Skaffs

Skaffs

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Luke Feldman (born in Warrnambool, Victoria) is an Australian artist best known for his work collectively known as SKAFFS. He is a freelance illustrator, animator and sound producer. Feldman has been working within the design industry for over 10 years. Gaining his qualifications in Australia, Feldman fine tuned his technical illustrative and animation skills whilst developing a distinctive artistic style.

Feldman’s trademark is a heady mix of bright colours and razor sharp style mixed with an underlying, almost tangible naivety that make his illustrations easily recognizable in a world where originality is not as easy to find. Inspired by childhood experiences and a vivid imagination, his illustrations and animations are minimalist, with defined lines, detailed characters, and vividly vibrant colours that give his work depth and movement. Known for his whimsical females; the large, intense, eyes and fluid bodies are strangely erotic; yet maintain a distant, unattainable feeling. In these pieces, the female form has been reduced to its most basic points, without the need for vulgarity, yet these creatures are not quite human, transporting us into a fantasy.

Being a vastly prolific artist Feldman never has a shortage of new works being set loose on the world or just waiting in the wings to escape. His work, SKAFFS, has been exhibited worldwide and more notably has exhibited with Dr Seuss in Los Angeles alongside the "Horton Hears a Who" movie premier. His work has been featured in various international magazines. His distinctive style has led to a number of high profile illustration and animation projects. Some of the highlights include designing a 1-storey high booth at the MAC World Conference in San Francisco 2008, Flash animation and interactive content for Wallop, a Microsoft social-networking company, illustrations for Coca-Cola’s 2007 advertising campaign, Qantas 2009 Children's campaign, Facebook Flash Applications, Custo-Barcelona couture designs, Semipermanent’s 2007 publication, Desktop Magazine, Dpi magazine, Photoshop Magazine, Contagious Magazine, Staf Magazine, Playtimes Magazine and a Skaffs scoota customisation. In 2006, Luke launched a skate deck line, a vinyl adhesive line, and was a finalist in the “Cut & Paste” digital design tournament. In 2007, his work has been featured for Coca Cola, he was a finalist in the Erotic Art Prize, a finalist in the DeskTop Create Awards illustration competition and a finalist in the Addicting Games “Shoot Em’ Up” Flash game design competition. His animation (Flash animation and music created by Luke Feldman) featured at Comic-con’s 2007 International Independent Film Festival [ url=http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_iff_thu.shtml] and on Channel Frederator. In 2007, he signed with Wheaty Wheat Studios to produce a line of Misskaffs vinyl toys. At the 2007 Comic-Con he launched his Skaffs vinyl toy prototype “Misskaffs Mai”. [ url=http://forums.kidrobot.com/viewtopic.php?t=85752] At the 2008 Wonder-Con, he launched his SKAFFS-Maiko resin toy.

In 2009, he will launch his first children's book of the 'Chaff n Skaffs' series through San Francisco's Immedium publishers.

References

External links

* [http://www.skaffs.com Skaffs website]
* [http://www.lukefeldman.com Luke Feldman website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/skaffs SKAFFS Myspace Site]
* [http://forums.kidrobot.com/viewtopic.php?t=85752 Kidrobot Discussion on Misskaffs Mai]
* [http://www.channelfrederator.com/episode/CFR_20070731 Channel Frederator SKAFFS Who Saved The Moon]
* [http://www.popcling.com/shopcontent.asp?type=Feldman Pop Cling SKAFFS Products]


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