Art Direction for issue 1 of the Culture Trip magazine
Art Direction for issue 2 of the Culture Trip magazine “The Soul of Soho”
In case you find yourself in Toronto for a day trip or a short layover, here’s how to make the most of your 24-hour stay in Canada’s largest city.
Direction, Design + Animation - Michael Towers
Additional Design - Sam Peet
Music - Yukka
Creative Director - Giles Dill
Producer - Eve Somerville
Culture Trip creates stories that reveal what is unique and special about a place, its people and its culture.
Find out more here: theculturetrip.com/north-america/canada/toronto/
From the Hollywood hills to the Venice Beach boardwalk, Los Angeles is a cinematic city of dreams, a sprawling county with countless different landscapes to explore.
Direction + Design - Jola Bańkowska
Animation - Jola Bańkowska + Kathryn Leviton
Voiceover - Joshua Jackson
Script - Christine Kearney
Creative Director - Giles Dill
Producer - Eve Somerville
Culture Trip creates stories that reveal what is unique and special about a place, its people and its culture.
Find out more here: theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/los-angeles/
Walk down a 1000-year-old stone pathway as the sound of the Muslim call to prayer floats overhead and a queue of orthodox Jews in fur hats and Armenian nuns in full black habits pass by: Jerusalem is a must-visit destination for any lover of history, culture and tradition.
Design - Chu-Chieh Lee
Animation - Michael Towers + Ishmail Ali
Creative Director - Giles Dill
Producer - Eve Somerville
Culture Trip creates stories that reveal what is unique and special about a place, its people and its culture.
Find out more here: theculturetrip.com/asia/israel/jerusalem/
Over the last century Berlin has seen more changes than most cities. One of these changes, the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, was not all that long a go. From concrete blocks and barbed wire, to the Stasi and 80’s new wave.
Direction / Design - Sam Peet
Animation - Michael Towers, Ishmail Ali & Luke Marsh
Creative Director - Giles Dill
Production - Eve Somerville
Music - Yukka
Culture Trip creates stories that reveal what is unique and special about a place, its people and its culture.
Find out more here: theculturetrip.com/europe/germany/berlin/
On March 18, 1990, a multi-million dollar art theft was committed in Boston and today, almost 30 years later, at a $500 million value, it remains the biggest unsolved art heist in history.
Animation Director - Luke Marsh
Creative Director - Giles Dill
Voiceover - Deidre Cooper
Culture Trip creates stories that reveal what is unique and special about a place, its people and its culture.
Find out more here: theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/massachusetts/boston/
Created by London production company Nomint I was hired to design all elements of this surreal trip through the new Ribena campaign from start to finish.
Production Company: NOMINT
Director: Christos & Yannis
Executive Producer: Marilena Vatseri
From sushi to sumo, this film explores the wealth of things to do in Tokyo over one week.
theculturetrip.com/asia/japan/tokyo/
Design & Animation by Jola Bańkowska
Creative Direction: Giles Dill
Culture Trip creates stories that reveal what is unique and special about a place, its people and its culture.
Find out more here: theculturetrip.com
Get swept up in the story of one of Paris’ iconic citizens, the American Josephine Baker made Paris her home and changed stereotypes, entertainment and bananas forever.
Animation Director - Chu-Chieh Lee
Creative Director - Giles Dill
Voiceover - Ines Boughanmi
Culture Trip creates stories that reveal what is unique and special about a place, its people and its culture.
Find out more here: theculturetrip.com/europe/france/paris/
Dim sum and Dragons are just a couple of ways to spend a day in Hong Kong. What would you do?
Design by Michael Driver
Animation by Luke Marsh & Alexander Hellebaut
Creative Direction: Giles Dill
theculturetrip.com/asia/hong-kong
Culture Trip creates stories that reveal what is unique and special about a place, its people and its culture.
Find out more here: theculturetrip.com
The Golden City, or as most would call it 'San Francisco' is more than its booming tech empire and extortionate rents. You’ll find beaches to surf on, forests to glide over and sun to be soaked up with. This film showcases a few adventures you can have by the bay.
Design & Animation - Chu-Chieh Lee
Creative Director - Giles Dill
theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/san-francisco/
Culture Trip creates stories that reveal what is unique and special about a place, its people and its culture.
Find out more here: theculturetrip.com
Don't know your Camden from your Kensington? Listen to these voices of London tell you what makes this city such a unique and iconic place to visit.
Animation by Luke Marsh & Alexander Hellebaut
Design by Alexander Hellebaut
Creative Direction: Giles Dill
theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/england/london/
Culture Trip creates stories that reveal what is unique and special about a place, its people and its culture.
Find out more here: theculturetrip.com
Born and Raised in NYC: A Story on the Cyclone
A beautiful story, of life, loss and loop de loops. This film tells the emotional story of a woman's dream to ride the Coney Island Cyclone.
Design & Animation by Chu-Chieh Lee
Creative Direction: Giles Dill
theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/new-york-city/
Culture Trip creates stories that reveal what is unique and special about a place, its people and its culture.
Find out more here: theculturetrip.com
Following in from the Ribena 2016 campaign I was tasked to lead a group of artists to create assets and animations for an animated doodle app, whereby consumers are invited to doodle their world and make it more #Ribenary. Bringing the brand even closer to consumers.
I was hired to come up with characters for visuals for Ibiza super club Ushuaia. The aim was to create live action puppets and mesh these with motion graphics in a Jean-Michel Basquait style.
Director - Dan Sumich
Art Director - Giles Dill
Production Company - Passion Pictures
Honda - Band On The Run was a co production with Passion Pictures London and Yukfoo based in New Zealand. Directed by Dan Sumich.
Client: Honda (Model: Honda Civic Si)
Director: Dan Sumich
Production Company: Passion Pictures
Producer: Doireann de Buitléar, Emilie Walmsley
Agency: Rubin Postaer Associates
Snr VP Executive Producer Content: Gary Paticoff
Creatives: Nathan Crow, Adam Lowrey
Agency Producer: Phung Vo
Art direction: Dan Sumich, Giles Dill
Storyboard: James Duveen, Dan Sumich
Design: Ross Dearsly, Dan Sumich
Editor: Tim King, Klaus Heinecke
3D Animation & Post: Fortiche Post Production
Modelling/Texture Supervisor: Pascal Charrue
Creative Supervisor: Jérôme Combe
Creative Supervisor: Arnaud Delord
Modelling: Sebastien Fernandez, Nicolas Lucas, Damien Peinoit, Ian Brown, Matthias Bjurstrom
Layout: Yani Ouabdesselam, Guillaume Marques
3D Animation: Noella Lagnous, Guillaume Marques
Rendering: Damien Peinoit
Compostitor: Steven Lall
The Butterfly Effect is a short CG animated film Passion Pictures has made in partnership with Unity, the games engine developers using the new Unity 4.0 3D software. The film was written and directed by Dan Sumich and is a homage to the classic action films from the 1970s through to the 1990s, with a soundtrack by the legendary heavy metal vocalist Steve Grimmett. An ordinary looking guy wakes up one morning feeling the worse for wear and realises he’s run out of milk. As he drags himself out of the house to go and buy some, an extraordinary sequence of events draws him into a journey of mayhem on the streets of San Francisco.
It was my role as art director to world build. I had to create Unitys version of San Francisco, in our mind this was a place full of color, patterns and erly 90's skate culture. Check the gallery below for a few examples.
Two short films for the WhyMusicMatters campaign promoting the importance of using music services that pay the artists and everyone behind making the music.
I co directed the Bernard Butler film and supplied animation and artwork for the Beatles film.
