The Paintings of Topix Flame Artist Julia Deakin Featured on 'boards

April 2009
Topix flame artist Julia Deakin has seen her paintings and illustrations featured in multiple magazines and galleries across Canada.  Most recently, 'boards is showcasing her work on its extracurricular blog.

Check out the site where you can view more of Julia's pieces and read, in her own words, about her personal approach to art as well as her many inspirations.



Topix Celebrates Earth Day with SunChips and Juniper Park

April 2009
In 2010, SunChips plans to introduce the first fully compostable chip bag of its kind. To make this earth conscious announcement, SunChips turned to Juniper Park, Topix and Mad Films to document the bag as it decomposed over 14 weeks.

Director Robert Maya shot numerous plates of the decomposing bag along with location footage from a shoot in Florida. Then, from over 100,000 frames of high-resolution footage (and ultimately 3 terabytes of information), Topix assembled the time-lapse sequence.

To accompany the decomposing bag, Topix's 3D department animated a budding crocus, pacing its growth with the time-lapsed footage.

Watch the spot here.


Topix Designs Opening Reel for the 10th Annual First Boards Awards

April, 2009
Topix and audio house Grayson Matthews have partnered to create the opening reel for the 10th Annual First Boards Awards.

The awards, which are held in New York, recognize the advertising industry's brightest new talent.

Topix designer Julia Deakin combined still photography with animation to create a series of dark and playful caves for the opening reel.

Using a mixture of 2.5D camera moves, particle simulations, shadow & light play and hand animated elements, Deakin brings life and depth to the still photos.


Watch the Opening Reel Design here


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