Director Romain Borrel and the crew at Cirkus in New Zealand show off their character design/animation skills as well as a preference for extreme cartoon mayhem in “The Butcher,” the second episode of their Jack of All Trades series. [Watch]
Moments like the one seen above, found in the teaser called “A Night to Remember” for CD PROJEKT’s long-anticipated game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, is why we rank Budapest’s DIGIC Pictures as one of the top three game cinematic studios on the planet. [Watch]
If there’s one thing to learn from Adult Swim IDs it’s never underestimate the power of shock tempered with humor. Case in point: This new batch of idents from Treat Studios in London built around a theme of transformation. [Watch]
UK artist Mat Collishaw teams with fellow Londoner Sebastian Burdon (who handled the 3D modeling and animation) to create a mesmerizing and impossibly detailed 3D-printed zoetrope composed of over 350 character figures plus props and environmental elements. [Watch]
Snappy and detailed look at the production of “Adventure in the City,” a crazy-ambitious stop motion mini-epic created for LEGO China from hundreds of thousands of real LEGO bricks (and a boy in a snake suit) by Dutch director/writer/animator Rogier Wieland and his intrepid crew thru AKQA Shanghai. [Watch]
If we leave aside the question of whether an “honest and fair” phone company is even a possibility, this new spot from the recent Koodo campaign thru new Toronto agency Camp Jefferson packs lots of bonkers multimedia into 30 seconds. [Watch]