Dec, 2008

Postcard for "The Affections of May" by Norm Foster at the Metro Theatre.
The Affections of May

May, 2007

Thirty Days November 2008 has just finished.
There was a great collection of participants from Canada and around the world, lots of first timers and lots of familiar names.
Strangely, for the first time, Tim, Aya and Keith were all traveling during the last week of November and couldn't complete all Thirty Days.

Aya's Thirty Days blog
Keith's Thirty Days blog

Aya's Day 10: Let's Have A Drink.
Let's Have A Drink


Keith's Day 13: Evening Nargileh.
Evening Nargileh

Oct, 2008

Postcard for "The Memory of Water" by Shelagh Stephenson at the Metro Theatre.
Three sisters meet up for their mother's funeral and find that their memories have created very different truths about their childhood.
The mother appears to each of them, introducing her point of view and requiring everyone to re-think what they have believed.
Don't know how it manages to be a comedy, but that's what is says.
A Memory of Water

Sep, 2008

Postcard for "A Murder Is Announced" by Agatha Christie at the Metro Theatre.
This one was a lot of fun to make. The key image in the plot is when the front door of a house opens to reveal a figure silhouetted against the setting sun. This person is shot dead, setting the rest of the play in motion.
Aya cut the figure, the floor, the posts and details from a single piece of paper. The dot of paper inside the shadow was added later, as was the beam of light.
A Murder Is Announced

We have to adapt each Metro postcard to their program cover as well. This has its own set of demands since it is done with off-set printing and is run with only the blacks plus one colour.
This involves a real re-think of the graphic, not least because the dimensions are so different, and usually we're less than thrilled with the results.
This time, however, we love the film noir/German expressionist feel.
We are aware that the "pool of blood" thing has been done before, but black, white and red always work together.
A Murder Is Announced Program Cover

July, 2008

The 2008-09 season at the Metro Theatre is under way. We are very happy to have the contract for their poster design again this year.
First up is the 2004 update of Neil Simon's classic "The Odd Couple", now called "Oscar and Felix".


May, 2008

Keith's alternate version of the Metro poster for "Plaza Suite", with simplified colours and a bit of added texture.


May, 2008

Thirty Days 2008 has just finished. Participants from across Canada and all over the world with music, sculpture, photography, poetry, cartoons, drawings, paintings and mixed media.
It was a great turn-out this year with a really good feeling from the participants.
Congratulations to everyone who made the time for work.

Aya's Thirty Days blog
Keith's Thirty Days blog

Aya's Day 07: Neighbourhood Sakura.


Keith's Day 19: The Female Nude.

May, 2008

We each had a drawing accepted into Drawing Expo 08, curated by Gabriel Deerman at Little Mountain Studios.

Aya's "Lucca Pine".


Keith's "Eatin' Irons".

Apr, 2008

The last play of the season at the Metro.
Based on the cover of the New Yorker, of course. Maybe someday we'll really get one of our illustrations on the cover.
Or inside. Or in a magazine that sits near the New Yorker on the shelf...


Mar, 2008

Poster for "The Melville Boys" at the Metro.
Fun with the textures in Photoshop.


Here are two rejected designs that we wanted to finish anyway.
Neither are really appropriate for the Metro's audience, but when an idea comes you just gotta go with it.

Wrasslin' Bugs!



Big stressed text!

Feb, 2008

Poster for "Anything Goes" at the Metro. Aiming for a cross between pin-up girl and travel poster.
Objects created in vector graphics app, then imported to Photoshop.
Used some good new brushes and spent a lot of time getting the textures just right.
Anything Goes

Feb, 2008

Aya created the wedding dress from paper doilies and made the tiara from beads and wire.
The veil is one of those plastic net bags that garlic comes in. Supermarket chic.
Final model stands approximately 10" (25cm) high.
Photographed in our studio and processed in Photoshop.
Wedding Of The Year

Jan, 2008

Aya's beautiful brushwork is the backbone of this month's Metro poster. All colouring was done digitally.
Last Night Of Ballyhoo

And we've added a map to the back of the postcard this month.
Last Night Of Ballyhoo (back)

Sep, 2007

We had a lot of fun developing new techniques for the textures and experimenting more with brushes in PS. Aya really got into the details while drawing the buildings.
Autumn Manoeuvres

Aug, 2007

The new season at the Metro Theatre has started. We are happy to be doing their illustrations again.
Out On A Limb

July, 2007

Thirty Days has just finished. Participants from across Canada and all over the world with music, video, photography, poetry, prose, drawings, paintings and mixed media.
Aya's blog
Keith's blog

June, 2007

We just finished the website for the beautiful new Soma restaurant.
Thanks to Tim Gerwing for the programming.











April, 2007

Lots of posters recently. Here is one for Tim Gerwing's upcoming concert.
Butterfly Effect

April, 2007

A great contract since we got back is the one to do the promotional material for the Metro Theatre here in Vancouver.
Noises Off

This was a different concept for Noises Off that we wanted to complete for our own experience.
Noises Off 3D

Ravenscroft

Sand Castles

Second Summer

This was our pitch piece to get the contract.
Black Coffee



March, 2007

Doing interesting motion graphics for some movies shooting in and around town. Lots of radar imagery and computer interface graphics.


Jan, 2007

Back from travels in the Balkans, Italy and Tunisia. Some photos can be seen at our travel blog.


July, 2006

The Thirty Days show has been held over until Saturday, August 5th at Little Mountain Studios.


July, 2006

We just finished the website for Soma Coffee House.
Thanks to Tim Gerwing for the final programming and to Joe, the super-fine manager of Soma,
for the opportunity to create the web presence of our favourite café.
We have spent many happy hours there, sipping excellent coffee and drawing our fellow locals.


July, 2006

Thirty Days has finished.
The Thirty Days show will open on July 8 at Little Mountain Studios.


June, 2006

The latest round of the Thirty Days project is under way and being generously hosted by Tim Gerwing.
The response has been great and there are participants from the U.K., Japan and Australia as well as across North America. We have set up blogs to host our images:
Aya's blog
Keith's blog


June, 2006

A poster for Outlet, a live glitch-hop concert at Little Mountain that was broadcast on a tiny FM footprint with the audience listening on little radio headphones.



May, 2006

Recent portrait in oils by Aya:
Olivia


May, 2006

Some recent sketches by Keith:
Plague
Japan: Streets
Japan: Festival 01
Japan: Festival 02
Little Old Lady
Coffee Pot and Cups
Self-Portrait


November 14, 2005

We have a show of photos up at Soma, a busy café gallery on Main Street. The theme was "The Neighbourhood" and we each have eight pieces hanging. If you can't get to Soma you can see them via the links below.

Keith's Photos:
Illuminated
Temporary Gift
Context
Aspire
Inclusion
Proof
Local Game
Engraved


Aya's Photos:
14th and Ontario St.
King Edward and Quebec St.
11th and Quebec St.
13th and Ontario St.
11th and Manitoba St.
10th and Quebec St.
22nd and Ontario St.


March 26, 2004

Keith posted a looping animation here. It is based on a scene from Akira Kurowawa's "Hidden Fortress" and features Japanese warrior monks who, I am told, were very bad.

We also joined the on-line community at ZeD, a multimedia community created by the good people at the CBC.
We added some animations in the Flash category which you can find by searching for "kib". View them and vote, why not?

We have been working with Char Hoyt, adding new animation based on her drawings to the front page of her Assballs website.



March 13, 2004

We just finished five illustrations for Pilkington Glass to promote their Mirropane one-way windows. Four black-and-whites will accompany technical bulletins on their website and the colour one will be part of their printed advertising.
Baggage Inspection (b/w)
Kindergarten (b/w)
Police Line (b/w)
Shoplifter (b/w)
Passport Control (colour)



February 29, 2004

Keith just posted a creepy little animation he did this weekend called Birdbot. It came from something in his sketchbook and got its start thanks to too much coffee. It may be heavy to run so right click and select a lower quality if it's too slow. The default is medium.



February 24, 2004

A site we completed for Red Star Inline Hockey League is now up and running. We also designed a poster for the league which is here.

Again, thanks to Tim Gerwing for stepping in to do the main programming.



February 19, 2004

The Gold Star Productions site is up. Be sure to check out the video clips at the top, the QT downloads in their What We Have Done section and the animated trailer for The Yearning that we produced for Gold Star last year.

Tim Gerwing has provided us with an excerpt from one of his brilliant compositions for the intro theme.



February 14, 2004

Finishing up a major branding/website effort for Gold Star Productions as they move into their new building and head into big-time movie production. Congratulations, Gold Star! We look forward to the premiere of the new brand identity, building and website later this month.

We were able to concentrate on the look and interactivity of the project thanks to Tim Gerwing who took on the trickier bits of new programming and really came through for us. He will also be doing the music for the Gold Star intro.

Take a look at the new website of William Maher, our animation mentor. The man is extremely talented.

We now move on to a re-design of the website for the Kay Meeks Centre for the Performing Arts, a beautiful new facility being built in West Vancouver. We're lucky enough to be working on that under the art direction of local design master Kent Maclagan.

We also have some illustration projects in the works and are trying (really!) to get a re-vamp of this site soon.



February, 2004

I wanted to try some under-water lighting effects and came up with this little submarine animation. Naturally, it got longer and more complex as I tackled different effects shots (lighting, explosion and bubbles) but I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. Still needs some sound.



January, 2004

We have been contracted to animate the comic strips of local artist Char Hoyt. This came about through the lucky coincidence of being fans of her strip and her spotting us wearing a T-shirt with her characters on it. We pitched her the idea of animating her characters and made up a short demo to convince her, with Tim Gerwing contributing some perfect music. She didn't need much convincing, as it turns out, and once we'd experimented with some stylistic approaches to find one that best captures her strip's painterly characteristics, we got started on the first episode.

The episodes will be posted soon on the Assballs website. Check out Char's work in the gallery sections.



December, 2004

I really wanted to get that Flash animator position at Atomic Cartoons but I never heard back from them. Was my test animation that bad?



August 17, 2003

Solved that problem with some Java help from a good friend and excellent programmer, Tim Gerwing. Flash showcase now functioning the way it should.



August 16, 12:30am, 2003

Success! Managed to figure out the problem and get the Flash showcase loading. Haven't cracked getting it to load into a separate window, or why the new window is bigger than the one called in the code, but that's next.



August 15, 2003

Discovered that we've been updating an older index page that had no link to the Flash showcase! I've been working like crazy to re-establish links but the Flash showcase link remains elusive. I'll get it done in the next day or two as soon as I can get in touch with one of my HTML gurus. I hate to think that the last two jobs we've applied for didn't contact us because of broken links...

Joined the "Animator's Web Ring" to find out more about the community of animators on-line. See the link at the bottom of the page and visit some of the other galleries in the ring.



August 10, 2003

Gold Star Productions has hired us to redo their logo and website. There is a lot of video and other content to work into it, so the site is going to be complicated. They liked one of the logos we presented so we have that settled at least. We're happy with the one they chose. Kind of has a 'hero' feel to it. We look forward to linking to that from here once both sites are finished.



August 8, 2003

The new site, all done in Flash, is well under way. The complexity of including three different portfolios in one site with clear categories and simple navigation certainly presented some design challenges. We won't be adding new content to the current site from this time. Instead, we're concentrating on getting the new site ready for upload and that will include all the recent projects. In the meantime, here are some links to animations that, until now, you haven't been able to link to from the site.

forestwalk
The Jellotor Project
desert moon (landscape inspired by G.Herriman)
wings
robot parade

July 2003

We were hired by a local music producer, Mark Nazemi, to create a CD cover for his latest project, a new-Goth band called Perfect Cell. Mark and the band liked what we did and contracted us to develop the artwork further and produce the band's website. You can find the finished site, with sound effects and song samples, at www.solidbass.com/perfectcell.

May 2003

We had four animated sequence broadcast coast-to-coast on CBC television in April. They were opening credits for three of four episodes of "Under The Cover", a four-part comedy-drama produced by our friends at Gold Star Productions here in Vancouver. The fourth was a cut-away scene within one of the episodes. All were created in Flash and all will be included in the new site when that is ready.

We completed a Flash animation intro to a website for Johnny Bagpipes, a Canadian stand-up comic who combines the best of big-hair metal with bagpipe music. No, really! He's pretty good! Our animation of his rock 'n' roll fantasy can be found here: www.johnnybagpipes.com

We are completely redesigning the site in Flash (finally!) and will have more of our Flash animation at the forefront, as well as updated artwork and drawings, our interactive portfolio and a more comprehensive links page.

For those of you new to our site, please keep in mind that, with projects being completed regularly, it can never be truly up to date. We intend to show here some of our individual work, as well as work done as a team, to demonstrate the skills that each of us bring to Ikeda-Barry Creative.

In order to ease downloads, we have adapted short sequences of animation to play as GIFs. In the process of lightening the file size, some of the timing may have changed.

Please feel free to reach us with questions or comments via the Contact page. References and their contact information may also be found there.

Thank you for taking the time to visit.

Keith and Aya Ikeda-Barry



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