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Animorsels Halloween Meet Up Haunts Nottingham Oct. 24

Animation and motion folk! Take a break from the keyframes and the join us at Animorsels on Oct. 24 for a spooky evening of animated fun and drinks featuring ghoulish short animations and a talk by Davey “Swatpaz” Ferguson. [Watch]

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JVG Light Up a “Dream Summer” for Meta x The Source x Blenders (Director’s Cut)

Master CG stylist Javier Vallejo at JVG in Madrid conjures 30 seconds of iridescent CG optical art in this collaboration between Meta, hip-hop magazine The Source, and California eyewear brand Blenders. [Watch]

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The Telly Awards Opens for Entries With New and Expanded Categories

Our partners at the Telly Awards honor excellence in video and television across all screens and entries for the 46th season are now open with new and expanded motion categories including Short Films and Realtime Rendering. [Watch]

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Brikk Animation Keeps Emotion Center Stage for Komatsu

Drawing inspiration from the style of Studio Ghibli, Brikk Animation leverages the full range of human emotion to highlight the landmine clearance work done by Japanese manufacturing and tech giant Komatsu in Cambodia. [Watch]

Sport and Play Collide in Nike x LEGO Global Campaign by Colors And The Kids

Berlin studio Colors And The Kids just dropped us their quick and chaotic pop culture mash-up with Nike x LEGO joining forces for a global campaign designed to work on both mobile screens and massive billboards. [Watch]

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Optical Arts Captures the Beauty of Combustion

Captured entirely in camera with no VFX or post production, Optical Arts’ newest in-house visual experiment Ignis considers the beauty of combustion and “the complex relationship humanity has with fire”. [Watch]

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Hiroshi Takagishi Explores Organic Oddities in New Motion Art Installation

Tokyo-based director/designer Hiroshi Takagishi, whose striking Poem short film we published here, expands on his fascination with organic lifeforms in his new CG motion piece created for display at Museum 1 in Busan, South Korea. [Watch]

Franz Impler Keeps it Surreal in “Nothing to Expect”

3D artist and filmmaker Franz Impler, whose bonkers grad film Out Of Bounds we featured in Stash 149, is back with a new short film – complete with his surreal story-telling and signature unpolished CG style. [Watch]

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Waldemar Borth Finds “Random” Humor in the Brand Film

Channeling his many years creating corporate brand films, motion designer/AD Waldemar Borth takes a satirical poke at the tropes of the genre by fusing his design and post experience with an array of AI tools. [Watch]

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Yeti Pictures Keeps it Dark and Dramatic for “Witch: Flamed Heart” Opening Titles

The second season of the TV series “Witch: Flamed Heart”, a supernatural drama set in Renaissance Greece, opens with these atmospheric CG titles courtesy of CD Tony Zagoraios and his crew at Yeti Pictures in Athens. [Watch]

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The BUCK Crew “Get an Airbnb” or Three

Expanding on the miniature world they created for Airbnb’s Aircover spot, group CD Joe Mullen and the BUCK team conjure three new 30-second spots “celebrating those little perks you just can’t find in a hotel.” [Watch]

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KITCHEN and Jelly Take on Super-Pollutants for The Climate and Clean Air Coalition

Jelly directing duo KITCHEN translates four serious super-pollutants into scary/sweet characters in this 90-second animated brand film for The Climate and Clean Air Coalition thru social impact agency Purpose. [Watch]

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Electric Theatre Collective and Yippiehey Headline Motion North on Oct 16 in Manchester

Motion North 49 kicks off in Manchester Oct. 16 with special guests Ryan Knowles and Greg McKneally from London VFX powerhouse Electric Theatre Collective and 3D artist/illustrator Yippiehey (aka Jacob Eisinger). [Watch]

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Los Pérez and Electric Theatre Collective Serve Up All-Star Tennis VFX for “Six Kings Slam”

The biggest names in men’s tennis star in this sweeping action-scifi-fantasy-Viking-adventure-tennis film helmed by directing duo Los Pérez with absolutely epic VFX handled by the team at Electric Theatre Collective. [Watch]