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on December 13, 2021
From the release: Artjail is capping a busy year with a spate of new creative hires. The studio, with offices in New York and Toronto, has tapped Matt Greenwood as its new Design Creative Director. Further bolstering its creative resources, it’s also named Jonathan Lee and Weichieh Yu as CG Leads. [Watch]
Matt Greenwood, animator, motion designer, and creative director at Nice Shoes in Toronto on his new personal project debuted at Pictoplasma 2018: “I made Final_Final with no script or planning. Each day I picked up where I left off and it evolved into a cast of shiny characters.” [Watch]
Toronto motion veteran Matt Greenwood recently published his personal homage to design, “because even though I have been working as a designer for many years, I still love the process.”
STASH: After carefully laying out the elements of design you end with the advice to “just move things around until they feel right.” Was this intentionally contradictory or cheeky?
Matt Greenwood: The line “Just move things around until it feels right” (with a subtle emphasis on “feels”) was intended to suggest that learning the rules is important, but for me at least, using intuition is essential. I also wanted to hint at breaking these rules shouldn’t be off the table.
It may come across as dismissive, but it was intended to be more of a encouragement to not get caught up worrying if the established formula is correct, because I think visual aesthetics can be subjective. [Watch]