The Brilliant creative team blog

Everyone knows of Red Bulls ability to put on an awesome event from the Soap Box Race to the Air Race but did you know they put on break-dancing battles, nope me either.

Hamburg based agency Sehsucht has put together this amazing animation to promote the event with an incredible style and execution.

This is an absolute new favorite of mine, It’s beautifully produced, shot in such a way that makes you feel part of the scene and want to grab a skateboard to get involved... not only that, It includes probably the sweetest skate park I have ever seen, awesome costumes and tricks, people stacking it and, oh yeah, fireworks in a tunnel! The guys and girls in Vancouver certainly know how It’s done.

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A beautiful short animation from Tom Jenkins at Theory Films with a very creative use of Google Street View and some of his desk toys... I kind of feel bad for my own desk toys now!

Accompanied by music from the amazing Cinematic Orchestra, I truly feel grateful for my freedom.

This is possibly one of the weirdest music videos I have seen since the Apex Twins ’Come to Daddy’ video!

It’s a wonderful concept, extremely well produced and involves monkey men playing instruments... what more could you ask for.

This is a nice little video with 29 ways to stay creative.

So if you are ever stuck for ideas or inspiration simply follow the video, cram as many in as you can and your creative block will be lifted!

Brilliant HQ has been a hive of mega busy activity over the last two+ months and I have had no time to browse a single scrap of internet... and this is my excuse for neglecting my blogging duties.

With so much to catch up on and so much cool stuff to be seen and shared, it’s tough to decide what to start with.

This series of videos by Kirby Ferguson is called Everything is a Remix which explores copying, sampling, tweaking, thieving and general inspirational homages within the nature of ideas and creativity... fun right!

These short films are extremely informative, nicely created and will probably blow what you thought to be ’an original concept’ out the water.

Visit the EVERYTHING IS A REMIX website to see the other parts.

I have really started to ’fall in like’ with Adobe After Effects, especially because I can easily animate my style effectively with info style illustration and typography. After completing A Brilliant Retrospective I started looking around to see what others are producing and found this gem of an animation... inspiration over load!

The animation focus is on a single woman living in rural Kenya. Now whether this woman exists or not is irrelevant to the story which highlights the struggles of making a living and how a half-acre tree farm can change a woman’s life. Not only informative but a little emotional too.

Enjoy.

Liquid - Sweet Harmony

This video sparked off something amazing for me back in 1992 (wow, that really is a long time ago) as well as the memory of being berated by my parents for calling up The Box video channel to view it more than ten times. Watching this for the first time led me to the decision that I wanted a career that involved being creative.

I didn’t know how anyone could produce something so inspiring or what the job title would be of this awesome creator, but I wanted in. Knowing what you want to become at the age of eleven even in today’s society seems pretty crazy but I was awe struck, and not just by the messages, the pretty girl, location or the tune itself, it was the combination of audio, video and typography working together to form something bigger.

Watching it 19 years on it looks rather cheesy and shabby in places but it still gives me the overwhelming feeling of unlimited possibilities and the passion to explore them.