Name: Brian Castleforte Country:  USA Job: Artist and motion graphics designer/animator
URL: http://www.castleforte.com About: Professionally, creating cutting edge film and television graphics for over 10 years, for many of the industries best and brightest studios and agencies such as brand new school, imaginary forces, exopolis, buck, logan, blind, to name a few, for clients such as nike, sony, warner brothers, bacardi, madonna, mtv, etc. proudly listed among the cream o the crop on motionographer.com. Personally, creating everything from original character illustrations, custom toys and paper craft, to, more recently, designing original games for the iphone. Known by some as nicebunny. creator of nicebunny.com and nicepapertoys.com, the first and only paper toy social network. Featured, interviewed, mentioned, in countless blogs, zines, web sites, etc, for everything from motion graphics to paper toys. recently included in the book, urban paper, featuring 26 of the worlds most notable paper toy artists. Always keeping very busy, doing motion graphics, designing an original iphone game, solo and group art shows, artist collaborations, custom toy designs, two more paper toy book inclusions on the horizon, running nicepapertoys.com, connecting with nicebunny fans, social networking like crazy, raising two awesome puppies and being a loving husband of 14 years, with no end to the beautiful madness in sight. Get inspired by: For me inspiration comes from anything and everything that elicits strong feelings within me. And being the very passionate and feeling person that I am, this happens a lot. I get very excited about many things, especially things that are man-made. That’s not to say that I am not a lover of natural things, on the contrary. But I find the amazing things that humans do to be absolutely mind-blowing at times. Especially when it comes to things like art, animation, movies, video games, music and toys. I love all things animated… cartoons, stop motion, 3D, motion graphics, etc. I think you will find that much of my illustration work could easily be a frame from an animation. And many of them are still waiting to one day be animated. I also really love anything character driven. Doesn’t matter if it’s cute or dark, art or a video game,  paper or plastic, pencil or digital, color or black & white, I love it all. As a result the only constant you will find in my work, as in life, is change.