According to Wikipedia, trepanation involves drilling or scraping a hole into the human skull. A fun fact that makes it the perfect title for this psychotropic anime-flavored video for the Japanese creative collective Millennium Parade. [Watch]
Rimantas Lukavicius at KORB and Gavin Little at Echolab: “This project was born a few years back but was never fully released until now. We experimented with inorganic matter found deep in the Colombian Andes at OCETA. [Watch]
For the launch of Fender’s American Acoustasonic Jazzmaster guitar, which allows players to blend between acoustic and electronic tones, veteran CG artisans ManvsMachine craft a stunner based on the tagline “The Sonic Shapeshifter”. [Watch]
HP brings together an A-team of the planet’s visual talent for this branded short film commissioned to highlight their line of Z high-performance PCs aimed at designers and creators. [Watch]
Category 3D Style, Animation, Branded Content, CG, Featured, Motion Design · Tags Alex Trochut, GMUNK, Hewlett Packard, HP, Jody Macdonald, Nidia Dias, Orlando Arocena, Rik Oostenbroek, Shane Griffin, Valtteri Laihanen, Zelig Sound
The battle between South African Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya and the I.A.A.F. over her gender and ban from competition anchors this crusading film directed by Ralph Karam and animated by the crew at Le Cube for Unilever brand, Lux. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, Brand film, Character Animation, Explainer, Featured · Tags DaHouse Audio, Final Frontier, Le Cube, Lux, Ralph Karam, Unilever
NYC studio Bigstar teams with writer/director Robe Imbriano (ABC’s Soul of a Nation) to address the history of white supremacy and how “passive racism perpetuated via white fatigue is the biggest challenge in the fight against racism today.” [Watch]