ION Studio

@ionstudioimage

AKA Justin Overell with Anthony Hearsey. An award winning retouching, CGI and image making studio producing beautiful images for the world.
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Who remembers the 70's? A time when the movie montage reigned supreme. For the latest edition of @supercheap_auto 's Best Performing Oils campaign, "Redline Squad", it was a no brainer to adopt this style, although, with modern timeframes, it would have taken an army of illustrators to meet those demands. With my continued development of understanding a modern Photography and AI workflow, I have mastered the tools required to deliver.. and this one turned out great! Photographed alongside the @taxi_film crew and @happydotfilm over 3 days with 100 plus crew, we were able to deliver a suite of traditional action photography alongside LORA trained AI models, as well as Logos, headers and signage used on set and to create every illustrated asset for the Supercheap design team to roll out their collateral in record time. Big Shouts to @reece.moger for driving the for the last 7 years I've been on the campaign. Also, @milesmurfy , @imogram , @greaneybrendan for their respective Direction, Production and collaborative efforts.... And of course—to the hundreds of talented people on set and behind the scenes who made this possible: your work shows in every frame. Too many to tag here, but if you were part of it, please drop a comment below—I’d love to celebrate it together. :) @juzzydigital .au
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8 months ago
I’m getting on the promo wheel as I’ve left it simmer for too long. Here’s one from last year that’s worth talking about. It’s the visual collateral for Melbourne Zoo and their Dino Animatronic displays across 5 of their Zoo’s. This job was a milestone as I had trained AI models from client supplied photographs of their Dino Robots. It was a totally different process to what I’ve been doing for the past 25 years of honing my craft, but because the tides are turning and jobs are beginning to utilise an AI workflow, I trained myself to get good at it. I managed to train 6 different LORA models of various species, so I was able to prompt them in situ and correct pose according to the client’s layout and brief. It wasn’t the same process as the ‘What you see what you get’ process, but more of a, ‘pin the tail on the donkey’ and hope it goes to plan, which it did. Good enough to award me a Bronze award at the BADC’s, which I’m fairly sure is the first AI Craft award in Brisbane, maybe even Australia. It’ didnt give me the same fuzzy feeling as something hand done, but nonetheless, it was a relief it seemed worthy, because it was still a decent amount of work. :) Thanks to the crew @hardhatagency for making it all possible. .au . . . . . . . . . . . . #ionstudiophoto #creativeimaging #photography #retouching #imagemaking #AI #graphicdesign #digitalart #illustration #cgi #typography #artdirection #concept #tvc #mattepainting #compositing #advertisingphotographer
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1 year ago
Another vehicle launch for the 2025 Isuzu MUX is now done and dusted. Using a combination of quality photography from @erikwilliamson_photographer and an increasing library of technical tools in our arsenal, we @ionstudioimage were able to produce these high resolution images, in every vehicle variant for the global market. Again, due to the limited availability of the new vehicles, our 3D workflow came up trumps once again, proving we have the ability to exceed client expectations and timelines with this process. Big thanks to our good friends @isuzuute_aus and @isuzuthailandofficial .au . . . . . . . . . . . . #ionstudiophoto #creativeimaging #photography #retouching #imagemaking #graphicdesign #digitalart #illustration #cgi #typography #artdirection #concept #tvc #mattepainting #compositing #advertisingphotographer
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1 year ago
Oh yeah, picked up some awards at the recent BADC’s. One for our work with Isuzu Ute and one for Melbourne Zoo’s Dino’s. After 27 years of entering, we’re still walking away with lolly bags :) Big thanks to our friends at @isuzuute_aus UTE AUSTRALIA and @hardhatagency Creative for trusting us with our craft. I’ll go a bit more in depth with these projects in a future post
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1 year ago
This work for The Queensland Governments 'Nothing Sweet about Vapes' is a great example of using AI in our workflow. We needed to produce a number of gritty scenarios for the opening scene in the latest TVC campaigns to illustrate some of the dirty practise within vape substance manufacturing. Using photoshop and seesawing with stable diffusion gave us the ability to use prompting with image control to create various weathering, time of day and ambient scenarios to give us a plethora of looks and feels. It gives us the ability to alter on the fly with director @gerardlambkin in record time, then handing over to @ruckus.studio for the final motion treatment. .au . . . . . . . . . . . . #ionstudiophoto #creativeimaging #photography #retouching #imagemaking #graphicdesign #digitalart #illustration #cgi #typography #artdirection #concept #tvc #mattepainting #compositing #advertisingphotographer
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2 years ago
Bingo All Stars 2062 Supercheap Performing Oils 'Retirement Rampage' Watch the video --> /watch?v=P9pc3Na4ZCU @craiglowndes888 @molly_rally @chazmozzie @daffidreynolds @mattmingay @j_moffat @grantdenyer @taxi_film @ionstudioimage @steve_mena @juzzydigital @supercheap_auto
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2 years ago
The latest Supercheap Performing Oils campaign 'Retirement Rampage' was truly awesome to be a part of. Here's 9 of the 14000 shot's taken over 4 days. Massive thanks to @reece.moger and @supercheap_auto for having me on it for the 5th consecutive year. Also to @taxi_film for putting this complex production together Too many people were involved but the main hero's here are @nulonproducts @valvolineglobalau @mobil1_retail_australia @penriteracing @castrolracinganz @taxi_film @theskidfactory @mightycarmods @daffidreynolds @molly_rally @chazmozzie @j_moffat @mattmingay @carlcoxofficial @milesmurfy @imogram @bigdnorm and so many more !!
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2 years ago
I didn’t have time to sit back and watch 30 years of honing a digital craft to now seem worthless due to the fact that AI had just popped in to eat my dinner. Instead I’m here to show it some table manners. This recent job was a good testing ground to build an AI workflow into my virtual production. These 3 images were created via AI, 3D and some photography with traditional retouching. The big problem with most AI image creation is control. As the tech speeds up, the control get’s easier with plugins like Control Net added to Stable Diffusion allowing us to alter parts or all of an image on the fly. We didn’t get wet, drink any plastic bottled water, or burn any petrol to get to locations. It made sense to try and contain the project within a virtual production space to compare to how we do things to produce commercial art in the real world. I’d say this was a greener way to compliment this series of images for @4changeqld via @bcmgroupaus Big thanks to @andyward7099 for encouraging me to produce this series using AI, because it’s only a matter of time before this stuff is mainstream. .au . . . . . . . . . . . . #ionstudiophoto #creativeimaging #photography #retouching #imagemaking #AI #graphicdesign #digitalart #cgi #compositing #advertisingphotographer
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2 years ago
Our work for the Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show came together pretty well considering we had a few constraints in that closing down a harbour and capturing all vendors vessels wasn't really in budget, so we did it virtually. We managed to secure various aerial shots of vendors vessels, which we then built a 20,000 pixel high res image with a little help from our friend @ankurpatar and then took the still layered image to create the animated version. we like to get our toes wet and solve many visual problems 🐳 .au . . . . . . . . . . . . #ionstudiophoto #creativeimaging #photography #retouching #imagemaking #graphicdesign #digitalart #illustration #cgi #typography #artdirection #concept #tvc #mattepainting #compositing #advertisingphotographer
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2 years ago
Some of our latest work for the Supercheap Oils campaign, shot over 4 days and created alongside the 4.5 minute viral and TVC campaign. Theis is the 4th year we've been producing the stills component single handedly and we can't wait to do it again.. That's a-lot of 4's ;) .au . . . . . . . . . . . . #ionstudiophoto #creativeimaging #photography #retouching #imagemaking #graphicdesign #digitalart #illustration #cgi #typography #artdirection #concept #tvc #mattepainting #compositing #advertisingphotographer
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3 years ago
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3 years ago
Whip Cars, Not Horses!
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3 years ago