Already Been Chewed

We are hyped to shout out the release of the new Already Been Chewed motion reel.  The reel is a montage of Barton Damer’s motion design work. We joined forces with the organizers of the D-town Throwdown Skateboard Competition to premiere the video on the large HD screen at the American Airlines Center in Victory [...]

Last week Flame’s album, The 6th, debuted at #1 in the TOP Hip Hop/Rap Albums on iTunes Music.  For this album cover Barton worked with the hip-hop recording artist to bring to life a concept that illustrates the name and meaning of his newest album.  This being Flame’s 6th album, he requested to have a number [...]

Barton was recently featured in a four page interview by Computer Arts Magazine.  The article discusses Barton’s journey from drawing boring patent patterns to creating sizzling 3D typography, motion design, and how he continues to stay inspired.  CLICK HERE FOR THE INTERVIEW

With over 40 years of collective skateboarding experience at ABC, working with Rob Dyrdek and Street League has been a dream come true for Barton and me.  We have recently teamed up with Street League to create animated intros for the Monster Mic’d Up, Contest Highlights, and Monster Best Trick videos currently featured on Street [...]

We had a great trip up to Portland a couple weeks ago.  Barton was invited by MAXON to speak on his use of C4D for design, illustration and animation at 3DPDX, a user group for 3d artists, animators, and designers.  It was awesome to meet some great designers from all over the greater Portland area.  While in [...]

This piece was was created as a full page illustration and featured as a step-by-step workshop in ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP ISSUE 91. The concept was inspired by my experience starting Already Been Chewed LLC and going into business for myself. I wanted the roller coaster to symbolize the ups and downs, scary and exhilarating moments of [...]

I’m really grateful that I won the Veer Creative Catalyst competition. Veer is a highly regarded resource in the design industry. As a result of winning 1st place, my work was put on display at Onedotzero in London as well as projected in public spaces in Berlin (see pic below). Veer also donated $2,000 to [...]

About a year ago I helped a group of extremely talented skateboarders put together some design and motion work for a contest they were entering for The Berrics. They ended up winning the contest and beating out videos submitted from across the globe. The prize was a week long – all expenses paid trip – [...]

Creating concert visuals are always a blast! This year for Story, Ben Arment enlisted me to break out some old-school VJ skills from back in the day with an added twist. The visuals were created to blend with the live footage using Arkaos GrandVJ. It’s pretty amazing to be able to accept a live camera [...]

Here is a new spot I worked on with Ryan Smith for the HUAWEI Ascend II Smart Phone. Sound design by Austin Black.