Aaron Sacco's Blog

Monday, March 14, 2016

SXSW: Tower Screening

"Just flat out brilliant work."
- Ain't It Cool News

Reviews:
Ain't It Cool News: here.
Hollywood Reporter: here.
Austin Chronicle: here.

Thursday, March 03, 2016

Tower Documentary - Featured in Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones has just featured 'Tower' among the 25 films they are most excited to see during SXSW 2016. Check it out: here.

Also, check out www.towerdocumentary.com and the official facebook page.

Leader's Edge

Link to Article: Here.

"What do they know that we don't? The terminally ill in Grand Rapids live longer and better and for 44% less."

Tower Documentary - Premiere at SXSW

TOWER SXSW World Premiere Trailer from keith maitland on Vimeo.

After spending over a year creating animation for Tower, I am proud and excited to announce that we will be premiering it at SXSW. The documentary tells the story of the mass shooting that occurred in 1966 on UT Campus by gunman Charles Whitman.

"Documentarian Keith Maitland uses first-person testimonies from witnesses to recreate Whitman's killing spree from various ground-level perspectives; he also uses rotoscoped animation to lend the entire proceedings a creepy, surreal feeling of distance as a normal Texas day turns into a waking nightmare." - Rolling Stones.

Forbes - January Issue

Forbes - Portrait

Friday, August 08, 2014

"Anytime"

My friend Timothy Palmer asked me to create a piece of artwork for his new single "Anytime." So after playing it through several times and sketching out a few ideas, I began to think of William Turner's haunting, atmospheric landscapes with all that beautiful built up texture. I thought it would be fun to mix it up a bit and create it using the latest tools in my toolbox: an iPad, a Jot Touch stylus and Procreate. I finished it up in photoshop.