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Men in Black, powerful story told through a soldiers drawings


Men in Black, powerful story told through a soldiers drawings

Posted on 11 November 2008 |

  • Evan Parsons

    This spot is actually titled ‘Men In Black’ and is a portion of the Oscar Nominated feature length documentary ‘Operation Homecoming’.

    It is a true story as told by a real soldier named Colby.

    The illustration was created by Portland Studios and the animation was done by Evan Parsons working with The Law of Few. The piece was commissioned by The Endowment of the Arts and featured on PBS in 2006.

    http://www.evanparsons.com
    http://www.thelawoffew.com
    http://www.portlandstudios.com

  • http://www.thedirtsyndicate.org TheDirtSyndicate
  • FakeGreenDress

    Operation Homecoming is a production of The Documentary Group and just won two Emmys in addition to the Oscar nomination.

    http://www.thedocumentarygroup.com/featuredProject.php?pid=6

  • http://www.gra-phix.com/ Joe Clay

    This has been out for a while. At the studio I was working at previously, we had this as a reference for a job we were working on.

  • http://www.gra-phix.com/ Joe Clay

    Oh and I meant to say that it’s fucking brilliant.

  • hunterleesoik

    Hello, so stoked this project made it here. Big up to Evan and Chris for the long nights and Richard Robbins and Kirstin Lesko for trusting our creativity.

  • http://www.CranstonDesign.com John

    Thanks for the extra info everyone!

  • http://www.gabrielrocha.com gabriel.rocha

    Amazing! Loved it… in every way!

  • Koelle

    Thanks for the love, everyone! MiB was definitely one of the best projects I’ve ever been a part of. Huge props to everyone involved (Evan, Hunter, Kristin, Richard, the list goes on)! So happy to finally see it made it up here.

    I posted a while ago about some of the process behind the artwork on my (old) blog:

    http://christopherkoelle.blogspot.com/2007/05/men-in-black-artwork.html

  • http://hire.christopherkoelle.com Koelle

    Hmmm, I think my comment didn’t work. Sorry if there ends up being duplicates…

    Thanks for the love, everyone. Evan, Hunter, The Law of Few, Kristin, Richard, etc. all made this a huge success. Definitely one of the most fantastic projects I’ve ever had the privilege to be a part of!

    A while ago I posted about the process behind the artwork on my (old) blog:

    http://christopherkoelle.blogspot.com/2007/05/men-in-black-artwork.html