Photography & Retouch - Jim Lind
Much like Scooby Doo, my cats seem to find themselves in strange and dangerous adventures from time to time. It's good that my wife and kids come along to investigate, otherwise they might be lost in space, frozen in an iceberg, or possibly end up as shark bait... Zoinks!
FEATURED
Group Creative Director – Steve Day
Creative Director – Jennifer Whitney
ACD - Mollie Ableman
Senior AD - Kevin Heo
AD - Sung Hyun
Executive Producer - Justin Harris
Senior Producer – Fernanda Garcia Lopez
Associate Producer - Laura Garcia Lopez, Flo Fusco
3D Supervisor – Marc Steinberg
3D Lead – Kien Hoang
3D Design – Chloe, Carlos Morán, Vini Nascimento, Amanda Godreau, Jiawen Liang, Rui Huang, Harrison Grant
3D Animation - Nejc Polovsak, Jacky Jackson, Andy Hahn, Adam Webber
2D Animation - Min Kim
2D Design - Ben Nichols, Gunnar Pettersson
Senior Concept Artist - Marcus Collins
Storyboard Artists: Tristyn Pease, Lanny Markasky, Syd Fini
Compositor: Jim Lind
Agency: Merkley+Partners
Production, Edit, VFX: The-Artery
Director - Vico Sharabani
DP - Oren Soffer
EP+MD - Deborah Sullivan
Creative Director - Yuval Levy
On Set Supervisor - Elad Offer
Producer - Tina Nakane
EP: Nick Haynes
Post Producer - Michael McCarthy
VFX Coordinator - Gerry Orz
Editor - Michael Elliot
Assistant Editor - Eren Gülfidan
Lead Flame Artist - Steven Miller
CG Supervisor - Dave Stewart
CG Supervisor - Joe Grundfast
Designer/Matte Painter - Jim Lind
Having partnered with Mercedes-Benz on several campaigns before, creative studio The-Artery continued their long standing relationship on latest spot, “New Light”. Using live-action production, editorial, post, VFX, color grading and finishing, the team transformed daytime film into cinematic nighttime scenes
Agency: AKQA
Client: Infosys
Retoucher: Jim Lind
Agency: The Mill
Retoucher: Jim Lind
Director: James Gray
Visual Effects: The Artery
Visual Effects Supervisor: Elad Offer
Visual Effects Producer: Thurman Martin III
Matte Painter: Jim Lind
Working alongside the talented people at The Artery, I was tasked to help bring the director’s vision of a 1980’s era NYC subway car to life. In order to do that we needed to create our own graffitti in the style of the felt tip marker and grease stick tags popular at the time. Then we had to track the dimensions of the train cars for each scene and composite them onto the surfaces. Leading to a successfully chaotic and grungy scene.
Client: Brooks
Agency: Brand New School
Director: Chris Dooley
Creative Director: Emeric Trahand
Photographer Mireia Rodríguez
Designers: Jun Yang, Shal Matharu
CG Supervisor: Russ Wootton
Executive Producer: Johnna MacArthur
Producers: Kyle McKeveny, Chris Decker
Matte Painter / Photo Retoucher: Jim Lind
For this project the team at Brand New School took on a massive branding overhaul for Brooks running shoes. My role in the project was to work alongside the CGI team in creating eye-catching visuals to be used across all media types. Often in jobs that mix real photography with CGI, the tough part is integrating all the parts to look as if the whole scene was actually photographed. I worked on adding textures, shadows, blurs, and general retouching tricks to blend them all together realistically. As a photographer with access to gritty NYC streets, I grabbed my camera to capture some tight shots of where the brick walls meet the sidewalk. This helps when your stock image search doesn’t yield the results you want. When needed, I went into a 3D application to render out lighting passes to help relight the talent and integrate into the scene.
Client: Pico VR
Production: The Artery
Creative Director: Vico Sharabani
Styleframe Artist: Jim Lind
Mattepainter: Jim Lind
The VR world has a competitive scene for headsets so the team over at The Artery wanted to separate the Pico 4 headset from the pack with an eye catching visual. We wanted the user to feel transported from reality into this immersive digital world as if they were actually there. For this minute and a half live action spot, my role was to create style frames and matte-paintings for the virtual reality concert. Using 3D software I created an otherworldly mountain scene to set the stage for a large artificial intelligence concert venue. Using Photoshop, I helped breakout the scene into foreground, midground and background layers to be composited back into the footage by the talented Flame artists at The Artery.
Client: ViiV Healthcare
Agency: McCann
Production: AlkemyX
Photographer: Harry Fellows
Retouch: Jim Lind
Though these individuals may seem larger than life, they are in fact not hundred foot giants. For this healthcare campaign we wanted our heroes to ‘LivLarge’ and show that they can take hold of their HIV diagnoses. Set globally in several large cities, the photographer Harry Fellows captured a wide variety of beautiful panoramic images. With the rising sun as our unifying element throughout the scenes I integrated the talent into the skylines to appear towering over their environments. The next goal was to unify the buildings with a pink and purple color palette to keep a consistent branding message across the board.
Director: Anne Fletcher
VFX Production: The Artery
VFX Supervisor: Elad Offer, Yuval Levy
VFX Resource Manager: Madeline Mack
VFX Producer: Thurman Martin III
Flame Artist: Dan Bartolucci
Matte Painter: Jim Lind
A fun reboot for the classic Halloween tale of the Sanderson Sisters. The Artery was tasked in creating the visual effects for many of the iconic scenes. My role was to add depth to the background forest scene by creating many layers of crooked trees, scraggly brush, and ominous fog. It required many iterations and tweaks to get it just right so that it would complement the lead performances in the foreground.
Publisher - Rizzoli
Book Title - Guo Pei - Couture Beyond
Foreword - Paula Wallace
Introduction - Lynn Yaeger
Photography & Production - HOWL Collective
Creative Direction & Retouch - Jim Lind
We were approached by Savannah College of Art and Design in collaboration with Rizzoli Publishing to produce a monograph for the visionary fashion designer Guo Pei. While we were originally familiar with the name in connection to Rihanna’s 2015 Met Gala gown, we quickly became enamored with her work. Looking through her designs was like pulling clothing straight out of Alice in Wonderland, so naturally we went the route of creating fairytale worlds for them to live in. This series of images were used to showcase her delicate craftsmanship as inspiration to the western world. As the creative director and retoucher for HOWL, a traveling photo collective, it was my job to bring these images into the fantasy realm. Over the course of four weeks and thirteen locations in the deep south, HOWL Collective created 130 original images to be used in her first published monograph.
AWARDS
London Fashion Film Festival 2019 — Best Accessory Design & Best Costume Design
CGI: 2Fake
Agent: Janice Moses
Retouch: Jim Lind
Working with CGI artist Nicolas Rieben, aka 2Fake, to create a wonderfully inventive personal piece. It showcases the potential future of FedEx operating as an intergalactic freight company moving shipments between planetary worlds.
Client: Apple Music
Production: Recom Farmhouse
Retouch: Jim Lind
Produced for Japanese pop band, RadWimps, this image was released in combination with their studio album onto Apple Music’s platform.
Client: Canoo
Photographer: Jeff Ludes
Creative Dirtector: Nick Gronenthal
Creative Producer: Nathan Smith
Production: Recom Farmhouse
Retouch: Jim Lind, Andrew Coleman, Steven Orts
A fun project for a new breed of electric cars shot by the seasoned Jeff Ludes. Entering into the exciting world of electric vehicles, Canoo plans to separate themselves with their sleek design and ride sharing services. My role was to work alongside the team at Recom Farmhouse to blend the sporty and rugged aestetic into the playful environments.
Client: Nike
Production: Silhouette Studio
Retouch: Jim Lind
A fun project for Nike that involved taking a David Hockney approach to digital photography. The images were then retouched to look as though they were scanned, printed, cut out, and pasted into a low fidelity collage format.
Client: Strensiq
Agency: Abelson Taylor
Production & CGI: Taylor James
Retouch: Jim Lind
The concept for this project was to show how these patients can be freed up to live more of their lives. Often they feel limited in what they can and can’t do because of their condition so we wanted to represent an ‘unboxing’ of their full potential. The TJ team went to CG as there were a lot of different scenarios to showcase. This allowed for more flexibility in the height, angle and lighting for each individual scene. To speed up the process, the scenes were rendered in lower fidelity so that the details could be added in retouch. Swapping out the clothes, adding textures and sometimes even replacing plants helped create a smooth transition from conception to completion.
Client: Toyota
Agency: Saatchi LA
Photographer: Alex Bernstein
Photographer Agent: Anderson Hopkins
Production: Recom Farmhouse
Retouch: Jim Lind, Andrew Coleman, Steven Orts
Back by popular demand, the Toyota Supra GR86 (alongside the Corolla) is making a splash among car enthusiasts. These images were created to showcase how this modern day sports car can handle the elements. My goal as a retoucher was to incorporate wind and rain elements while maintaining a feeling of intense speed. Alex Bernstein captured dynamic drifting shots alongside beautiful backdrops that helped to nail the concept down.
The images are part of a larger campaign for the 2022 Toyota GR86 Supra release: www.toyota.com/gr-supra
Client - Constellation Brands
Agency - High Wide & Handsome
Production & CGI - TaylorJames
Retouch - Jim Lind & John Cason
“We created concept art to capture the tone of a "perfect storm." We experimented with the bottle caught up in the elements of earth, wind, water, and fire, to find the perfect, striking image. We spent a lot of time trying to find the right balance between energy, details and legibility as well as how we transition from earth, leaves, wind and clouds as we moved up the bottle. Each element had to seamlessly blend into the next. Gold suggests premium quality, luxury, and a calm after a storm. We looked to images of gold particles, dust and shimmers, and even award statuettes for our mood board.”
— via TaylorJames
Client: Chevrolet
Photographer: Alex Bernstein
Production & CGI: Recom Farmhouse
Retouch: Jim Lind, Andrew Coleman
Client: Syneos Health
Production & CGI: Taylor James
Retouch: Jim Lind
The highly skilled CGI team at TJ rendered a detailed forest to showcase the targeted areas of the brain that the disease effects. My goal was to create realistic burning trees in very specific regions of the brain shape. Adding detailed textures into the grass, leaves and smoke helped to bring this image into reality and feel as though the aerial viewer stumbled across this scene in the wind open landscape.
Photography - Jim Lind / Stock
Talent - Ali Lind
Retouch - Jim Lind
This project was a labor of love for me. I had come across Romain Laurent's 'Tilt' series and wanted to see if I could give my own twist to it. With access to an infinite array of stock photography I scoured the web for the right imagery to help tell the story of an individual casually walking amidst a major natural disaster. My wife has a knack for staying poised in chaotic situations, even apocalyptic ones, so she was the perfect candidate. Hold on end of the world, this text must be sent!
Client: Suva Insurance
Photographer: Holger Pooten
Production: Versatile Studios
CGI: Pedro Kobuti
Retouch: Jim Lind
Since this was an insurance advert about being safe on site, the photographer took ultimate precaution to ensure a safety of the talent by utilizing CGI. Our artist rendered out several photo-real variations of the broken tiles to give the feeling that the tiles had just smashed into the ground with high impact. In combination with some atmospherics and post production effects we were able to turn what would have been a very dangerous and difficult shoot into a simple and efficient project.
Client: ABC
Photographer: Gavin Bond
Production: Silhouette Studio
Retouch: Jim Lind
Promotional images of the stars for the new ABC show Queens. This project involved incorporating many practical flame shots photographed by the skillful Gavin Bond into the final composites.
Client - Emergen-C
Agency - Townhouse
Production & CGI - Method Studios
Retouch - Jim Lind
Client - Baker Hughes
Production - Little Red Robot
Creative Direction - Seth Shukovsky
CGI - Pedro Kobuti
Design - Sanu Sagar
Photography - Stock
Retouch - Jim Lind
Click the link below to experience the site:
www.bhge.com/digital
Client: Toyota
Agency: Saatchi LA
Creative Director: Mathew Velarde
Art Producer: Skye Houghton
Photographer: Alex Bernstein
Photographer Agent: Anderson Hopkins
Production: Recom Farmhouse
Retouch: Jim Lind, Andrew Coleman, Federico Chiesa, Steven Orts
The images are part of a larger campaign for the 2020 Toyota GR Supra release: www.toyota.com/gr-supra
Client: Rexulti
Agency: Concentric Health
Photography: Jaap Vliegenthart
Production & CGI: Taylor James
Retouch: Jim Lind
Client: Orkambi
Photographer: Josh Dalsimer
Retouch: Jim Lind
Client - VitaCoco
Agency - Interesting Development
Creative Direction - Johan Leandersson
Art Direction - Ira Oksman
Production - Jonno Durrant
Photography - Jason Leiva
Retouch - Jim Lind
The challenging part of this large citywide campaign was creating an actionable typeface that was both customizable and extremely high resolution. Using photoshop brushes, textures, and layer styles, I put together an action set that would output unique non-repeating letters for any given phrase (which was especially important since they were using dozen of taglines). In combination with the clever portraits shot by Jason Leiva, the campaign was unleashed throughout New York City to showcase that even the pickiest reviewers still enjoyed VitaCoco.
Client - Vivo Barefoot
Agency - H Collective
Photography - H Collective & Stock
Retouch - Jim Lind
On the day of the shoot, the high altitude mountains were void of the snow the client needed to showcase the winter capabilities of the minimalist shoe design. That’s where I came in with the goal of recreating the shoot using stock photography to replicate the mood and lighting of the original image but with a strong winter and snow aesthetic.
Client - AT&T
CGI - Damian Atkinson, Hensel Guerra
Retouch - Jim Lind, Nina Marie, Billy Lewis
Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Entertainment teamed up with AT&T for an unprecedented takeover of its Times Square store to celebrate the upcoming release of Justice League
Photography - HOWL Collective
Words - Patrick O’Brien
Creative Direction & Retouch - Jim Lind
The brisk autumn air fathers the mist rising from the warm waters of the lake beneath my boat. It consumes me. Engulfs my sight, hugging me like a blanket as my silver tin vessel slices through the surf. With each push of the oars I can hear the twisting of metal, the wood slapping against the water, and the drips toiling at the surface as I pull them back through the air. I push on. Through the wet morning dew, heading towards the ripe trees splashed with golden colors. Vibrant colors or red, yellow, burnt orange, yet on this blue morning diluted through the fog, are no more than a distant haze.
Client - Kraken
Production & CGI - Technology Human & Taste
Art Direction - Ryan Price
Photography - Stock
Retouch - Jim Lind
Client - BHGE
Production - Little Red Robot
Creative Direction - Seth Shukovsky
Art Direction - Aron Filkey
CGI - Pedro Kobuti
Photography & Retouch - Jim Lind
“BHGE is the world's leading supplier of equipment and services to oil and gas companies. To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of Baker Hughes joining the GE Brand, the team developed the number ‘1’ formed from all the elements that make up their company. We used a photo real 3D workflow to create the main asset, then off to our creative retoucher to take the image to unbelievable places. After we animated the scene and composited the image back together to create gifs and video loops for their corporate website. Finally, we used html video and coded hot spots over the top of the scene so the viewer can find out more about the special areas of this image.”
- via Little Red Robot
Click below to experience the interactive site:
www.bhge.com/1-year-strong
Client - PrecisionEffect
Production & CGI - TaylorJames
Retouch - Jim Lind & Lucy Hoare
Client - General Electric
Production - Little Red Robot
Creative Direction - Seth Shukovsky
Art Direction - Aron Filkey
CGI - Mark Yagos, Ryan Robinson
& Sebastian Gat
Motion - Daniel Pernikoff, Ryan Urban
& Adam Thompson
Photography & Retouch - Jim Lind
“Linda Boff, CMO of GE, came to us with a challenge. She wanted to build a campaign that touched on the impacts of GE. In support of this, the team at Little Red Robot came up with many highly visually, design driven ideas. Once we honed on in shadow boxes to add together to create a moving image we set out to create something amazing with the opportunity at hand. We at first illustrated the concept by hand and then we sent it to our 3D team who modeled everything in photo real 3D. Once rendered, our creative CGI retoucher jumped in detailing and texturing. Once the look was baked, it went back to 3D team for animation. Then to a Houdini visual effects workflow to create water sim, smoke, clouds, fire. All added together by a compositor in Nuke. Finally interactive development begins. We opted to code over html video, so that when a viewer touched anywhere, contextual info would appear. The campaign was deployed on all GE social media outlets driving users to the interactive experience at GE.com.”
- via Little Red Robot
Click below to experience the interactive site:
www.ge.com/reports/impact-aviation
Client: Toyota
Agency: Saatchi LA
Creative Director: Matt Davis
Art Direction: Danielle Duran & Mat Velarde
Photographer: Alex Bernstein
Photographer Agent: Anderson Hopkins
Production: Recom Farmhouse
Retouch: Jim Lind, Andrew Coleman, Steven Orts
The images are part of a larger campaign for the 2020 Toyota Corolla release: www.toyota.com/upcoming-vehicles/corolla
Client: Toyota
Agency: Saatchi LA
Art Director: Matthew Velarde
Art Producer: Brittany Cernansky
Photographer: Alex Bernstein
Photographer Agent: Anderson Hopkins
Production: Recom Farmhouse
Retouch: Jim Lind, Andrew Coleman, Federico Chiesa
The images are part of a larger campaign for the 2019 Toyota Avalon release: www.toyota.com/avalon
Agency - Thought & Expression
Photography - Chris Lavergne
Art Direction - Daniella Urdinlaiz
Talent - Isabelle Hadden
Retouch - Jim Lind
I was approached by Chris with a fun and cheeky project that I couldn't resist. The idea to juxtapose historical context of the old with the new. Starting from a photograph, I helped to transform the images from hipster-chic to old world relic complete with antique frame and kitschy etching "OMG BFF LOL FML U AWAKE? <3". The process of of taking a photo-real image and morphing it back into a representative oil painting only added to it's cheekiness.
"The past does not cease to exist simply because we lose our memory of it. We have never before been so young, nor so old."
- via Thought & Expression
Agency - Creative Solider
Art Direction - Danny Bellini
Photography - Tony Notarberardino
CGI - Bren Buenavista
Retouch - Jim Lind
Located in the heart of Philly, the beaux-arts Atlantic Building underwent a much needed face lift. Once the headquarters to the Atlantic Richfield Oil Company, it's now reopening its doors to the commercial real estate world. To commemorate the grand opening of the newly renovated building, Creative Soldier partnered with Tony Notarberardino and myself to bring this campaign to life by linking its past history to its current form.
I was brought in to facilitate the process of blending CGI with photography. As with most real estate imagery, we were working with highly detailed 3D CAD data of the building's blueprints. So it was imperative to match up the photography with the CGI rendered scenes while incorporating the ensemble of dust-bowl era characters. While on set, I worked alongside Tony to make sure we stayed consistent in our camera angle, lensing, lighting direction, and 1920's vibes.
Client - General Electric
Agency - Little Red Robot
Art Direction - Seth Shukovsky
CGI - Meats Meier & Saizen Media
Creative Direction & Retouch: Jim Lind
"From the first light bulb, to the first digital industrial company. GE, 125 years of innovation!"
- via General Electric
Agency - Thought & Expression
Art Direction - Chris Lavergne
Photography - Noah Kalina
Talent - Alana Beale, Jessica Grand
Retouch - Jim Lind
"21st Century Prehistory is a tribute to ancient landscapes and the mysticism of the Pleistocene epoch. It’s a creation myth told through photography. But it’s an unsettling creation myth designed to straddle the line of Genesis and Revelations, and confront the viewer with the uncomfortable question: Is this prehistory? Or civilization after the collapse?"
- via Thought & Expression
Client - Ford
Agency - GTB
Photography - Uli Heckmann
Production & CGI - Recom Farmhouse
Retouch - Jim Lind & Andrew Coleman
"For the debut of the redesigned 2018 Mustang, agency GTB assigned Uli Heckmann once again to capture Ford’s flamboyant muscle car. Set around various hip LA neighborhoods, PCH and an old desert bridge, the campaign has a relaxed, editorial feel to it. As the new model wasn’t available at the time of the shoot, a previous model was used in its place, which had to be swapped out later in CGI. The team at Recom Farmhouse worked closely with the photographer and agency via screen share sessions to produce the final artwork."
- via Recom Farmhouse
To view the images from the larger campaign, visit: www.ford.com/cars/mustang
Photography - HOWL Collective
Words - Elliot Ross
Creative Direction & Retouch - Jim Lind
"The black abyss, it beckoned me. To fly a starship across the universe divide. It promised me things no human had ever beheld before. It lured me from the downy comfort of my life. Pulled me from the love of my life and Earthly things I held close. I believed with divine certainty that the far off pin pricks held something for me.
I was wrong.
It all went wrong. Yet here I am. Alone and forsaken to wander this dark and desolate planet of origins unknown. I’m the sole ambassador to human life on this rock. With each encumbered step, I yearn for light. To find the fusion warmth of another star.
I know it exists, for there’s life here, not unlike the life on our own planet. If only I had company, I could carry on, even with a sense of normalcy. So much of what lies in my view recalls a memory of my former life, each with their own calibrated stab of pain.
Then there was light. It fell at my feet at first and led me across to a world more like the one I knew and loved, and left. The golden cast came as if it was late. Rushing through the boulders and crags, setting me on a trajectory towards its origins.
In the immediate distance, ice breaks off into the rivers below; floating past like flotsam on a river’s surface after a hard rain. The rains are steady here. Not the hard driving kind like you find on a summer’s afternoon in Georgia where the road ends in water. More like what you could encounter in a valley deep in the Cascades at the top of a lake. A persistent release of inconsequential droplets that as a whole provide a profound affect on the landscape for it is red here. All races of red. I hadn’t known the subtleties of the hue back home.
A week of rain and the world glitters with jewels of atmospheric perspiration. A kaleidoscope of tiny highlights and pin pricks of light that parallels the stars. The stars that promised so much and gave only a sentence of wandering in return.
I know eventually it’s all for not. I’ll consume the last of what keeps me alive—the atmospheric filters and the remainder of my nutrient. That’ll be the end to this cul-de-sac quest. Only today I caught myself floating in a soup of thoughts, of sliding the safety and unlatching my visor and for a brief and final moment feeling the alien air hit my face.
I find comfort in this. One final outbound sentence into the black abyss."
- via HOWL Collective
Client - Wildlife Conservation Society
Agency - Juniper Jones
Art Direction: Andrea Scaglione
Photography - Juniper Jones, Stock
Retouch - Jim Lind
"Ninety-six elephants are killed every day in Africa. Join the Wildlife Conservation Society to stop the killing, stop the trafficking, and stop the demand."
- via 96 Elephants
Photography - HOWL Collective
Words - Forest Woodward
Creative Direction & Retouch - Jim Lind
Man's influence on his environment and the society he lives in has consequences and repercussions that outlive his lifetime. Moreover we fail to learn from the negative repercussions and instead see history repeating itself as people continue to act out of desire for power, greed, ignorance (whether real or feigned), callousness, and a lack of global compassion.
Client - Ford
Agency - GTB
Creative Director - Todd Ruthven
Digital Art Director - David Nonthaweth
Art Producer - Gerry Kozikowski, Kim Harris
Photography & Production - John Roe
CGI - Recom Farmhouse NY
Retouch - Jim Lind & Andrew Coleman
“After a seven year hiatus Ford is reintroducing the mid size Ranger to the US market. The ten day shoot took photographer John Roe and his crew all across Oregon from the beaches to the high mountains, exposing them to the ever-changing elements, ranging from rain, snow and fog to heavy winds. Our NY and London teams joined forces to work on this action packed reveal campaign. CGI Director Richard Levene from our NY studio was on set to capture clean background spheres and to swap in the new CGI model for the Australian stand-in. As the weather kept changing the crew had to react fast to get all the shots needed and it was a great experience to work with such a tightly knit team.”
- via Recom Farmhouse
To view photographs from the larger Ford Ranger campaign: www.ford.com/trucks/ranger
Client - Dunkin’ Donuts
Agency - Arc Worldwide
Photographer - Clint Blowers
Production - Recom Farmhouse
Retouch - Jim Lind & Federico Chiesa
Client - Merrell
Agency - Hill Holliday
Art Direction - Jude Senese
Production - TaylorJames
Photography - Jason Leiva
Retouch - Jim Lind
"Merrell - Inspired By Nature
Hill Holliday approached TaylorJames with a creative take on the traditional shoe ad. The goal was to create a captivating portrait of a goat made entirely out of photographic shoes to promote Merrell's new line of Capra shoes whose tread resembles the grip of a goat’s hoof."
- via TaylorJames
Agency - Thought and Expression
Creative Direction - Chris Lavergne
Photography - Stock
Retouch - Jim Lind
"Thought Catalog is a creative lifestyle brand and experimental media outlet. The website is the home to over 30 million readers every month and the outlet of choice for thousands of writers and artists to showcase their work. Founded in 2010, Thought Catalog is one of the Top 100 most visited websites in the United States."
- via Thought & Expression
Client - Subaru
Agency - Designory
Production & CGI - Recom Farmhouse
Retouch - Jim Lind & Andrew Coleman
Photography & Retouch - Jim Lind
In large, humans have a need to believe in something bigger, something more meaningful. Such religious connotations often surface to help fill that void and connect us to a higher power. However, with the arrival of the modern society, religion and faith have taken on entirely new contexts. It is now hard to disseminate between stories of divine spiritual interventions and encounters with the supernatural. No longer are such stories accepted at face value but rather are questioned on authenticity. It is this dissemination between truth and uncertainty, which have caused much turmoil in our world’s longstanding history.
Photographer: Alex Bernstein
CGI: Steelworks
Retouch: Jim Lind
Photography - Alex Bernstein
Production - Recom Farmhouse
Retouch - Jim Lind & Federico Chiesa
"Inspired by our Thomas Strogalski Porsche shots (in a CGI environment) Alex wanted to create a similar feel of the car entering and living in a modern industrial space. Initially the plan was to also create a CGI environment but we both liked the location he shot - which is actually where the cars are kept. So, we decided to work with the plates from that and extend the environment in retouching to make it feel slightly larger. Mission accomplished!"
- via Recom Farmhouse
Client: Zerbaxa
Agency: Dudnyk
Production & CGI: Taylor James
Retouch: Jim Lind
Client - Progressive
Agency - Arnold
Production - TaylorJames
Photography - Joshua Dalsimer
Retouch - Jim Lind
"Progressive - Stand Out
Working alongside Arnold ad agency in Boston, we were excited to be involved in the legendary Progressive Insurance ads in which character ‘Flo’ takes centre stage. The slogan for this edition of the campaign was: ‘Insurance Savings that Stand Out’. The concept was to hide Flo within playful situations, using the white brand color of Progressive. "
- via TaylorJames
Client - Smirnoff
Agency - JWT
Photography - Corriette Schoenaerts
Production - TaylorJames
Retouch - Jim Lind
"We created this series of Smirnoff ads for their campaign ‘Yours For The Making’. We retouched the photographic images to glitzy perfection for the global Vodka brand in post-production. The ads are part of a huge online & TV campaign with agency JWT New York, to encourage consumers to unleash their imaginations in order to come up with new creative drinking and nightlife experiences."
- via TaylorJames
Client - Palio+Ignite
Art Direction - Joe Tocci
Production - TaylorJames
Photography - Stock
Retouch - Jim Lind
"Clinical Trial by Fire
Palio+Ignite provides healthcare marketing solutions inspired by the intersection of insight and context."
- via Palio+Ignite
Client - DirecTV
Production - TaylorJames
Photography - Alberto Oviedo
Retouch - Jim Lind
"With DirecTV enjoy your favorite programming inside and outside the home, from your laptop, tablet or smartphone."
- via DirecTV
Client - DuPont
Agency - Ogilvy
Production - TaylorJames
Photography - Harry Fellows
Retouch - Jim Lind
"DuPont Teflon - Stains Take Flight
Nothing Messes with DuPont Teflon surface protector - not fingerprints, dirt or grime. The Teflon brand diamond is your assurance of superior clean-ability and protection. So walls stay clean with a single wipe, leaving only vibrant color behind."
- via Ogilvy
Client - Tampax
Agency - Publicis
Photography - Harry Fellows & Stock
Production - TaylorJames
Retouch - Jim Lind
"Tampax - Power Over Periods
What does life look like during your period? It looks great with Tampax Pearl. Its built-in backup braid helps stop leaks by channeling them back into the core, protecting you in a way no other tampon does."
- via Publicis
Photography & Retouch - Jim Lind
As a sign of the current times, people are losing jobs, businesses, homes, and a general quality of living at an alarming rate. When bad news comes it’s all too easy to curl up in the ball and accept defeat. Rather I see it as the perfect time for growth and discovery. In each scene, the individuals are adapting to the changing environment and progressing forward. The images present a tangible hopefulness that is inherent in all grim situations. Like any of the dark periods in our long history, this too will pass.
Client - Jack Daniels
Agency - Arnold
Production - TaylorJames
Photography - Harry Fellows
Retouch - Jim Lind
"The Jack Daniel's Tennessee Fire campaign was a collaboration with Arnold to promote the Jack Daniel's cinnamon flavored whiskey. This campaign had many complex challenges, including controlling varying intensities of fires, manipulating red-hot coals into varying shapes. Our creative director led this complete production from concept to completion and partnered with our internal photographer to get all the elements needed to build the images in post."
- via TaylorJames
Client - Toujeo
Agency - Arnold
Production & CGI - TaylorJames
Photography - Alex Martinez
Retouch - Jim Lind & Lucy Hoare
“Working with Arnold NY, we executed a fully-integrated campaign for diabetes drug Toujeo. It was a complete Taylor James production, directed by Anthony Furlong, and included :60 :90 & :120 TVC spots and 7 print visuals. We blended motion control, live-action talent, and practical miniature paper-sets and then composited it all into a full CGI paper world.”
- via TaylorJames
Client - Canon
Agency - Grey
Production & CGI - TaylorJames
Photography - Jason Leiva
Motion - Sina Taherkhani
Retouch - Jim Lind
"Canon - See Impossible
A campaign rebranding Canon, to show there is more to them than their cameras alone. The technology is used across a wide array of different technology from cinema, medical imaging, publishing and optometry. The brief was to illustrate this by showing their 5D MK III exploded into its component parts and then inserting 4 key features relating to those components which defined the different areas of technology."
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Client - Jack Daniels
Agency - Arnold
Production - TaylorJames
Photography - Harry Fellows
Retouch - Jim Lind
Agency - Thought Catalog
Creative Direction - Chris Lavergne
Retouch - Jim Lind
Client - Reebok
Agency - Venables
Production - TaylorJames
Photography - Ture Lillegrave & Jason Leiva
Retouch - Jim Lind
Client - Ecobee
Production - TaylorJames
Photography - Harry Fellows
Retouch - Jim Lind
"The Ecobee brand sits at the forefront of modern chic design, coupled with the latest wifi technology and an eco-friendly vision. So we were ecstatic to be asked to jump on board and create a brand campaign that included a series of inspiring and cinematic prints, placing the Ecobee sensor at the heart of a modern family home."
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Client - Hover over image
Photography - Hover over image
Production - Blank Digital
Retouch - Jim Lind
The following images showcase a small selection of the images I worked on at Blank Digital while I was the lead Senior Retoucher.
"We are visual storytellers. We’re our clients’ trusted creative partners, meticulous in helping them to engage people emotionally. We aspire to achieving new artistic and commercial heights with your work and ours. We’re a family of industry experts, with a multifaceted and cutting-edge skill-set. We know this industry inside and out and are passionate about nurturing new talent. And we take pride in our ability to stay ahead of the game, this is our edge – it’s what drives us relentlessly forward. The world’s most established photographers, agencies and brands, the industry up-and-comers – we tailor our services to our client and strive for greatness with each and every one of our projects."
- via Blank Digital
Photography - Jeremy Hollister
Retouch - Jim Lind
Photography - Jeremy Hollister
Retouch - Jim Lind
Client - Subaru
Agency - DDB Canada
Photography - Jim Smithson
Production - TaylorJames
Retouch - Jim Lind & Jennie Nystedt
"Subaru - Dueling Imprezas
Once the material was captured on location, our artists worked on it back at the studio to create the text coming out of the sand, billowing from behind the cars. We built up multiple layers of dirt, grime and dust to form the basic shape the clouds and then selectively lightened and darkened the dust to form the tagline for the campaign - adding shadows to ground everything onto the flat desert. We then worked on the overall color and master files ready to take across high resolution print and digital banner adverts."
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Client - Saratoga Arts Council
Agency - Palio+Ignite
Production - TaylorJames
Photography - Stock
Retouch - Jim Lind
Photography & Retouch - Jim Lind
"The Earth has seen its fair share of changes since the beginning of time: shifting continents, ice ages, dry spells, rise and fall of civilizations. However the world is young and must adapt to the ever-changing environment. Whether good or bad, mankind plays a huge role in the future of this third planet from the sun. The following images are all shot of the same location in southern France but processed to represent the past, present and possible near future of the Luberon Valley."
Client - Gain
Agency - Arc Worldwide
Production & CGI - Taylor James
Retouch - Jim Lind
Client - Nissan
Agency - TBWA
Photography - Platon
Production & CGI - TaylorJames
Retouch - Jim Lind
"Nissan - Electrimonials
TBWA came to TaylorJames to create a multi-platform campaign for out of home, print and web. This project is so special because stock doesn’t exist at the size and scale and therefore many painful hours in CGI were needed to make this happen."
- via TaylorJames
