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Welcome to Kapture Technologies
Oats Studios (Neill Blomkamp’s new experimental filmmaking venture) just released “Kapture: Fluke,” an all-CG short with the look and feel of a 2010 game cinematic powered by what Blomkamp calls “a...
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Watch Ollie Magee’s “Fall”
Animator, director, and artist Ollie Magee in Bristol, England: “A falling man finds peace in his fate as a he learns to let go of emotion, sensation and his physical body. “His impact on the city and...
View ArticleJammin’ with Robot & The Robots
London animation studio Animade: “This studio project is a celebration of music, experimentation and of course, robots! “The animation is based on a band of talented robots performing their catchy hit,...
View ArticleBrickyard VFX Welcomes VFX Supervisor Benji Davidson
From the release: Los Angeles, CA (August 7, 2017) — Brickyard VFX Santa Monica studios today announces the addition of Benji Davidson as VFX Supervisor. Davidson’s world-class creative experience...
View ArticleMore Mesmerizing Mid-century Motion
In 2015 German animator Henning M. Lederer scored a cult hit with his hypnotic animated short “Covers” by infusing 55 mid-century book designs with motion. His sequel, imaginatively called “More...
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Matt Smithson for Shopify “MVMT Watches”
If you have any entrepreneurial bones in your body this mini-portrait of MVMT Watches co-founder Jake Kassan, created by Matt Smithson (aka Man vs Magnet) for Shopify, will certainly stir your blood....
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The “Most Handmade” HITOTOKI Clock
To emphasize the handmade nature of HITOTOKI’s crafting products, Dentsu Japan created a delightful stop-motion clock with each of the 1,440 minutes in a day constructed in real-time during one 24-hour...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes: Great British Bake Off Trailer
Here’s a quick peek at how Blinkink directors Michael Please and Dan Ojari (aka Parabella) broke the interwebs with their new stop motion trailer for the UKs most-loved culinary TV franchise, The Great...
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FutureDeluxe “Colour on Colour” Experiment
Part of an ongoing R&D project at the London studios of 3D boundary-pushers FutureDeluxe, “Colour on Colour” uses live action footage to drive intricate and beautiful procedural CG particle...
View ArticleOnur Senturk’s Main Titles for OFFF Milano 2017
Director/art director/animator Onur Senturk: “The Main Titles for OFFF Milano & Digital Design Days 2017 is an art deco-inspired science fiction piece and features the perfect machines, mechanisms...
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“Big Buddy Blue – a Freitag® Story” by Team Tumult
Snappy, vibrant, and a joy to watch, “Big Buddy Blue” by Zurich motion house Team Tumult is the third film in the Tarp Blanche series commissioned by Swiss bag manufacturers Freitag. The warm-hearted...
View ArticleSchool of Life “Why We are All Addicts”
Alain De Botton: “We tend to imagine that we can only become addicted to a few sorts of things. But real addiction is about using something, anything, to keep our real emotions, fears and hopes at bay....
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Tulips and Chimneys: Cerebos “Snow”
South African directors Tulips and Chimneys (formerly Shy the Sun) re-team with Cape Town animation/VFX house BlackGinger to meld CG with stop motion miniatures in this spot for Cerebos salt thru FCB...
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EISPRUNG “Ivan’s Need” (Mature)
Possibly the freshest student film we’ve seen this year, “Ivan’s Need” is the gloriously strange graduation film of Lucerne University students Veronica L. Montaño, Manuela Leuenberger, and Lukas...
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Chris Lloyd’s Wonderful “Silly Robots”
YLLW is the animation and illustration studio of London director Chris Lloyd: “Silly Robots, our first studio project, started off as a joke and quickly became a passion project that grew into 50...
View ArticleJean-Marie Marbach: Tennyson “L’oiseau qui danse”
French Director and VFX artist Jean-Marie Marbach dials in his signature Trapcode magic for “L’oiseau qui danse” by young Canadian jazz/electro duo Tennyson. Directed by Jean-Marie Marbach Custom AE...
View ArticleRemus & Kiki Direct “The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall” for TED-Ed
UK 2D animation directing duo Remus Buznea and Kyriaki Kyriakou (aka Remus & Kiki) clarify the origins of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the toll it imposed on those who tried to escape East Germany, and...
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Ben Collier-Marsh Crafts a “Wide Open Sky”
Ben Collier-Marsh, CD at WeCanMake in London experiments with layers and looks in this music video for his friend and Brooklyn musician Sami Fitz. A study in contrasts, the resulting piece is both...
View ArticlePleid Plants “Crazy Daisies” for Prada (Director’s Cut)
Juanma Mota, founder and director at Madrid art and motion studio Pleid: “We were asked by 2×4 NY to work on some animation series for Prada. “They launched a brand new Spring sandal and bootie...
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Dvein and Mikros Image: Paco Rabanne 1 Million (Director’s Cut)
Dvein and Paris VFX masters Mikros Image add a golden touch to models Sophia Ahrens and Jordan Barrett in this kinetic spot for Paco Rabanne’s 1 Million and Lady Million fragrances shot by the one and...
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