Bistro Films directing duo Wolfberg and VFX studio ALIEN (who brought us this monster mayhem), re-team in a retro-future charmer for Slovakian bank SLSP, celebrating “the power of beginnings and the beauty of ambition.” [Watch]
Working with UK illustrator/art director Matt Blease, the animation team at Niceshit Studio in Barcelona combines “classic comedy, bold scripts, and expressive characters” into a series of clean and quirky spots for IBM’s AI products. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, Character Animation, Featured, Illustration · Tags Carmen Angelillo, Facundo Capece, Guido Lambertini, IBM Blue Studio, Lola Ritcher, ogilvy, Rodier Kidmann
Director/photographer Thibaut Grevet wraps Samuel L. Jackson, Missy Elliott, and Anthony Edwards into an arresting visual poem celebrating the art and craft of timelessness for adidas Originals thru agency Johannes Leonardo. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Featured, VFX · Tags Adidas, Barking Owl, Cabin Edit, DEPT Retouch, Division, Electric Theatre Collective, INK, Johannes Leonardo, Thibaut Grevet
Join 1stAveMachine director Anthony Dickenson as he assembles 5,000 hand-painted frames into a mesmeric music video for London-based electronic musician Rival Consoles (aka Ryan Lee West). The in-depth BTS starts at 3:00. [Watch]
Athens-based Yeti Pictures (whose Hollywood mini-parody we featured in Stash 165), pivots 180 degrees in their latest passion project, a macabre meditation on the seven deadly sins staged and lit in classical still life compositions. [Watch]
After a stellar run on the festival circuit, Colombian director David Carrizales dropped us his first animated short film, a lighthearted ode to human commonality built on a wordless soundtrack of bodily-generated noises. [Watch]