Emmy award winning artist, Raoul Marks, first created a title sequence featuring an astronaut for the Semi Permanent design festival in 2015. In the spirit of open source, he released the authoring files for others to freely use and repurpose. They have since been downloaded well over 40,000 times, seeding the proliferation of astronaut artworks that subsequently flooded Instagram and crypto platforms. Minted from the original as a unique NFT, this is the OG Astro. Rendered as a looping video, it captures an astronaut in a slow motion tumble through space, musing on the isolation and solitude of the artist’s practice.
Emmy award winning artist Raoul Marks (b. 1983), is well known for his work helping to craft some of the most iconic title sequences of his generation, including opening credits for True Detective, Westworld, The Crown, Halt and Catch Fire, American Gods, and Man in the High Castle.
For the 2015 Semi Permanent design festival, he created a title sequence featuring an astronaut. In the spirit of open source, he released the authoring files for others to freely use and repurpose. These files have since been downloaded well over 40,000 times, seeding the proliferation of astronaut artworks that have subsequently flooded Instagram and crypto platforms. Marks’ work is informed by his keen interest in how small-scale studios can leverage the design and rendering power once only accessible to large industry-scale production companies. He lives and works in Melbourne.