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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

a few closeups of the Dawn of Chromatica cover

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

individual fragments of the cover image, for anyone who wants to remix their own 🦷✨

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

:) cover by me, @AndrewRolfes and SA Mayer

Lady Gaga

@ladygaga

3 years

DAWN OF CHROMATICA ⚔️💚💗 THE REMIX ALBUM SEPTEMBER 3 PRE-SAVE NOW

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

4 years

i know it was one of yall....

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

leaking one pixel from the cover image every day until debut.. this one's a fav, pixel 1750x1777

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

details on our remix of Norbert Schoerner’s portrait for Dawn of Chromatica — hq here:

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

4 years

our #sourcandy visualizer for @ladygaga @ygofficialblink was updated to full 4K 60fps, so here's a character thread 😈🍬🦷🦑 first the sculpts themselves:

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

cheat sheet

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

just as none of the remixes would be possible without Lady Gaga, none of our visual remixes of the original album’s artwork for Dawn of Chromatica would have been possible without @100BRBR @trvsbrthrs @lilpulp @cavecanems @dayfornightlab & their team creating the entire world 💖

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

I gotta say in an industry that’s often callous and hostile to artists, the LG team has been some of the most creatively supportive we’ve ever worked with ever since the Sour Candy video — also @bloodpop ily 💚🤺

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

i trained an AI on a hundred thousand drawings of me going outside and never looking at a screen again, and this is what it exported

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

idk how my pfp is animating, I streamed Dawn of Chromatica 1000 times and it just started happening…

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

fold-out poster design for @ladygaga 's Dawn of Chromatica vinyl and CD avail now on we wanted to make something as massive and intense as possible for everyone who so kindly supported the album

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sam rolfes

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

1 year

PC Music showed that truly avant garde artists can make complex work within a popular language that a broader audience can engage with -- and we're worse off without it! 💔

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

the original cover is embedded in almost every piece, we started with it as the foundation and grew the 3D forms from it, taking a lot of care to retain photographic references to the original — and splicing in a little Sour Candy fairy DNA along the way 😈

RICARDO ⚔️👹

@ARTISemoji

3 years

@samrolfes @AndrewRolfes @team_rolfes @ladygaga I noticed the reflection of the original artwork. It’s giving alternate universe 👀

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

album art in the streaming age should never have text on it, the title is right there below the image! let me just look at the pretty image!

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

4 years

all characters were puppetted live in VR, we spent a long time flying around with them, getting to know their personalities and how they moved so we could dance together 🌺💕

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

the armor’s textures are partially collaged from the Sine metal in the original cover, so basically yes

Cece ✨🖤

@CantReadMyJudas

3 years

Wait idk if anyone said this yet but did the Sine Wave holding her down melt around her to become her armor??? 🤯🤯🤯 @samrolfes

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

closeups of the front of the fold-out poster for @ladygaga 's Dawn of Chromatica CD + Vinyl

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

1 year

counterpoint to frutiger aero, just heard 'metalheart' is the name for the style that's lived in the base of my skull for the last 20 years

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

2 years

i don’t have an alt to post this on

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

design by Kristyna Kulikova, remixed armor by SA Mayer

Lady Gaga

@ladygaga

3 years

@bloodpop @lsdxoxo_ @coucou_chloe @arca1000000 @rinasawayama @clarenceclarity @pabllovittar @charli_xcx @agcook404 @ashnikko @0800shygirl @mura_masa_ @dossxoxo @dorianelectra @chesterlockhart @moodkillermusic @liltexas @planningtorock @breerunway @jimmyedgar @hauslabs

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

wait... this is the dawn of chromatica color scheme

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WAIT WAIT STOP THIS IS BIG

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@ladygaga

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

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we made like 150 different merch mockups, most were too wild to produce but here's a few favs:

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

last night, someone walked into my dear friend's bar Rash, a place known for being a queer music haven, poured gasoline all over the floor, and lit it. everyone survived thankfully, but they need help with repairs, medical, and lost wages:

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

4 years

making art for free to be posted on apps that determine what’s good based off what boosts engagement for its advertisers, is truly the most cucked thing imaginable and I’m embarrassed I continue to do it

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sam rolfes

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4 years

biblically-accurate CDJ angel

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3 years

garys mod was the original and only legitimate metaverse

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

5 years

HORSE GALLOP GIRL INSTA IS FUCKING LIT!!! 🏇🏻🏇🏻🔥🔥🔥

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

3D remix of Norbert Schoerner's beautiful portrait by myself, @AndrewRolfes and S.A Mayer w @team_rolfes ~

Lady Gaga

@ladygaga

3 years

PAIN IS A SINE #DawnofChromatica I invite you to dance to this album in celebration of young artists all over the world. Artists who see the world, feel the world, and put that feeling into something bigger than all of us: music. All love, LG xx

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

4 years

feeling great about the future #DemConvention

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

Dawn of Chromatica hand by myself, @AndrewRolfes and S.A Mayer w @team_rolfes

Lady Gaga

@ladygaga

3 years

I’D DO ANYTHING FOR YOU TO REALLY SEE ME

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

4 years

many of us made it through “the beat scene”, “”glitch hop””, “””deconstructed club”””, yall will make it through hyperpop i promise

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

4 years

no disrespect to my fellow rave flyer designers but maybe an aesthetic characterized by distorted illegible text isn’t the best one to pull out for your structural racism explainer posts

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

sincerely appreciate everyone tagging us in the posts about the cover 💖💖💖 visual artists are frequently overlooked when new projects come out, so it means a lot :,)

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

1 year

witnessing all the deeply insane art people made was the best part of working on this

Gaga Daily

@gagadaily

1 year

2 years ago today, Lady Gaga released Dawn of Chromatica, a reimagining of her 2020 album featuring appearances by Charli XCX, Pabllo Vittar, Arca, Shygirl, Rina Sawayama, Ashnikko & more. What’s your favorte track on the album?

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sam rolfes

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3 years

weirdest thing i've ever seen on google maps, tf is this thing

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@samrolfes

3 years

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bl💿💿dp💿p!

@bloodpop

3 years

@ffffff33922550 Ask @samrolfes

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

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cover for @umru_ 's comfort noise EP

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i'm ignoring paid work to make this

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im sick of VR man

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

4 years

saw a guide posted by someone who spoke with insta’s internal team that said you’ll get deprioritized in the algorithm if you’re not like posting 7 reels a week and i really wonder what the breaking point will be for these platforms making us dance for them

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

IRL dress print I designed for Nicopanda FW16 ——> our digital dress for Dawn of Chromatica 2021 long time coming 😇

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

4 years

this looks cool but it’s funny to me how on the higher end of virtual events, it’s basically just a 100% scripted game cutscene — none of the community, interactivity or risk of shows like @OpenPitPresents ’s

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

8 years

🚨 ITS OUT, ITS LIMP my fleshy music game w @laserberg for @adultswim just dropped #threejs

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

i was worried about falling out of step with culture during the last year, but with all these festival lineups booking the fav artists of a Vice writer from 2012 as headliners, I think i'll be fine

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

3 years

neon acid green-screen felt like the most intensely digital palette to pair with the original tones, alternate-online-reality-mashup vibe lol

Anthony 👹 Lady Gaga News

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@samrolfes what made u & the team choose a green aesthetic for the cover? I think it’s STUNNING and fits perfectly

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

4 years

I am not a strong enough shitposter to finish this

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

4 years

oh christ it’s the NFT awards and we ruined it to raise money for our experimental music game:

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sam rolfes

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spec work is bad even if the people asking for it are very cool! resist the temptation to give over free work without compensation!

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Competition/3D work opportunity- please anyone skilled with 3d objects live manipulation and audio reactive rendering 3d sculpture stuff. Please send experiments with section of remix album of your choice... looking for audio reactivity and quality of 3d modeling/color painting!

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

4 years

finally own a controller for the first time in years, no more rentals my god!!

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4 years

mid crash motor bikes

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

4 years

Director, Animator: Sam Rolfes Animator: Andy Rolfes Producer, AI Artist: Kara Kittel Production Company: Team Rolfes 3D Tech Artists: Nicole Ruggiero, Alexander Baumann, Damien Blaise Overlay: Kristyna Kulikova, Simon Kounovsky FX: Travis Treadway, Derric Eady, David Johnson

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suppressing the loneliness of not being able to dance in a club with friends has never felt more searing than it does now

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@samrolfes

3 years

🐛🐌🦗new video for living legend @dannyelfman made by puppeting 80+ bugs in VR bug bug bug

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3 years

cover for @umru_ 's heart2 ft @MsRebeccaBlack @PetalSupply 🫀2️⃣

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@samrolfes

4 years

my birthday wish is for all digital artists reading this to cut out all the the techno-utopianist shit for the day 😇

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@samrolfes

3 years

@AndrewYang yeah you don’t speak for me or anyone else in this city. free Palestine.

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imagine turning 32 and still calling yourself a “digital artist” LOL grow up 😐

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working on my sepiroth cosplay

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sam rolfes

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is anyone else’s social circle spinning out of control with increasingly niche Uncut Gems memes or just mine

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4 years

god what an absolutely immeasurable loss

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

4 years

Philip Glass becoming a shitposter is the last bit of evidence I needed to confirm that reality is an illusion constructed from my Pandora recommendations in 2010

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5 years

omg i'm so excited to have the absolutely not dead joe biden on my new show!!

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3 years

goop is girl 🤢💚cover for #goophouse

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

1 year

i'm getting reports our new video for metallica has killed dozens, perhaps hundreds of their fans 😓 if you're a fan of real music DO NOT WATCH

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some unreleased lettering from the archive

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

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we basically played a video game on stage for a couple thousand people this summer

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@samrolfes

4 years

hyperpop is a corny name but it really can’t compare to the embarrassment of having to tell someone you listen to “Intelligent Dance Music” back in the day

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4 years

i miss the era of DJ controllers where turntablists got control of the wheel for a couple years and made some of the most unhinged designs possible

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looks like the vinyl is shipping 🤩 can’t wait to get mine lmao

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bjork ⍙⏃⌰☍⟒⎅’d so grimes could ⏃̡̡̙͉̗̪͙͖̰͙̰̖͎̮̟̳͙̜͖͔̓̇̍̎̊̄̈́͐̏͐̑̇̐̽̾̔̾̉̀̉̏̿͜͢͜͢͞͡͞ͅ⌰̨̨̛̛̣͚̠͎̗̺̟̖̼͉̙̩̦̬̖̺͎̞̰͖͆̆̄̓̆̊̾̓̅̉̇͋̌̅̏̎͑̇̂̔̌̿͢͢͞ͅꌅꌈ

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

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played a pulsating stunt dummy in this alongside Freeka 💞🤝💞

Warp Records

@WarpRecords

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Oneohtrix Point Never ( @0PN ) unveils ‘A Barely Lit Path’ Dir. by Freeka Tet Watch now →

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

4 years

wait people are speedrunning dreams now?? 🤨

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3 years

cover collab w @umru_ for his track check1 feat @tommycashworld @645ARofficial

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@samrolfes

1 year

a mashup as illegal as Krabby Step x Faceshopping can only be done in international waters

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@samrolfes

3 years

this is what I look like when I’m tweeting, fyi

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2 years

got back w Dawn of Chromatica designer Kristyna Kulikova for our debut club-theatre show's flyer

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2 years

am I doing this right

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4 years

my painting mentor just moved his studio into a derelict church

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@samrolfes

5 years

few know this but the 100 gecs tree was captured a while ago and is now kept in strict captivity, its really sad to see

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

8 months

with Vice’s site being deleted today, we’re backing up our most precious online asset… the Team Rolfes Gagapedia entry…

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the set-up the shot

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@samrolfes

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our first project in years that’s entirely ours starts now…

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@samrolfes

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the idea that the pandemic is going to cause a renaissance without any increased funding to artists is just more rise'n'grind hustle culture bullshit based on the idea creativity is best wrung from human suffering

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

5 years

just because bad art is an inevitability in late captialism doesn't mean we can't name it as such, it feels like there's a tendency to self consciously accept all trash cultural output as valuable just because it's contemporary and you're afraid of looking old and out of touch.

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sam rolfes

@samrolfes

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video for @DannylHarle @ClubHarlecore first single, DJ Danny - On A Mountain, up now in 4k60 :)) one of our favs we've worked on ily Danny 🌋🌋🌋