LA Festival of Movies

Film Festival ยท 2023

The Los Angeles Festival of Movies is a film festival founded by Sarah Winshall and Micah Gottlieb. In 2023 they asked me to animate the logo for the first year of the festival.

The logo was derived from a halftoned book scan, and the challenge was figuring out how to animate the eye without losing it's photographic quality.

I started by filming a closeup of an eye and stabilizing the footage. From there, I used Example-Based Synthesis to remap the source-image pixels onto the moving eyeball, producing a halftone eye that blinks and darts around, but maintains the texture and personality of the original scan.

Client: Los Angeles Festival of Movies & Mezzanine Film
Creative Direction: Sarah Winshall & Alan Resnick
Design: Bobby Sheppard
Animation: Ian Crane
Actor: Alexandra Olderman