GMUNK and The Mill Spin “Pure Imagination” for Audi A5
Nexus director GMUNK teams with the VFX crew at The Mill in London to plunge you into an AI’s vivid data dream – part of the launch campaign for the new Audi A5 thru BBH. GMUNK: “The goal was to...
View ArticleGetting “Fired Up” and Saying Goodbye
With President Obama leaving office this week, we wanted to publish a piece that captured some of the eloquence, charm, and narrative ability he brought to the hardest job in the world. We found it in...
View ArticleBehind The Scenes #UnitedNotDivided
With the inauguration of the 45th US president only hours away, this explosive call to unity by NYC director and visual engineer Steve Giralt bears a powerful message, “Democracy doesn’t require...
View ArticleWatch the Stash 121 Preview!
Here’s a little counter-programming for inauguration day 2017, a snappy two-minute peek at the 31 new animation, VFX and design projects included in Stash 121 and now part of the Stash Permanent...
View ArticleWorkhouse Creative Signs CG Director Renato Marques
From the release: Seattle-based branded content studio Workhouse Creative has added Renato Marques to its roster of directors for exclusive U.S. commercial representation. Marques has extensive...
View ArticleZaoeyo Opens Pause 2017
If, like us (and most of the planet), you were enthralled by the refractive magic of the spec title sequence “Organic Machines” by Beijing visual designer Zaoeyo (Xiaolin Zeng), then you’ll certainly...
View ArticleMK12 Unleashes “MAN OF ACTION! II: Ashes Of Vengeance”
Kansas City motion mavens MK12 promise to MAKE AMERICA SEXY AGAIN™ and here’s the proof: a 12-minute venture into camp-retro-future-Nazi-weirdness called “MAN OF ACTION! II: Ashes of Vengeance,”...
View ArticleVeteran EP Kitty Snyder Joins Artifact Design
From the release: Atlanta, GA — (January 19, 2017) — Creative studio Artifact Design is pleased to welcome postproduction veteran Kitty Snyder as Executive Producer. In this role, she will bring her...
View ArticleFriends Electric Launches: Roster Includes Pete Candeland and Polynoid
From the release: Friends Electric, headed up by Alex Webster, is a brand new full-service production company and creative consultancy based in London and LA originating from one of the most forward...
View ArticlePartizan Befriends Radical Friend
From the release: Radical Friend, the directing duo of Kirby McClure and Julia Grigorian, has joined Partizan. The Radical Friend aesthetic consistently stands in a class of its own; each frame of...
View ArticleJoseph Blanc: Dead Seem Old “This Mess Won’t Make Itself”
Dark, dreamlike and superbly crafted, this music video by Marseille motion designer Joseph Blanc for “This Mess Won’t Make Itself” by London indie pop group Dead Seem Old, toys with and then eradicates...
View ArticleHUSH Appoints Eloise Murphy as Senior Producer
From the release: Experience design agency HUSH has expanded its creative production team by appointing Eloise Murphy as Senior Producer. A long time admirer of HUSH, Murphy was initially intrigued by...
View ArticleOscar Hudson: Bonobo “No Reason (ft. Nick Murphy)”
Rising star director Oscar Hudson strings together 10 actors in 18 rooms with only two long tracking shots, one edit and zero VFX in this music video for the new Bonobo track “No Reason” – designed to...
View ArticleUK Post and Creative Shop Freefolk Opens New York Studio
From the release: A brand new British invasion comes to the US as Freefolk, one of the UK’s top post production studios, which opens its first office in New York City this month. Acclaimed Colorist...
View ArticleBif Drop Shy Luv “Shock Horror, feat. Jones”
Mill+ directors bif dispatch electro-pop duo Shy Luv and their CG clones “on a provocative and elegant quest for love, as if they were puppets traveling through a surreal landscape.” bif: “In terms of...
View ArticleMPC and Riff Raff: Weird and Wonderful MailChimp Worlds
Riff Raff directing duo Ed Kaye and Alex Mavor (aka The Sacred Egg) team with the MPC VFX crew to nail three weird and wonderful spots to the wall for Mail Chimp thru Droga5. Alex Lovejoy, VFX...
View ArticleDress Code Admits to “Coke Habit”
For their first in-house animated short, New York prodco Dress Code tackles a story of childhood addiction. In production for two years, the film renders a complex issue in a stark palette punctuated...
View ArticleNineteentwenty Welcomes Duncan Horn as VFX Supervisor
From the release: Accomplished VFX artist strengthens London office after 15 years at Glassworks Nineteentwenty has announced the appointment of Duncan Horn, who joins the company’s London office from...
View ArticleGoudy & Syracuse: The Tale of a Typeface Found
New York prodco Dress Code relays the story of rediscovering Sherman, a typeface designed by Frederic Goudy in 1910 and revived by Pentagram in 2016 as the official font of Syracuse University....
View ArticleStudio Lovelock: “A is for Albert”
Inspired by the rollercoaster peaks and perils of parenthood, London creative director Joe Lovelock creates a typographic homage to the finer moments of child-rearing. Joe Lovelock: “This is a side...
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