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Ed Dye

AI is 14

Artistic Image had its 14th year in business this last september 15th thanks to all our great client that trust us with their work we love making every image.

Ferrari World Animations

AI has created several animation for the upcoming ferrari world in Dubai showing of the technology from the F1 put into their street cars

Cavitron dental shoot

Shooting at Atlanta Rocks for the upcoming Cavitron commercials and print campaign

illy shoot

out front of the studio shooting Dasha in a convertible for Illy's on the go spot Ken Soons directing Jason Maris who was the DP on the shoot

Artistic Image New Reel

BEN 10 fall 2010 graphics package

Ai just finished creating the 3d graphics for 8 3d animatiions to promote the new BEN 10 out this fall, we produced 6 bumps, two teasers, and an open. Their all modern, fun and have a syfy mystery to them.

Ai Selected to design the TNTLA 83rd Academy Awards

TNTLA has selected artistic image to design the graphics package for their airing of the Academy Awards. This will be our third year giving us a great feel for the show needs.

Thank you to TNTLA for trusting in our studio again this year.

2010 telly awards winners

2010 TELLY AWARDS winners for Artstic Image

Falcons DTD (JWT/Ford)

Falcons Rovion (JWT/Ford)

Trokar (5Stone)

Golden Globes (TNTLA)

OSCARS Packaging (TNTLA)

Movie CLub (TNTLA)

Greenies Shoot

Ai just finished shooting a heavy composite piece for Greenies combining two shoots in studio and at Gwinnett stadium.

Illy issimo on the go spot

artistic image signs on to produce a spot for illy coffee to promote their on the go coffee product, directed by Ken Soons and shot by Jason Maris artistic image

Connor under fire shoot

Artistic Image's Ken Soons and new hire Jim Roberson shot spots for boomerang last thursday and friday for Conner undercover and Tu Secreto.

Marc Dixon artist Representative

Marc Dixon Vertical Reps is now representing artistic image in the Detroit market you can contact him trough his website http://www.verticalreps.com/

or email marc@artisticimage.com

TNT Movie Club directed by Ken Soons

Ken just finished directing the second set of shows for TNT's Movie Club in both Spanish and Portuguese he is now in editing getting the shows ready for air before TNT starts production of the new shows this august.

New artistic-image font

a new font design from Ed Dye using the ai logo he created a bold and regular version artistic image font

Ford Screen Article

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JWT/ Retail First, and its client Ford wanted to create a standout campaign for this year’s Presidents’ Day Sale, so they returned to Artistic Image (AI), the FX/animation/production/editorial/compositing house that took last year’s highly-acclaimed “Ford Sync Universe,’ campaign from concept through completion.

The Presidents’ Day spot that featured six new Ford vehicles in a celebratory way, without incorporating predictable presidential imagery. AI assigned a collaborative team of creative problem solvers to the project.

Artistic Image designer/director/illustrator Ed Dye, developed a captivating concept. The hands-on cofounder of AI created animated footage of fireworks that exploded, shooting off red, white and blue ribbons, which created a showcase for launching the six new Fords. The commercial has three layers of cars bursting out of fireworks. AI rendered each car in each layer one at a time and composited it all together

Creative Director, Kirk Sieder, says “Fireworks was originally designed to be a Presidents’ Day campaign for Baltimore and Washington Ford Dealers, but once other markets saw it, that all changed. Several other markets, including New England, ran Fireworks as well. It was a retail campaign, for sure, but it has a “cool” factor to it that makes it visually interesting and entertaining. I can say that's true for everything AI creates. They consistently find ways to propel our ideas to a higher level, infusing them with smart details and complex design that make for a rich and sophisticated animated world. And they stay on budget!”

The “Ford Sync Universe” campaign was no less challenging. Artistic Image created, animated and produced a sequence of powerful footage touting Ford’s Bluetooth technology, which syncs up the on-board radio with smart phones to provide the driver with a hands-free tool for phone, email and text communications.

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“Our assignment was to communicate Ford’s groundbreaking feature to younger drivers,” says Dye, who also wears the hat of visual effects director at Artistic Image. “When we asked ourselves what young drivers like, video games came to mind and provided us with the genesis for the campaign.”

To bring home the spot’s message, “Sync Universe” incorporates complex animation of Fords driven by young drivers through a video game universe where deserted volcanic planets transition into sleek modern worlds.

Dye knew that Japanese style anime art would provide the texture and depth needed to take the campaign to the next level, so he explored the medium, studying the works of Takashi Murakami, the acclaimed artist credited with elevating anime to the level of fine art.

To produce the spot, Dye used a number of three-dimensional technologies. Maya was used to animate the cars, while ZBrush, an intuitive sculpting and painting application, enabled him to sculpt the drivers and create a road, which realistically cracks and releases molten lava. Shake and After Effects handled the compositing, which included 20 rendered layers and 20 more composite layers that integrated a diverse mix of visual effects and corrected colors.

When tallying up sales for the year, the client discovered that “Sync Universe” sold more cars in a month than any other Ford Dealers’ campaign during 2009.

Far Coast Theater Video Ad

This Video will play at theaters on the concession stand registers to give the awareness of the coffee's and tea's served in the theater.

Promax article

Revamped Artistic Image Launches in Atlanta

4/19/2010 12:00:00 AM

PromaxBDA

From left, Ed Dye and Ken Soons

Designer/director/illustrator Ed Dye and director/editor Ken Soons have partnered up with CEO Michael Zarrillo to launch Artistic Image, a new Atlanta-based hybrid design-driven live-action production, CGI, animation and character development finishing house.

“Our goal was to create a design-drive company where a team of top-caliber directors, designers, producers, visual effect artists, animators, illustrators, editors and compositors work under one roof with unfettered access to each others’ creative input throughout every phase creative process,” concur Dye and Soons. “Involved in each project from its inception, they work as a creative unit to develop their shared vision and create a final product that consistently exceeds our clients’ expectations.”

Zarrillo and Dye first partnered up in 1996, developing the first incarnation of the AI, a design and art services company providing the print industry with photography, illustrating, visual effects and retouching services.

In 2007, Dye began putting together a team of animators and CGI artists and investing in cutting-edge equipment for the creation of visual effects-driven television spots. Soons joined the partnership in 2008, and the trio has since conspired to take AI to the next level as the region’s first concept-through-completion live-action/visual effects house.

After a soft launch in spring 2009, the restructured Artistic Image officially launched its new brand in April 2010, with a new space located in West Atlanta’s historic King Plow Art Center.

“Our mission is to provide the ultimate resource for creative direction and execution with a top caliber team of talent that has cutting-edge technology at their fingertips,” notes Zarrillo. “Artistic Image has created a dynamic, visually exciting space with a level of support services and creature comforts that leave clients looking forward to coming back.”

About Artistic Image
Artistic Image (Atlanta) is a world-class creative resource where a collective of innovative live-action directors, producers, designers, animators, CGI artists, illustrators, editors, compositors, modelers and finishers take each job from concept to fruition as a collaborative team. Dedicated to the advertising arena, this hybrid company takes a design-driven approach to crafting high-end TV commercials, virals and broadcast design in a nimble, open-architecture creative environment that providing seamless workflow and an abundance of client services.

Ai Reel and Ed Dye Director reel spotlight feature

http://showreelarchive.com/

Mizuno Golf 30 second Spot

This is a 30 second spot we filmed and finished using the 7d canon for BooneOakley for the Mizuno golf USA site advertising thier new Shaft Optimizer golf club fitting system.

MIzuno Golf USA

These are frames from the Mizuno golf spot we put together for their new Shaft Optimizer club fitting system.

MLB Pitch Thursday night baseball

One of the style frames we submitted for the thursday night baseball show on the MLB network

Addy For Norfolk Southern Kidnapping spot

The Norfolk Southern Kidnapping spot got a bronze in non

traditional category of the Addy awards. We are proud to have been a part of this project.

Ai Oz Source book Tab 2010

This is an ad that will be on one of the tabs in the OZ magazine Georgia Source Book. Designed by Edward Dye and Jonathan Whiteside

Ai trade show graphics

These are three banners we had made to go up behind us for our trade show booth, Thier 8 feet tall and about 3 feet wide each.

Oz ad Back cover