It’s been a while since I’ve created any videos or animations. My work is more focused on product design, but once in a while I like to work on “weekend” projects.

This one took me 4 weekends to finish. It started with a simple idea I had a couple of years ago. I didn’t know it would give me some much trouble. Animating each one of the 361 words that form this song was not an easy task.

Mathematics is a song released in 99 from Mos Def. It hit me when I first heard and it’s still one of my favorite tracks. The video represents the ideas behind the lyrics. My goal was to work only with text and an occasional icon to make it as simple as possible.

If you haven’t heard this song before visit your favorite media shop and buy it. The album is called “Black on Both Sides” and is definitely worth it.

After I published my architecture illustrations here I received a lot of e-mails asking how I did those images. I prepared a tutorial for Smuzi to give you some tips about coloring sketches and adding effects. It’s pretty simple and very useful for architects and designers.

Visit Smuzi to read the tutorial.

I’m working on a new video for Vulto (yoyoing and skill sports company) to be released in a couple of weeks. It’s a collection of yoyoing, skate, bmx, juggling and many other sports. The video is really nice, aggressive and very entertaining (specially if you are a sports fan).

The best thing of this job is that we have have no limits and face no censorship at Vulto. The company is very open-minded, and since it works with sports we can push some boundaries when editing the video. We are using many different songs, from metal to downtempo, which is good for a music addict like me. We are also keeping it very simple. Our goal is to work  without many effects or corrections to keep the video as original as possible.

Yesterday Vulto released the first preview of this upcoming video. Enjoy!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=305quosC4O8