The last time director Anton Shavkero and his CLAN crew teamed with CG studio AVE we got this esport madness. Now they’ve applied their unhinged 3D thinking to this future-pop racer vision for PUMA’s classic Speedcat sneaker. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, Brand film, CG, Character Animation, Featured · Tags Amazing Red, Anton Shavkero, AVE WARRIORS STUDIO, CLAN Team, Deem Muratov, Ozio
Eddy director Clément Soulmagnon (whose work we track here), amplifies his signature animated poetry into far more intense and fiery territory in this new brand film for top-tier French cycling brand Van Rysel. [Watch]
The Stash Permanent Collection – aka the only streaming platform dedicated to design, animation, and VFX – just published issue 172. Preview the full two hours of motion brilliance with this two-minute trailer. [Watch]
Category 3D Style, Advertising, AI, Animation, Brand film, Broadcast Design, BTS, BTS, CG, Character Animation, Explainer, Featured, Games, Motion Design, Music Video, Short Films, Stop Motion, VFX · Tags ALIEN STUDIO, Bemo, buck, CCLAB, César Furtado, Chu-Chieh Lee, Clim Studio, Coffee & TV, Dialogue, Elastic, Feral Child, Final Frontier, Fx Goby, HANZOHANZO, Hazel Baird, João Vaz Oliveira, Kevin, Kulfi Collective, Kylie Matulick, Laurie Rowan, Le Cube, Loop, Makmac, Mathematic, Michael Fragstein, Mighty NIce, Nexus, Nexus Studios, Panoply, Parasol Island, Passion Pictures, Plains of Yonder, Psyop, Reframe Studio, Roof Studio, Rough Collie, Santi Zoraidez, Sky Creative, Someform, Studio Taktil, Territory Studio, Todd Mueller, two&tall, Untold Studios, weareseventeen, Wolfberg, Yujin Song
Bistro Films directing duo Wolfberg and VFX studio ALIEN (who brought us this monster mayhem), re-team in a retro-future charmer for Slovakian bank SLSP, celebrating “the power of beginnings and the beauty of ambition.” [Watch]
Working with UK illustrator/art director Matt Blease, the animation team at Niceshit Studio in Barcelona combines “classic comedy, bold scripts, and expressive characters” into a series of clean and quirky spots for IBM’s AI products. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, Character Animation, Featured, Illustration · Tags Carmen Angelillo, Facundo Capece, Guido Lambertini, IBM Blue Studio, Lola Ritcher, ogilvy, Rodier Kidmann
Director/photographer Thibaut Grevet wraps Samuel L. Jackson, Missy Elliott, and Anthony Edwards into an arresting visual poem celebrating the art and craft of timelessness for adidas Originals thru agency Johannes Leonardo. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Featured, VFX · Tags Adidas, Barking Owl, Cabin Edit, DEPT Retouch, Division, Electric Theatre Collective, INK, Johannes Leonardo, Thibaut Grevet