(www.calabashanimation.com)“>Calabash Animation, the award-winning multi-disciplined animation studio led by Creative Director Wayne Brejcha and Executive Producer Sean Henry has unveiled its new corporate website with a redesigned logo/branding. The sleek online setting highlights the company’s most recent and classic creative triumphs, while also showcasing their creative talents, services and impressive history producing award-winning animation for some of the world’s best known brands. nnIn addition to highlighting the company’s creative work and talents, the new Calabash site will also use it’s social networks on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and a new blog to showcase an array of original content and features designed to keep their audience engaged and entertained. nn”We’ve been planning the new website for some time now,” Henry says. “It’s clean, distinct design puts the focus squarely on the work itself, which is what Calabash is all about.”nnBrejcha adds, “At Calabash we understand the value of branding, both for our clients and for ourselves. The new site gives a sense of not only how far we’ve come as a company, but also where we’re going.” nnn
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Liz Charky Directs a Playful and Reflective Video For Henry Hall’s “Tiny Door”
Directed by Liz Charky, the music video for Henry Hall’s ‘Tiny Door’ is a playful and profound exploration of the song’s intriguing perspective on love. Silly moments and serious heartbreak are skillfully weaved together in a series of cheeky, dreamy, profound, and sometimes psychedelic scenes. “I am a huge fan of love songs that have an unusual, hyper-specific perspective on love,” says Hall. “That’s what I wanted to do with ‘Tiny Door.’ It’s about loving someone unconditionally while recognizing that love is something that isn’t always straightforward — I think that’s something we all attempt to come to terms with in our lives. I thought it was a unique yet universal detail about love and therefore an intriguing subject matter for a song. Even though the song is a ballad at its core, it still has a lighthearted sense of humor to it — that’s really portrayed well by Liz, and Ellin Aldana, our cinematographer.” Charky explains, “When I first listened to the song, I felt it was a love song full of longing with a kind of wishful melancholy. As I spoke with Henry about his intention behind the lyrics and sound, I was assured that I'd need to explore heartbreak in a nuanced way – with a degree of levity and playfulness. For me, falling in and out of love runs the full course of human expression. Love and heartbreak can be so emotionally intense and sometimes lonely, other times quite goofy or liberating. In developing the concept, I focused on both the literal and figurative ways that falling in and out of love might look like. So, you see Henry and co-star Franny Arnautou falling, flying, dancing, raging, winking, smiling, and... Read More