City Diorama on an iPhone [Video]

martin in Inspiration

5/7/12

[updated: 5/14/20]

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I love coming across a stellar piece of student work. It just makes me excited that there’s always a new crop of amazing artists and designers coming along to inspire us with their risk taking and creativity.

Los Angeles-based animator Mike Ko created this stunning video of an animated city scene that takes place on top of an iPhone as one of his graduation pieces from Otis College of Art and Design. The 24 second long video, which is at the end of this post, took 3 months to complete, start to finish.

Needless to say, we’ll be seeing a lot of great things, I’m sure, from Michael.

Want to see some photos of his process? Check out his website!

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Martin Refsal is an art and design aficionado living in New York City. As the son of a woodcarver and a jewelry designer, he grew up in a home where making art and experimenting with different media and techniques was the norm. He receivedd a B.A. in Studio Art from St. Olaf College, where he focused on painting and bronze casting. In 201[...]