Twitter is an amazing source for information and inspiration. Most of the people I follow, and that tweet on daily basis, give out precious links that make me go “WOW!!!!”
Some days ago my friend and co-conspirator Kieron James did a RT and by is “Amazing!!!!!” before the tweet I knew I had to check it out. What I saw was a video clip on YouTube what had me go like “WOW!!!!” and “WOW!!!!” again. The video by Tony Tooke was supported by a remix of Yoko Ono’s “The sun is Down” made by … Tony Tooke.
I had to investigate this further: I mean, the remix already sounded great but that the same artist had made a video to go with it that also looked great made me very curious. So I tweeted with Tony and told him I wanted to know more. We exchanged e-mails via DM (he had to start following me and I had to start following him) and I asked him what was this all about: A remix from a Yoko Ono’ song, a video… how had we come to that? (What was really bugging me was how come I had never heard of him?). I also found out that the remix was a part of a on-going remix competition and queried Tony about it all.
Tony’s reply was amazing for its simplicity:
The remix competition link is here . The competition is still open and making a video was not needed to enter. Because of the creative commons license I decided to do an animation just for fun. I had been through a creative block for a while and wanted to do something to get back into creating. I used the lyrics as inspiration for scenes in the video and the 3D objects where drawn in 2D in Xara Xtreme and converted to 3D in Bryce 6. I used editstudio 4, which was free with a computer magazine a few years ago, to mix the animations and add effects.
I like to work quickly when I get inspired and work through the night often as I find my mind is more focused.
What Tony failed to mention was that all of this was done in two weeks. You heard me, two weeks! Human nature doesn’t stop to surprise and to inspire me. I know how frustrating it is to have a creative block and all of us, that have a creative job have different ways to deal with it. What never occurred to me was to use that block as the driving force to create again. It is my pleasure to introduce you the to work of Tony Tooke:
Picture Credits: Stefanie Doll under a CC License
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