Patrick Clair: Far Cry Primal “Rise Above Extinction” Director’s Cut
Stylized savagery circa 10,000 BC envisioned by director Patrick Clair, the design talent at Elastic, A52‘s creature FX team and DoP David McFarland thru Omelet for the Feb. 23 release of Ubisoft’s Far Cry Primal action-adventure game.
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Blasting Open the MTV Video Music Awards 2015
In stark contrast to last year’s darkly elegant vibe, the Elastic crew opened the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards this evening with this crazed poke-in-the-eye packed with glitchy, irreverent, ultra-GIF-able chaos plus a bonus Donald cameo. [Watch]
Stash 112: Dig Into More Brilliant Motion
A non-stop feast of design, animation and VFX, Stash 112 packs another 31 creatively and technically outstanding video projects into the Stash Permanent Collection along with great behind-the-scenes features and exclusive interviews with the designers, directors and producers behind the work.
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Patrick Clair Interview: True Detective Season 2 Titles
Turns out HBO’s critically acclaimed and relentlessly gritty True Detective series is an anthology. So if the cast, location and narrative arcs all change each season, how do you handle the titles – especially if you won the Outstanding Main Title Design Emmy for the first season? [Watch]
Behind the Scenes: 2015 Semi-Permanent Titles
Emmy Award-winning Melbourne designer Raoul Marks, most often found working with the Elastic crew and Patrick Clair, steps out on his own to create both the visuals and the audio to open the 2015 Semi-Permanent design conference with a sweeping and surreal film. [Watch]
Elastic and Antibody: MTV Video Music Awards 2014
At first glance, Patrick Clair‘s tasteful, minimalist and dark aesthetic seems a strange design choice for programming as crass and loud as the MTV Video Music Awards, but the contrast between packaging and content is just what this show needed to keep it from spiraling into a rabbit hole of hubris and inanity.
The title’s circular forms extended into the show content as they “exploded into vibrant, crazy generative turbines of color, form and movement – each a unique sculptural signature of the video they represent.”
Antibody and Elastic handled the design for the show’s branding and broadcast design. [Watch]