The design and motion team at Bliss in Barcelona team with Spanish directing trio MANSON and Agency AKQA for a loose and low-tech look at key moments in Nike history for the brand’s 50th anniversary. [Watch]
Director and concept artist Lauren Indovina heads up a sprawling international production crew, led by VFX and animation studio LIGHT, as they corral NFTs, bored apes, and web3 into a crypto adventure of epic proportions. [Watch]
Category Animation, Brand film, Branded Content, CG, Character Animation, Featured, Motion Design · Tags Coinbase, Formosa, Framestore, Invisible North, Lauren Indovina, LIGHT, Partizan, Picnic
Venerable US oil and gas company Conoco gets a thoroughly quirky update in this series of fun character films by director Lucas Camargo and the design/animation team at ROOF in New York. [Watch]
Working to a track by rapper/songwriter Princess Nokia, Strange Beast director Sacha Beeley stages the sequel to her 2021 adland hit “The Pube Song” in the ongoing quest to make the world more comfortable with the hair down there. [Watch]
Prettybird director Tom Noakes pulls together five VFX and animation studios then pairs them with different literary genres to illustrate “the invisible magic that happens in our imaginations when we read” for Amazon Books thru Droga 5 London. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, Character Animation, Featured, VFX · Tags Amazon, Black Kite, Droga5, Future Power Station, Jimmy Grimes Puppetry, Marcus Armitage, Prettybird, String & Tins, Studio aka, Tom Noakes, Virtual Films, Yibi Hu
Running almost six minutes long, Blur’s newest Valorant trailer notches up the crisp action, precision blocking, and detailed character work as they introduce “Omega Earth” in Episode 5 of Riot Games’ first-person shooter franchise. [Watch]