White Matter

White Matter

2021

2021

Motion Design

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Portrait of a person holding a green tube against a deep red background.

White Matter is a conceptual image and motion study built from surfaces in transition. Water held on a leaf, close portraiture and shifting editorial frames suggested a campaign language concerned with reflection, pressure and the moment a material changes state.

The creative system moves between macro detail and the human figure. Slow sequences allow texture to accumulate; shorter cuts interrupt with colour, gesture and type. Green, black and skin tones provide a grounded palette, while titles remain spare and fixed so that movement can carry the expressive work.

Otho defined a set of repeatable behaviours for short films, digital fragments and still campaign layouts. Crops open and close around the subject, reflections recur as transitions, and each sequence resolves into a held image that can work independently. The result is a fictional platform with continuity across static and moving formats. White Matter is recognised not through a single symbol, but through a consistent attention to surface, duration and the space between one image and the next.

Printed editorial pieces held beneath a car windscreen wiper.

CREDITS

Creative Direction — Sara Yan

Art Direction — Noah Smith

Motion Design — Mason Carter

Close portrait of a person in black clothing under dramatic light.
Profile portrait with a pleated white headpiece against a dark background.

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