Director/CEO Craig Parker and his crew at Motif Studios in Cape Town (whose Gelato Roboto short we featured in Stash 160) just dropped us their latest passion project, a sci-fi feature film proof of concept called NERO. [Watch]
Fabulous character work here courtesy of Nexus director Laurie Rowan, who deploys a stop-motion aesthetic in a series of deadpan CG social media clips for Australian teleco Telstra thru Sydney agencies +61 and Bear Meets Eagle On Fire. [Watch]
Psyop directors Todd Mueller and Kylie Matulick ramp up the fun and mischief in this launch film for the latest entry in Ubisoft’s Anno game franchise while blurring the line between “cinematic quality and gameplay integrity”. [Watch]
Directors Ralph Karam, HanzoHanzo (Hans-Christoph Schultheiss), and the Le Cube animation crew help Tencent launch the Dungeon Fighter Mobile game with a series of intense trailers including this one highlighting the Asura character. [Watch]
Zack Lydon, the Seattle-based animator/illustrator who brought us this playfully violent Valentines treat, re-teams with the Risograph specialists at Zine Hug for a rampaging tribute to Eiichiro Oda’s manga series One Piece. [Watch]
Fresh off a stellar run on the festival circuit (150+ official selections with 47 awards AND Oscar short-listed), A Kind of Testament is the first short film from French illustrator/comic book artist Stephen Vuillemin. [Watch]
