CD Ty Hayward at agency MullenLowe in Los Angeles takes over the director’s chair in this new Acura spot, wrangling animation from five artists and VFX from Arc Creative into an upbeat and unpredictable multimedia romp. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, CG, Character Animation, Featured, Stop Motion, VFX · Tags Acura, Antoni Tudisco, Arc Creative, Arturo and Rodolfo Ambriz, Crystal Cashmere, Dalkhafine, Flopsy & Co., MullenLowe, TORQ, Xander Opiyo
In the spring of 2024 Stash featured this mixed-media masterwork from London’s Dog & Rabbit. And now (better late than never) the studio have dropped a BTS video to verify their hand-made street cred (sort of). [Watch]
Aardman director Åsa Lucander brings story craft and genuine emotion to the decidedly unromantic subject of groundwater flooding in this spot starring Darcy the mole and his quest for love amidst a natural disaster. [Watch]
The 20th edition of the Graphika Manila creative conference opened with this crazed rampage of creatures and typography from directors Marcel Ziul, Lucho Suarez, and the animation crew at State in Los Angeles. [Watch]
The latest in director/animator Michael Fragstein’s ongoing collaboration with venerable German writing instrument brand LAMY builds a complex and kinetic design language targeted at a younger audience. [Watch]
Prague-based directing duo Wolfberg (aka Jan Kalvoda and Premysl Ponahly) scale several VFX summits in this merger of practical set pieces and CG elements for Slovak bank Slovenská sporiteľňa thru Czech agency Zaraguza. [Watch]