My interest in heavy metal music is minimal but a great story is a great story, especially when the hero overcomes severe, even ironic adversity. So it happened 67 years ago when a Birmingham welder (and future Black Sabbath guitarist) named Anthony Frank “Tony” Iommi lost two fingers to a metal stamping machine. [Watch]
As the design world drowns in demo reels (invariably a string clips cut to music), what can a studio do to punch out of the noise and deliver a clearer picture of who they are? The company manifesto is a good start. Witness this snappy 90-sec romp created by We Are Royale and timed for the launch of their new site [Watch]
Montreal graphic designer Nicolas Ménard moved to London in 2012 to complete an MA in animation at the Royal College of Art where he created this darkly comic animated mini-masterwork called “Loop Ring Chop Drink 2014” which just completed a successful festival run. [Watch]
Take a surreal and completely mad mixed media/2D trip into the animation process with Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg student directors Alireza Hashempour and Malaeke Farhangadib in their ID for the 2015 Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film. [Watch]
Yawen Zheng, an animation student from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, just sent us her first year film called “Every Star,” a sweet solo project about “A mysterious boy from nature who collects stars and sends them to every city child who is unable to see the stars through the foggy sky.” [Watch]
London animation prodco Golden Wolf plays fast and loose with the planet’s favorite spider-bite victim and amorphous extraterrestrial parasite (aka Venom) in this frenetic blast for “Ultimate Spiderman” running on Disney XD. [Watch]
