London directing and design duo Yum Yum (Beth Algieri and Jonny Plummer) just brightened our day with this submission about the sport of contact parking and the very real possibility of death by meat. Love the use of roadkill as foreshadowing.
Check this trailer for an upcoming animated feature from Barcelona’s Sixbirds and their CG arm called StudioNEST. Very exciting to see this quality of work coming from a city outside the US, Sydney, London, Paris quadrangle. Directed by Headless.
Sheer silliness and exuberant fun from Dvein to help IdN mark it’s landmark 100th issue with music/sound design: Marc Teitler. The vibrant blobularity makes a nice contrast with the angular austerity of this IdN clip by Kultnation.
Nathan Love just added two new additions (Barry Baaa and Olive Ostrich) to their Baskin-Robbins critter collection. Check out all five short but sweet TV spots.
Ringling students Brendan Carroll and Francesco Giroldini steal some of the CG character thunder back from the European schools with this accomplished fable of a boy with the strength to choose the right path. Music by Erez Koskas.
New SanFran agency DOJO hits the ground running with a branded music video for the new dLite LG mobile phone helmed by Parnoid US director Sophie Gateau.
“Utilizing motion control to shoot the available 45 pre-production phones , Sophie shot twenty passes–moving the phones along in each pass. The Paranoid Design Studio team then assembled the passes, tracked animated characters and environmental drawings, and composited them into the scenes. The LED look was then finished on Flame by Paranoid Design Studio VFX Artist Seb Caudron.”
Legacy Effects and Method Studios lend a hand, a few loose fitted legs, and a whole bunch of skin folds to an odd-looking beastie in MGMT’s latest video release “Congratulations”. Directed by Tom Kuntz, production by MJZ.
Watch MGMT “Congratulations”
Check Buck’s cool and fluid treatment of the :30 for Nike’s World Basketball Festival that took over Times Square and iconic NY basketball sites like Rucker Park in mid-August. Directed by Ryan Honey.
This year’s crop of openings for the Annecy Festival from Paris animation school Gobelins can be found right here.
All the films are solid as usual but there is one piece I believe deserves extra stars for style, technique and execution: its called “Junk Space” and was created by second year students De Marion Delannoy, Jonathan Djob Nkono, Paul Lacolley, Kevin Manach and Nicolas Pegon.
This music video-esque bit of geometric surrealism from London illustrator/animator Neal Coghlan started life as a single illustration which soon became three animated loops which then became 20 VJ loops after the original three won a €1000 commission in the Resolume competiton. Music by Dutch trio Kraak & Smaak.
Yes, The Goon is underway at Blur but it’s great to see the studio’s game team is still pounding out work like this new trailer for DC Universe starring Lex, Superman, the Bat, Joker, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and many more.
Watch DC Universe “Who Do You Trust” now or EARTH IS DOOMED!
Late last year on a tour of Blur Studios, Jeff Fowler showed me an early 3D motion test for the feature adaptation of Eric Powell’s graphic novels “The Goon”. Now comes word of meatier grisly fun.
This new teaser, posted by Dark Horse Comics on Facebook, brings together Blur’s talents for physical comedy (seen in their short films) with their mastery of chiaroscuro lighting and rendering (seen in their game trailers). Can’t wait to see more.
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As a reminder here is the demo on how to build playlists in Stash:
We posted Patrick Clair’s “Yes We Canberra!” infographic last week and after a little more digging we found more worthy work from the prolific Sydney motion designer. Our two faves are the energized titles for an Australian TV show called “HungryBeast” and a cheeky conspiracy infographic called “Google: Trying not to be evil”.
Watch “Google: trying not to be evil”
Watch “HungryBeast” title sequence
