Put on your headphones & enjoy the non-sense.

Scrolling through Instagram, one gets flooded by all the perfection: beautiful people with flawless skin, toned bodies in perfectly curated sceneries: life as a never-ending romcom. No place for the real life, the truth. But there is always another side hiding behind the fake. Squeezed into the corset of modern beauty standards, a body with flaws and scars, trying to burst out.
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FOREAL® is your friendly neighbourhood Design Studio for any kind of crispy, high-end 3D-illustration, animation and art direction. Based in Germany, booked worldwide. www.weareforeal.com
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Concept, Art Direction and Production: FOREAL®
Co Art-Direction: Alex Trochut
Sound: Fonty Music aka Peter Albertz (@fontymusic)

In these moments, where life is happening more than ever through screens, it feels like a good time to reflect on what values our thumbs tap over others.
The materialistic and superficial social media posts seem to be a declining trending topic, but will we walk more confidently towards the future, displaying our #truth in the instagram life? Or will we deform our reality to represent more fake unachieable aspirations to an inexistent happiness?

BIO

Dvein is a directors collective that pushes the limits of live action and CGI storytelling, helmed by Teo Guillem and Carlos Pardo established since 2007. With a background in fine art and design, the collective merges the physical with the digital world to craft sleek visual effects infused with their own distinctive, organic aesthetic. With an experimental, design-driven culture at its core, Dvein combine live action with animation to pursue a unique visual language in all their work across cinema, broadcast, music video, art and installation.

Dvein have crafted commercial work for clients including Diesel, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Shiseido, Canal+, MTV, National Geographic or Nokia. Dvein’s directorial work has been featured in multiple festival and exhibitions around the world such as Saatchi & Saatchi’s New Director Showcase (France), OFFF Festival (Spain & France), F5 (United States), ArtFutura (Argentina) or Graphika (Philippines) among others.

Magma, one of their short films is part of the permanent collection of MoMa in New York. He has been awarded with the City of Barcelona Award on Film (2012) and the Fine Arts Medal of San Carlos University in Valencia (2013) alongside other awards.

«Media viruses spread through the datasphere the same way biological ones spread through the body or a community. But instead of traveling along an organic circulatory system, a media virus travels through the networks of the mediascape. The ‘protein shell’ of a media virus might be an event, invention, technology, system of thought, musical riff, visual image, scientific theory, sex scandal, clothing style, or even a pop hero—as long as it can catch our attention. Any one of these media virus shells will search out the receptive nooks and crannies in popular culture and stick on anywhere it is noticed. Once attached, the virus injects its more hidden agendas into the datastream in the form of ideological code—not genes but a conceptual equivalent we now call ‘memes.’ Like real genetic material, these memes infiltrate the way we do business, educate ourselves, interact with one another—even the way we perceive ‘reality.’

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MakMac is a creative studio based in Barcelona specialized in motion design. MakMac works in different mediums including advertising, series, art installations and opening titles. Some of their clients include Movistar, Netflix, BBC, MTV, Lapsus Festival, The XI New York and many others.

Pablo Lozano is an animator and designer hailing from the sunny lands of Madrid. After graduating from Hyper Island in Stockholm he moved to London, where he spent three years working full time at Golden Wolf before jumping into the freelance workforce and relocating to Toronto, where he’s been working and collaborating with amazing clients, studios and artists all around the globe.
Specialized in 2D animation, but having played roles that run the gamut of production, Pablo’s work has evolved into a mix of fluid animation with a strong focus in illustration and graphic design.

Frank Joseph Guzzone (@fjg_3d) is a 3D artist and Design Director based out of Brooklyn, New York. Frank’s visual experiments inform the playful and surrealistic worlds he creates. By combining his photorealistic environments with unexpected simulations, Frank strives to create visually stimulating experiences through his work. He has worked with brands including Adidas, Apple, Kate Spade, La Prairie, Moncler, Perrier, Rimowa, VitaminWater and more.  Frank and his work have been featured in publications including WIRED,  032c, Plastik Magazine, and Etapes. 

Dvein is a directors collective that pushes the limits of live action and CGI storytelling, helmed by Teo Guillem and Carlos Pardo established since 2007. With a background in fine art and design, the collective merges the physical with the digital world to craft sleek visual effects infused with their own distinctive, organic aesthetic. With an experimental, design-driven culture at its core, Dvein combine live action with animation to pursue a unique visual language in all their work across cinema, broadcast, music video, art and installation.

Dvein have crafted commercial work for clients including Diesel, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Shiseido, Canal+, MTV, National Geographic or Nokia. Dvein’s directorial work has been featured in multiple festival and exhibitions around the world such as Saatchi & Saatchi’s New Director Showcase (France), OFFF Festival (Spain & France), F5 (United States), ArtFutura (Argentina) or Graphika (Philippines) among others.

Magma, one of their short films is part of the permanent collection of MoMa in New York. He has been awarded with the City of Barcelona Award on Film (2012) and the Fine Arts Medal of San Carlos University in Valencia (2013) alongside other awards.

Peter John Kearney is a creative from New York working in the fields of design and motion. Pete’s personal work combines inspiration drawn from natural forms with creative technical executions.

Alex Trochut was born in 1981 in Barcelona, Spain. After completing his studies at Elisava Escola Superior de Disseny, Alex established his own design studio in Barcelona before relocating to New York City. Through his design, illustration and typographic practice he has developed an intuitive way of working that has resulted in his expressive visual style.

For Alex, typography functions on two hierarchical levels. First, there is the image of the word we see; reading comes secondary. As a designer, Alex focuses on the potential of language as a visual medium, pushing language to its limits so that seeing and reading become the same action and text and image become one unified expression.

Mixing styles and genres and drawing equally from pop culture, street culture, fashion and music, Alex has created design, illustration and typography for a diverse range of clients: Nike, Adidas, The Rolling Stones, Katy Perry, BBC, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, The Guardian, The New York Times, Time Magazine and many others. Alex’s work has been internationally recognized, appearing in in exhibitions and publications worldwide. He has given talks and been honored by the Art Directors Club––including being named a 2008 Young Gun––the Type Directors Club, Creative Review, Cannes, Clio and D&AD among others. His monograph, More Is More, explores his working methodologies and influences and was published in 2011.

David McLeod is an Australian artist and designer based in New York City.

Creating still and moving image, he seeks to express ideas through the exploration of new visual territories that challenge perception, and spark curiosity.

Once done with his studies at University of the Arts London, Jordi Pages pursued his formation as multidisciplinary audiovisual designer. Using 3D as a core technique to express himself, Jordi collaborates with the best studios, designers and brands globally, constantly crafting and evolving his approach and understanding of design.

Freddy Arenas is and independent director.

His work focuses on the semantics of the visual language: he strides to create poetic relationships that convey ideas in a compelling and innovative way.

Throughout his career he has created projects for clients such as The New York Times, California Sunday Magazine, Google and HBO Documentaries.

Freddy is constantly experimenting with new techniques and concepts. He shares his findings and showcases his creative process via Tumblr and most recently, Instagram.

Nil Serraïma is a multidisciplinary visual designer, director and 3D Generalist from Barcelona.

He began studying art in college, and then Graphic Design at ELISAVA School of Design and Engineering. In 2016, he completed a masters degree in Motion Graphic Design from BAU.

Nil worked as Motion Graphic Designer and Art Director at Firma, Onionlab, Mr. John Sample / SCPF* and Larsson-Duprez.

He has worked with artists and brands as:
PepsiCo, Alizzz, Nike, Mobile World Congress, ADCE, FAD, Banc Sabadell, MRW, ESADE, Lay’s, Seat, Danone, Ambar, ELISAVA, among others.

Leonstudio is a 3D animation company directed by Javier León and located in the south of Spain since 2006. We cover a number of very wide selection of different styles because we love what we do and we like to set new goals. That is why we always try to combine commercial work with our own projects that help us create new lines of work that make a difference. An example of this is the collaboration in the credit titles of The Crown. Bases on the work of jewelry design, which our artistic director Javier León carried out as a personal need to unite two worlds such as jewelry and 3D, we received the offer to collaborate in the visual development of the Netflix series. One of the styles that we like to work most, and that in a way represent this company, is the miniature or stop motion. We love creating scenarios full of personality and detail, as can be seen in the teaser of our latest Roxanne project. We also have at our disposal a photogrammetry equipment that allows us to obtain a digital double of both an object and a person and using this method we have worked in films such as Cold Skin or Superlopez.