Sonos Sub Mini Product Film by FutureDeluxe
Following up on their bright and playful work for the Sonos Roam portable smart speaker, the crew at FutureDeluxe just dropped a darker and more mysterious treatment for the audio brand’s new wireless...
View ArticleNZMobile “Against the War” Game Trailer by Somei Sun and Friends
The mobile version of Tencent Game’s multiplayer online first-person shooter Assault Fire, launches with a trailer full of atmosphere, grit, and glitchy CG surprises courtesy of director Somei Sun and...
View ArticlePixar Vet and Oscar-Winner Alan Barillaro Joins Passion Pictures as Creative...
From the release: PASSION Pictures today announces the hire of Academy Award-winning director Alan Barillaro as a creative director for PASSION PICTURES’ Animation division, marking the studios...
View Article“Washi” Art Film Interprets the Process of Making Traditional Japanese Paper
Designer/director JM Blay in Valencia, Spain: “On the occasion of the Imadate Art Fair in the prefecture of Echizen in Japan, I was invited to create an audiovisual piece for an art exhibition for the...
View ArticleTypesetting in the Sky: Hobbes Launches “Aerial” Font for Drones
Detroit motion studio Hobbes brings carefully crafted typography to the night sky with the design and programming of their aptly named Aerial font family designed specifically for drone shows. From the...
View ArticleTendril Ramps Up Riot Worlds 2022 with Branding Toolkit
CDs Alexandre Torres, Nidia Dias, and Tom Crate lead the Tendril crew in crafting a powerful visual identity, motion branding system, and toolkit for Riot Worlds 2022, the annual global championships...
View ArticleTsz-wing Ho Explores the Abstract Beauty of Hands in Award-Winning Short Film
Director/animator/illustrator Tsz-wing Ho in Hong Kong: “The idea of the work is to present the weird beauty of hand creatures composed of gestures, geometric shapes, and abstract patterns in order to...
View Article“Hacking Google” Mini Series Graphics Package by Imaginary Forces
Imaginary Forces, whose body of motion work is both deep (founded in 1996) and widely influential, continues to innovate with this latest design work for a Google docuseries taking viewers behind the...
View ArticleSpec Miu Miu Product Film by Kim Haeun
Director/animator Kim Haeun in Seoul, South Korea: “In this personal film, I branded a perfume sold by Miu Miu, focusing on the brand slogan, ‘My imaginary friend and ideal design I dreamed of as a...
View ArticleScarecrow Discovers New Life as Dancer After Failed Ad Pitch
Yves Geleyn rescues a scarecrow character (designed by fellow Hornet director Renaud Lavency) from the failed pitch graveyard with the addition of expressive choreography by animator Matt Corsillo....
View ArticleAdidas D.O.N. Issue #4 Product Film by Loop
From the design and motion team at Loop: “Completing the first year of our collaboration with Adidas with a fourth design-driven piece showcasing all the important features of the new Donovan Mitchell...
View ArticleITV Creative and Coffee & TV Destroy Emmerdale’s 50th Anniversary
Venerable British soap opera Emmerdale celebrates 50 years on air with this ambitious promo for an anniversary episode featuring 3D-scanned/printed figures of the cast with VFX and post by London...
View ArticleReal-Time Animated Short Film “BLUE” by Robert Petrie and Preymaker
Director Robert Petrie leads Preymaker’s cloud-based team of 30 artists and animators on a seven-minute family friendly sci-fi adventure made in real-time with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Robert Petrie:...
View Article“The First Descendant” Cinematic Trailer by Jeff Han and Elastic
From the team at Elastic in LA: “Check your weapons and gather your squad – The First Descendant is coming. Watch as creative director Jeff Han and the Elastic crew take on the cinematic story trailer...
View Article“GE Gets to Work” Graphics Package (Director’s Cut) by Bullpen
Aaron Kemnitzer, founder/ECD at Bullpen in New York: “Our friends at Vaynor Media brought us on to help GE launch an initiative to recruit talent around the globe. “Through over 100+ deliverables and...
View ArticleMining the 007 Archives, The Macallan and James Bond Celebrate 60 Years
Granted rare access to the 007 film archives, Studio AKA resurrects original storyboards and concept art from Goldfinger (1964) thru to No Time To Die (2021) to highlight The Macallan James Bond 60th...
View ArticleAll In Pixel and BOL Deal With Their “Retrogame Issues”
From the team at BOL in Barcelona: “Retrogame Issues takes us back to a decade of big hair, saturated colors, 8-bits, local arcades, and when setting up a new video game required MacGyver-like skills....
View ArticleMotion Punk’s “A(n)ti” Dance Trailer Doubles as a Tribute to the Women of Iran
Thanos Kagkalos (aka Motion Punk), 3D artist/motion design director in Athens: “A(n)ti was created as a promotional trailer for a Greek dance performance based on Sophocles’ play Antigone. “Antigone...
View ArticleNeed for Speed Unbound Reveal Trailer (ft. A$AP Rocky) by Mike&Payne and...
Directing duo Mike&Payne (whose talents for gaming action are on full display here and here) link up with London studio Realtime UK on the trailer for the latest Need For Speed release complete...
View ArticleNon-Profit ACCESS:VFX Boosts Industry Diversity with Launch of European Chapter
From the release: ACCESS:VFX, an industry-led non-profit coalition of leading visual effects (VFX), animation, and games studios, today announced the launch of its brand-new European chapter. With the...
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