Emmy Nominated Futurist / Public Speaker /Creative Consultant. 25+ MCU films. Tech for iconic cars, products and more. Race car w kidseats. Host:
@thef1filespod
Extremely proud to present a (big!) case-study for our work on Black Panther.
Our
@exp_perception
team contributed over 18 months worth of concepts, design, pre-viz, & a 2.5min title sequence.
the full BLACK PANTHER case study:
EYE-TRACKING as an interaction isn't as intuitive as you would think...
Our eyes are BIZARRE AS HELL, and the magic and misdirection required to make eye tracking intuitive is very fascinating.
A "twitter thread":
So much love from
@exp_perception
in BLACK PANTHER!!!
we did:
-tech consulting, concepts & gadgets
-dev, design, & pre-viz for opening “prologue”
-dev & design for suit effects
-HUDs & UI’s galore
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST
- 2.5min End Title Seq, all set to Kendrick(!!!)
Gareth Edward’s The Creator was an absolute feast for the eyes.
My utmost respect to everyone involved in the
-production design
-cinematography
-costume design
-wayfinding gfx
-visual effects
-typography(!)
-clock-radio
-subtitles(!)
-vehicles
If I had one complaint…
After 16(!) years, I will be moving on from leading the incredible team at Perception.
Before I look forward, I'd like to look back at an amazing place that has truly changed my life...
Working on WANDAVISION was a string of awesome and insane opportunities:
☑️cinematic closing title sequence
☑️era-accurate typography
☑️Flawless replica of Family Ties title sequence
Huge thanks to our whole team and the Marvel Studios brain trust- keeping us on our toes!
Our final design montage for our work on
#WandaVision
is HERE! Our team designed opening titles, main on end titles, two unique Marvel Studios logos & product cards for the commercials for WandaVision. Full case study coming soon!
Watch the full montage:
Worth noting that WandaVision was our first project started & completed entirely WFH. Excellent collaboration amongst our own team and excellent collaboration with the
@MarvelStudios
team!
In the last 48hrs:
-ESPN + Pixar broadcast a live NFL game as CG Toy Story characters.
-Apple placed a bid of $2B(!!!) for broadcast rights to Formula 1.
Let's assemble some tea leaves:
WOOHOO— our Wandavision sequence received an EMMY Nom for Title Design!!!
Soooo proud of the whole
@exp_perception
team and the awesome people at Marvel Studios (23 Nominations for WandaVision!).
(Best MCU film) The Winter Soldier turns 10!
Was awesome to design Zola for this film, and weirdly prescient...
I'm still designing "presence" for A.I. etc, it's just a lot less fictional than it was back then!
Apple event, slick as ever
but SHOT ON iPHONE
Lots to unpack, and just cool to finally see behind the scenes of some of the most thoughtfully produced non-fiction out there.
An Unsolved Mysteries viewer has closed a case!
A store owner in North Carolina recognized Kayla Unbehaun — who was abducted in 2017 by her non-custodial mother — from the roll call in Volume 3, Episode 9. Kayla, now 15, is expected to return to her family in Illinois.
I 😢teared😢 up while telling Marvel Studios I would be leaving Perception before Wakanda Forever was finished.
Both Black Panther films made a huge impact on my and my career— they completely changed the way I approach creativity forever...
So excited to share the massive amount of work our
@exp_perception
team did on the epic new Hummer EV! Our team worked very closely with GMC to conceptualize and design forward-thinking UI for this very special vehicle.
Many details in our case study:
Here’s a montage of all the future-tech we created for
#spidermanfarfromhome
. It goes without saying, this one couldn’t have been done without an enormous amount of work + love from the whole
@exp_perception
team!
I'm almost tired of Singer Porsches, Safari Porsches, and retro vehicles in general. But dammmmn this Singer ACS is breathtaking. Love to see that Singer is mixing old school with 959, 918 & even Taycan cues. And Ford GT inspired cluster!
It’s been amazing to work with
@MarvelStudios
over the years— our modest contributions are always made much MUCH stronger by being a part of something so thought-out, so beloved, and so gargantuan. It’s the best possible thing for any creative to be close to minds like these.
The entire Perception team is thrilled to have been selected to collaborate with the incredible minds at Marvel Studios on the title sequence for
#Avengers
#Endgame
, and could not be prouder of our contribution to this cinematic achievement.
A few images of our Black Panther title sequence!
You can read more on our site about how
@exp_perception
's work conceptualizing Wakandan tech expanded into several gadgets and 2 animated sequences!
I hate needlessly fussy design, but the complexity of these virtual buttons (articulating wings etc) improves the experience, giving visual analogs for the tactile response of even the simplest real-world buttons. Rad.
Apple’s CarPlay ambitions may seem like a threat to OEMs, each invested in their own experience.
I’m willing to bet there are several OEM’s who are THRILLED to replace their own UX/UI and never worry about digital experience again.
I wrote this article about AI art for my friends at
@SchoolOfMotion
.
🤖 What is it capable of?
🦾 How do you make the most of the AI?
💀 is it going to eliminate human creatives?
🤯 ...and naturally by the end of the article I loose my mind
Does the digital revolution in AI-generated art have you worried? It's time to talk about it!
@JohnnyMotion
is bringing clarity & sharing:
➡️ How AI works
➡️ How you use AI Art tools
➡️ What it means for creatives today
🗣️ John, take it away ➡️
So honored to be a guest on the
@SchoolOfMotion
podcast. I’m a huge fan of how they are transforming education, and I’m counting on them to create the next wave of incredible artists that
@exp_perception
can utilize to design the future!
In the latest episode of the School of Motion Podcast, Joey sits down with Senior Designer and Creative Director
@JohnnyMotion
of
@exp_perception
to discuss the work they do on
@MarvelStudios
Films and in developing real-world technologies.
#vfx
#marvel
2021 is a big year here at Perception - it’s our 20th anniversary! To celebrate, we’re making a thread filled with some of our favorite work, creations, and designs we’ve done with
@MarvelStudios
,
@IBM
,
@intel
, and so many more awesome brands. Let’s get started!
Was awesome collaborating with Marvel Studios again for
#FalconAndWinterSoldier
A huge thanks to Marvel and the whole
@exp_perception
team for working so hard to bring this one together!
#FalconAndWinterSoldier
is here! How's everyone enjoying this awesome show? Our team at Perception had the honor of working with Marvel Studios and designing the main on end title sequence for this show! We can't wait for episode 2 of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier next week!
@AngusMacLane
And of all Pixar films, this one...
the most perfectly optimized medley of the sci-fi aesthetic:
Aliens
Macross
Star Wars
Eurostile Bold Extended (!)
These were the creative nutrients that shaped my mind growing up.
Some incredible efforts from many amazing freelancers, each of which blended effortlessly with our core team to make miracles happen in very tight timeframes.
@handel_eugene
@Sekani__Solomon
Alex Rupert
@kerrmotion
Nick Woythaler
Bhakti Patel
Anne Kruetzcamp
It's not typical to do a 'making of' film at the start of a project, but it's how we began the Spider-man: Homecoming title-sequence. The video below was the first thing we showed director
@jnwtts
. It earned his trust, and made the collaboration successful, supportive and FUN!
Modular LED wall panels often allow an easy, seamless front and back replacement of the tiles though specific magnetic devices [source of the gif: ] [more: , ]
Expecting todays Apple event to be much more “Newton” than “iPhone”.
It will a glimpse of how transformative this tech will be in the future, and a reminder of how far we still have to go.
And that’s still amazing.
So stoked to hear all the amazing feedback on Shang-Chi, and so proud of our
@exp_perception
team who worked very (VERY) hard on our little contribution to this super-fun movie
Super proud of the team for this one—
#MoonKnight
is a very different kind of entry into the MCU, and our team worked very hard to design a sequence that stands apart from our past title design work.
The time has finally come,
#MoonKnight
is here! Our team at Perception is honored to announce that we collaborated with the team at
@MarvelStudios
and we designed the end credits main on title sequence for this incredible series. You can stream Moon Knight on Disney+ today!
Alright, let's take a closer look at some of these pencil tests from Akira! Look at this amazing tracking shot! That tunnel! I bet a lot of folks assume this was 3D CGI but NOPE. It was hand drawn!
#Akira
#Akira30
#アキラ
#PencilTest
#2DAnimation
#Sakuga
For Black Panther we made this in-depth video to go beyond the typical montage and really show how our even our earliest ideas on the project blossomed over 18 months.
I want to meet awesome UX Designers!
especially designers comfortable w more unconventional UX challenges like:
-3D interactions
-UX + Industrial Design/Architecture
-technology as world-building for fiction
-solving the problems that don't have existing 'best practices'
WE'RE HIRING: UX Strategist & Interaction Designer to lead the development of user interactions for new projects starting immediately.
Send your resume and portfolio to careers
@experienceperception
.com to apply and join the Perception team!
Job description below
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Footnote: for years I’ve been describing references like these to directors as “glowing blue shit” in order to shame them into trying something different.
Dream come true talking to
@CarandDriver
!
I was a little kid obsessively reading C&D write about Countach vs Testarossa. Thrilled to see them covering our
@exp_perception
work on the Hummer EV!
#GMCHummerEV