Adobe MAX 2025 Creativity Award Honoree — Personal Image Making

Thomas Dubois

Filmmaker and creative director

Keshiki: Echoes of Colorado

Keshiki: Echoes of Colorado is a series of digital artworks that bridges continents, Colorado’s rugged topographies seen through the lens of Japanese landscape traditions. In Japanese, keshiki (景色) means “scenery,” but it also carries the mood, memory, and soul of a place. That’s the heart of this work; it’s about reimagining this place through the poetics of brushwork, textures, and light.

I use restrained palettes and deliberate strokes to translate early-morning fog, the golden silence that follows a thunderstorm, and that tension between vast scale and intimate detail. The aim is to let gesture and restraint do the talking, to blend traditional forms with modern tools and find a new visual emotion in a familiar terrain.

In a visual culture that rewards speed and certainty, this project invites the viewer to slow down and engage, to experience a place through its mood, colors, and the in-between.

Artist bio

Thomas Dubois is a filmmaker and creative director with a foundation in architecture. Trained to think in space, sequence, and structure, he applies the discipline’s core principles to every frame—shaping composition, rhythm, and narrative with intent. He treats the frame like a plan: movement follows clear lines, light defines volumes, and blocking guides the viewer through narrative space.

Whether directing or designing, the result is a visual language that is restrained yet evocative—stories built with structure, atmosphere, and emotional clarity. His work spans films, Visual creations, pitch materials, and visual development for narrative IP, all unified by a meticulous, design-driven process that conveys his unique sensibilities into mesmerizing narratives.

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Soft morning haze settles over high hills.
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Warm evening light hits a row of red-gold cliffs, with snow mountains fading into cool blue. Low clouds and a still lake create a serene atmosphere, making the scene feel quiet and timeless.
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A solitary rock rises from scrub. Sunlight hits one side warm and gold while the other side stays cool in the shadow of a passing cloud. Rough, visible brushstrokes give the slope texture and grit.
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A long wall of red cliffs catches a break of light under a heavy sky. Small birds flicker like white sparks along the rock face. It feels like the land is pausing between rain and sun.
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A wide cliff holds a thin stroke of warm light while the rest of the mountain slips into evening.