Team Rolfes
LadyPecs blasterX, Video, 2018
Strapped to an amalgamated powerlifting mecha machine and driven by a cartoonish hallucinatory audience, a woman reaches Temporary Terminal Transcendent Catharsis (i.e., a fraught nirvana that catalyzes the radiant bloom of her bubbling, evolving musculature).
Originally a work commissioned by Adult Swim's Off the Air series, the animation by Team Rolfes explores the concept of "paradise" as finding oneself within the extreme end of self-improvement. Both driven by self motivation and external pressures, the protagonist pushes herself beyond all boundaries, safety measures and human physiology to transform into a new state of being with both surreal beauty and questionable purpose.
Animation by Andy Rolfes, Sam Rolfes, Isiah Den Beste
Music by Sam Rolfes
Music by Sam Rolfes
Team Rolfes is a realtime performance and image house led by Sam Rolfes and Andy Rolfes, specializing in figurative animation, VR puppetry and mixed-reality collage.
The NYC-based studio's practice expresses itself across multiple industries and platforms such as livestream improvisational comedy, live motion-capture animation on large festival stages and in underground rave bunkers, print design for fashion collections, album covers, and music videos.