Mark Coleran Visual Designer

Interviews & Discussions

01.2010 CBC Spark – Mark Coleran on Fantasy User Interfaces
Interview with Nora Young on CBC Radio One, Spark.

01.2010 NPR, All Things Considered, Telling A Story In A Flash.
Interview with Petra Mayer on NPR’s weekend edition of All Things Considered.

10.2009 Motionworks: Unplugged interview with John Dickinson
Had a great time talking with a good friend, John Dickinson for his Uplugged series of creative and developer interviews. John also runs the excellent Motionworks blog.

06.2009 Venture Beat interview with Dean Takahashi
Had the pleasure of talking with Dean Takahashi when I was down in S.F. a short while ago for the S.F. Mograph user group meeting.

05.2009 Scott Barnes at Mossyblog
Interview with Scott Barnes, Rich Platform Product Manager at Microsoft.

02.2009 FX Mogul
A chat with Stephan Dube for FX Mogul.

10.2008 Motion TV
Discussion with Becky Padilla and Elaine Montoya. Organizers of the excellent Motion conference in Albuquerque.

11.2007 How sci-fi influences today’s gadgets
Brief mention and reference to the past work in a short New Scientist technology blog.

06.2007 Long Zheng at “I Started Something”
Discussion with Long Zheng about the desk top computer realized in the Michael Bay directed film, The Island.

01.2010 The Escapist
Meet The Designer of Fake User Interfaces

01.2010 Creating Motion Graphics Blog at Pro Video Coalition
User Interface Design for Hollywood

01.2010 Gizmodo
Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them

Mission Impossible 3

Production: Mission Impossible 3
Director: JJ Abrams
Production Company: Paramount Pictures, Bad Robot
Playback: Blackbox Digital
Role: Art Direction, Design & Animation
Date: 05.06

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My Little Eye

Production: My Little Eye
Director: Marc Evans
Production Company: Studio Canal
Post: Double Negative
Role: Art Direction, Design & Animation

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Silhouette

Client: Silhouette Inc
Project: Exhibition stand graphics
Role: Design & Execution

Silhouette is a rotoscoping and paint tool for visual effects artists. The aim was to capture this in a background image for an exhibition stand that simply conveyed two simple things. Motion and cutout. Used here one of the classic Eadweard Muybridge image sequences to capture that.

Mr & Mrs Smith

Production: Mr & Mrs Smith
Director: Doug Liman
Production Company: Regency Enterprises
Post: Blackbox Digital
Role: Art Direction, Design & Animation

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Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

Production: Mee-Shee: The Water Giant
Director: John Henderson
Production Company: MBP
Post: The Jim Henson Company
Role: Art Direction, Design & Animation

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The Painted Word

Client: The Painted Word
Project: Branding & Identity
Role: Art Direction & Design

3D Magic

Client: 3D Magic Community Group
Project: Branding & Identity
Role: Art Direction & Design

Alan Whalley

Client: Alan Whalley Chartered Accountants
Project: Branding & Identity
Role: Art Direction & Design

Alstons

Client: Alstons Paint Shop
Project: Branding & Identity
Role: Art Direction & Design

Caliban

Client: New Line Cinema
Project: Branding & Identity
Role: Art Direction & Design

Designed for in-film usage in Blade II.

Easy Effects

Client: Easy Effects Plugins
Project: Branding & Identity
Role: Art Direction & Design

Layerlab

Client: Layerlab
Project: Branding & Identity
Role: Art Direction & Design

MG Interiors

Client: Matthew Gregory Interiors
Project: Branding & Identity
Role: Art Direction & Design

Powerswitch

Client: Powerswitch: Peak Oil Awareness Group
Project: Branding & Identity
Role: Art Direction & Design

Promotion in Motion Media Services

Client: Promotion in Motion Media Services
Project: Branding & Identity
Role: Art Direction & Design

Praise Channel

Client: Praise Channel
Project: Channel Branding & Identity
Role: Art Direction & Design

Ratrap

Client: ITV
Project: Branding & Identity for Show Titles
Role: Art Direction & Design

Shipwrecked

Client: Channel 4
Project: Branding & Identity for Show
Role: Art Direction & Design

Silhouette FX

Client: Silhouette FX
Project: Branding & Identity
Role: Art Direction & Design

Source

Client: Source Media
Project: Branding & Identity
Role: Art Direction & Design

The Forge

Client: Personal
Project: Branding & Identity
Role: Art Direction & Design

55mm Icons

Client: Digital Film Tools
Project: 55mm Filter Effects
Role: Concept & Visual Design
Date: 09.04

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AVP: Alien vs. Predator

Production: AVP: Aliens vs. Predator
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox
Post: Double Negative
Role: Art Direction, Design & Animation
Date: 02.2004

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Silhouette FX

Client: Silhouette Inc
Project: Silhouette FX Roto & Paint
Role: Concept & Visual Design
Date: 04.2006

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Interview

Interview I did with Scott Barnes, Rich Platform Product Manager at Microsoft for his blog.

Press Pains

It looks like getting things the way I would like them in Wordpress is going to take a lot more work and time than I anticipated. Especially difficult for a code idiot like myself. Until I get the new layout functioning just the way I would like, I am going to refrain from fixing the images and folios and uploading the rest of the content. It will be coming along soon. In the meantime if any one has any good tips on creating themes and using Wordpress frameworks, give me a holler.

Returning Calls

One thing that has come to note whilst updating the site is that my old site had my old telephone number on it. Unfortunately I was never able to pick up the messages on that number while abroad and would like to apologize to anyone who never received a call back. Certainly did not mean to be rude. Drop me a mail if you did so.

The Bourne Ultimatum

Production: The Bourne Ultimatum
Director: Paul Greengrass
Production Company: Universal Pictures
Playback: Useful Companies
Role: Design & Animation

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Flow

Client: Gridiron Software
Project: Product Branding & Identity
Role: Art Direction & Design

Product branding and identity for revolutionary new workflow visualisation tool.