Blue Sky Studios produced a heart warming documentary about children from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn who become pen pals with orphans from Freetown, Sierra Leone, called Brownstones to Red Dirt. To underline the value of the film, a Postcard Art project was launched, asking over 100 artists to create original artwork that will be auctioned to raise money to build a school for the children of Freetown, Sierra Leone.

More about the effort:
Two colleagues at Blue Sky Studios, David LaMattina and Chad Walker, have created a feature-length documentary about a pen pal program between a group of at-risk sixth graders living in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn and orphans from the war living in Freetown, Sierra Leone. This Postcard Art project is an extension of the their film “Brownstones To Red Dirt” which features children from both schools. The kids in both places have inspired us all to want to do more and so we’re putting together an art auction of original postcards based around the same central theme of the film in a fundraising effort to build a school for the orphans in Freetown, Sierra Leone and create a library for the youth at their school in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

The artwork created for the auction is absolutely stunning, including work from so many talented people. Featured above are two postcards from Scott Gustafson, and Isaac Orloff.

You can read more about the effort here, and be sure to visit the auction site! Proceeds are going to an amazing cause.

My close friend, Isaac Orloff recently contributed his talents to this fantastic motion piece for the US Census, in collaboration with Digital Kitchen’s NY office! Isaac has spent the last few years developing his own unique style of illustration, and it really shines through in this piece!

Take a look at the spot above, and then check out the rest of Isaac’s work here. Visit his blog too!