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Practice are Mike Slane and Adrian Bishop: a creative duo of animators, directors, writers, crafters, and everything in between.
With silliness and experimentation at the very core of their craft, their distinct collaborative approach have seen them work for the likes of Sesame Street, Colorado Office of Tourism, AIGA, The Denver Art Museum, Silk Milk and Modern Treasury.
Mike and Ade each take a moment to reflect on what excites them most about working with tactile mediums, the necessity to balance them with digital techniques, and the importance of keeping a versatile practice.
How did you discover or get started with your handmade practice?
Mike:
After a long and sordid career in motion design and visual effects I was exhausted, creatively and spiritually (those may be the same thing). I had lost my passion, my health was suffering, and I didn?t know who I was as an artist. I was supposedly at the top of my field, but I had no idea where I was going. The work I was doing wasn't very good either. I thought I had to make what everyone else was making to be accepted, and to have a job. But not following my own voice was killing me.
One day, something incredible happened. I found myself with the opportunity to direct a project in stop motion, and the oyster, as they say, began to open. I discovered that I loved it, and wouldn?t you know it, other people loved it too. Something changed in me an