Sunday, October 11, 2009

VIFF

So back at the start of summer I was asked by my friend Addy at TWBA Vancouver to illustrate a poster for the Vancouver International Film Festival. I don't think it ended up getting used for anything - but I learned a lot on the fly and had a ton of fun coming up with different images for it. Next time around I think I would handle something like this a lot differently. Doing illustration for advertising is something to really wrap your brain around and is pretty difficult. Huge thanks to Addy again though for providing the opportunity, and to good friend Andy Slater for saving my life last minute in designing/laying in the typography for me when my videocard exploded. On the brightside - another good friend of mine, Alex Mcleod had his submitted image represent pretty much the entire face of the festival this year with his poster (see below) that totally makes your eyes want to fall out of their sockets (as does most of his work - cause it's all unreal). Okay, enough name dropping check out those links!



8 comments:

Vanessa Maltese said...

yea yea yea!

good one pals.

alxclub said...

You should have been number 1
Dan! You still are in my heart, way before Shawn.

anjo said...

woo~really nice!
i like i like!

pete ryan said...

i really like the way the film is handled

eunice luk said...

what a big opportunity here! it looks great!

G said...

you guys is my heros

Daniel Downey said...

Thanks for the comments everyone!

Samantha said...

wwhaat! i can't believe yours wasn't picked! i love the usher guy, he's so cute ^_^ great colours and character design