Posted on January 23, 2014
Shynola adds a new chapter to their canon of innovative music videos with this otherworldly CG take on “Tookah” by Iceland’s Emiliana Torrini. The synthetic style of the submerged facial animation will strike some as unfinished or at least lacking finesse, but there’s no doubt it adds an element of unease that elevates the clip above the merely ethereal. Label: Rough Trade, direction/animation/edit: Shynola, production: Black Dog Films.
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Posted on January 22, 2014
Stash is pleased to present the online premiere of Richard Hickey’s “Francis.” A former Superfad director/CD, Hickey (now repped by Not to Scale in the UK and Logan & Sons in the US) worked with EP Kevin Batten to craft the tense and perfectly-paced film from a Dave Eggars short story first heard on a “This American Life” broadcast. [Watch]
Posted on January 21, 2014
Both fans and detractors of Milkyeyes (aka Donato Sansone) have come to expect the unexpected from the Torino-based director/animator/artist/compositor who often pushes his video experiments past the boundaries of NSFW. This latest piece, an exercise in disturbing/comic portraiture, builds on his “Draft” video [Watch]
Posted on January 17, 2014
After winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009 with his thriller “The Secret in Their Eyes”, Argentine director Juan José Campanella launched his first animated film, “Foosball”: budgeted at US$20M the soccer-centric action comedy is the most expensive domestic feature ever produced in Argentina. [Watch]
Posted on January 17, 2014
The 2014 BassAwards for Motion Graphics, Animation and Broadcast Design opened for entries Jan 16, with this frenetic/furry head-turner from Nomint and ZeligSound. Enter your most killer work by Feb 18 to snag discounted rates. [Watch]
Posted on January 16, 2014
Berlin’s Polynoid (aka Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck, Csaba Letay, Fabian Pross, Tom Weber) just released this ambitious/meticulous Dragon Eternity game trailer thru their new prodco/studio venture called Woodblock designed to separate production from the “pure directing and filmmaking character that defines Polynoid as a creative collective. Woodblock opens up new possibilities for us as filmmakers, and for our studio as a production house by introducing our roster of different directing talent and artists.” [Watch]
