourne came to me with a loose concept for a music video about a post apocalyptic world. We jammed on some ideas and I eventually asked my friend Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes (aka Shonee) to help out. Essentially I created the first half of the film, a grim apocalyptic fly over, and Shonee created the more colourful and alive world mad up of incandescent alien flora.

See film here

Title: Impossible Figures I

Type: Short Film

Year: 2020

Client: National Film Board

Role: 3D animation, 3D modelling, effects

Summary: Impossible Figures is a short film directed by Polish director Marta Pajek. I created many 3D environments and particle effects that had a hand drawn look. Marta then took these scenes and would add her own finishing touches to them to integrate them into her world.

See film here

Title: Vaccines Need Affective Messengers

Type: Illustration

Year: 2020

Client: New York Times

Role: 3D animation, conception, 

Summary: Animated Illustration for the New York Times article by the same title.

Title: The Orchid & The Bee

Type: VR project

Technique: Stop-motion

Year: 2019

Client: National Film Board

Role: Stop-motion animation, digital effects

Summary: Frances conceived of this amazing VR concept using stereoscopic stop motion animation. I assisted Frances with the stop moiton animation and also helped create special effects for the final VR peice. 

more info here

Title: The Junction: A-Trak & Nick Catchdubs

Type: Short Film

Technique: After Effects

Year: 2017

Client: Redbull Music Academy

Role: 3D animation, conception, writing, directing

Summary: Short film commissioned by Red Bull Music Academy & Booooooooom.com as part of their Junction series. This film follows a conversation between legendary DJ’s A-Trak and Catchdubs. I was hired to create a short film and I asked my friend and colleage Josh Holinaty to help me in creating this world. Josh provided many playful illustrated elements while I created the 3D world and animated effects. The turnaround on this was very fast, along the journey of coming up with the concept I landed on creating a contunous camera movement that would take us through the inside of the minds of A-Trak and Catchdubs, showing us their magical internal world. 

see full film here

Title: Sommets Signal Film

Type: Short Film

Technique: After Effects

Year: 2017

Client: Les Sommets du cinema d’animation

Role: 3D animation, directing, conception, 

Summary: In 2017 I was given carte blanche to create a signal film for Les Sommets du cinema d’animation. I created this short film about a character creating an avatar for a game. My main hope was to create something that would reveal more upon repeated viewing, by adding layers of obfuscated information in a very short timeframe.

See full film here

Title: How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media

Type: Illustration

Year: 2017

Client: New York Times

Role: animation, conception, 

Summary: Animated Illustration for the New York Times article by the same title.

Title: Please Prove You Are Not A Robot

Type: Illustration

Year: 2017

Client: New York Times

Role: Illustration, conception

Summary: Illustration for the New York Times article by the same title.

Title: Louise En Hiver

Type: Feature Film

Year: 2016

Client: Unit Centrale

Role: compositing

Summary: I was a pert of the compositing team on this animated feature by director Jean Francoise Laguionie.

More info here

Title: Will You Ever Be Able To Upload Your Brain

Type: Public art project

Year: 2015

Client: New York Times

Role: conception, 3D animation, 2D animation

Summary: My first animated illustration for the New York Times. Will You Ever Be Able To Upload Your Brain

Title: Ecostation 2

Type: Public art project

Year: 2015

Client: Edmonton Arts Council

Role: compositing, conception, photography, project management, sculpture

Summary:  After the success of my first project with the Edmonton Arts Council they asked me if I could create a new version for another new Ecostiation. This time I took landscape photos on the east coast of Canada. 

Title: Just A Reflektor

Type: Interactive project

Year: 2013

Client: AATOAA

Role: compositing, animation, digital effects

Summary: The interactive project, Just A Reflektor, directed by Vincent Morisset. Vincent proposed a concept to Google Create Labs to create a website where visuals on a website could be manipulated by using a smartphone like a controller. I was happy to help in the early stages to visualize the ideas of the creative team and occasionally suggest ideas. I also helped with compositing and effects on the final video output. The result was a very dense interactive video helmed by the AATOAA team.

More info here

Title: Synching Feeling

Type: Short Film

Year: 2012

Client: Jim Guthrie

Role: conception, 2D animation, sound design

Summary: Jim Guthrie commissioned this as a music video for a song from his soundtrack for Indie Game the Movie. 

Title: Fruithunters

Type: Feature Film

Year: 2012

Client: Eyesteel Film

Role: compositing, animation, visual effects 

Summary: This film by Director Yung Chang was no typical documentary. From the beginning they wanted to incorporate a playful approach to documentary, incorporating historical recreations, miniatures and animation. My colleague Fred Casia and I were involved early on to create animation, visual effects. We worked with many techniques, including stop motion, 3D tracking and 2D animation.

See trailer here

Title: Flux Outside

Type: Album cover

Year: 2011

Client: The Royal Bangs

Role: conception, photography, sculpture

Summary: I was asked by the Royal Bangs to create an image for their album the Flux Outside. They came to me with the idea of creating a French chalet and I ran with it, coming up with the idea of creating a cross-section diorama like world mostly out of paper. While I do a lot of work digitally, I wanted to challenge myself on this one do do all effects in camera. 

Title: Wildlife

Type: Short FIlm

Year: 2011

Client: National Film Board

Role: compositing

Summary: Summary: It was my pleasure to assist Wendy and Amanda with compositing on this film. Each frame was hand painted by them, but in some cases elements had to be meticulously cut out frame by frame and then composited together to create a full image.

See film here

Title: Ecostation

Type: Public art project

Year: 2010

Client: Edmonton Arts Council

Role: compositing, conception, photography, project management, sculpture

Summary: in 2010 I was commisioned to create 5 images for a public art piece. These 5 images were printed super large scale and affixed to the cladding of the Ecostation in Edmonton Alberta.

Title: Batmilk

Type: Short Film

Year: 2009

Client: National Film Board

Role: 2D Animation, directing, conception, 

Summary: My first professional film created with the NFB’s Hothouse mentorship program.

See film here