Kitty Turley and Belle Palmer Take Charge at Strange Beast
From the release: Heading into it’s tenth year, creative studio Strange Beast has injected brand new energy at the top level. Executive Producers Kitty Turley and Belle Palmer will build on the strong...
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“The Biggest Story” Chapter 1
Commissioned by a not-for-profit Christian ministry to promote a book by Kevin DeYoung, this vibrant and detail-rich sequence from the team of Vancouver animator/CD Jorge Rolando Canedo Estrada (aka...
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DixonBaxi Takes on the Premier League
London motion mavens DixonBaxi rethink how the Premier League connects with its two billion football fans, constructing a striking and expansive new broadcast packaging including show titles, in-match...
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Buck and The Barbarian Group: IBM “CDS Launch”
How do you sustain viewer interest for 75 seconds when you’re launching a product as dry and abstract as cloud data services for a company as massive and straight-laced as IBM? Like this… Start with a...
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Ariel Costa: Green Day “Bang Bang”
In direct contrast to his restrained and tasteful short film “Sins,” Los Angeles director, designer, animator Ariel Costa amps up his signature collage kinetics into a rough-and-ready promo for Green...
View ArticleMPC LA Moves to Culver City, Doubles Studio Space
From the release: After eight years in Santa Monica, MPC LA is moving to a 25,000-square-foot digital studio in Culver City. The innovative new space is twice the size of their old home and is located...
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Parallel Teeth: Ladi6 “Beffy”
Parallel Teeth (aka London director, animator, graphic artist Robert Wallace) dials up his off-beat wit and rhythmic charm in this music video for “Beffy” from New Zealand artist Ladi6, a non-stop...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes at Imaginary Forces
Imaginary Forces offers a peek into the process and passion behind three of their top-of-the-food-chain broadcast title projects. VINYL “Watch what elements were created, how moving images were...
View ArticleSibling Rivalry Signs Director Gerald Ding
From the release: New York-based production studio Sibling Rivalry adds even more versatility to its directorial roster by signing Gerald Ding, whose work canvasses the spectrum from commercials and...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes With Plenty on “Directv Rio 2016″
What started out for Buenos Aires studio Plenty as a straightforward project to recreate Rio de Janeiro in full CG, soon evolved into a complex experiment merging a sweeping practical MDF miniature of...
View ArticleAnimation Layout: Three-minute Masterclass
Relax for three minutes and watch as Marcin Jakubowski (art director at The SPA Studios in Madrid) revisits an old sketch and details his step-by-step process to turn it into a feature-quality animated...
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Denial of Service: Utter, Immediate & Emotional
If the incessantly upbeat drone of the media world has you staring at the clock and thinking about the bar, join us as we slip into the dark and refreshingly bullshit-free world of the musician and...
View ArticleGilles Desmadrille: “Sometimes I Stutter”
The sweetest animation you’ll see today is this PSA/short called “Sometimes I Stutter,” created by Belgian freelance designer and animator Gilles Desmadrille during his Graphic Design studies at the...
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Opening Titles: Netflix Doc Series “Fearless”
Dark and painterly vignettes from Mill+ open director Michael John Warren’s new Netflix doc series ‘Fearless’ which takes viewers deep into Brazilian bull riding culture and tracks the riders on their...
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H5: Dior 50 Years Eau Sauvage Director’s Cut
Sleek compositions and fluid transitions rendered in a minimal palette drawn from France’s Tricolor flag distinguish H5’s online video animated at Studio Wanda in Paris for Dior’s Eau Sauvage men’s...
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Hornbach “Your Project Only Belongs to You”
At the PromaxBDA conference in June, I lead off my annual State of Design session with a 60-second mini-masterpiece of character and VFX called “You’re alive. Do you remember?” created by Berlin agency...
View ArticleOverwatch: Embedding Action in Emotion
The immediate success of Overwatch, Blizzard’s team-based multiplayer first-person shooter (and the company’s first new gaming franchise since StarCraft in 1998), is due in large part to a series of...
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Mrzyk & Moriceau: The Avalanches “Subways”
Discovering new animation work from French directing duo Mrzyk & Moriceau is always a treat as it guarantees trippy, often outrageous imagery held together by a certain subversive sense of abandon....
View ArticlePixelar Animated Typeface
From the release: Pixelar is a modular animated pixel typeface. The characters are constructed from 50 unique animated squares. These animated squares can also be used to construct your own typography,...
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Hoji Tsuchiya: Uri Nakayama “Spring time-old man”
The off kilter music and lyrics of Japanese singer-songwriter (and hairdresser) Uri Nakayama finds a perfect mate in the playful, unstructured and unpredictable visual talents of Berlin-based...
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