Nickelodeon International launched their Animated Shorts Program in 2012 to hunt down and feed up-and-coming animation talent into their TV series pipeline. So which of these mini-pilots should you know about? We suggest “Scoop!” created by The Brothers McLeod and “MooseBox” from Mike Scott [Watch]
Directing collective bif, aka Jules Janaud and Fabrice Le Nezet, (both seasoned 3D artists in The Mill’s London studio) combine motion capture and procedural animation/rendering to build an full-CG chroma-fest of escalating action for rising Parisian electro artist Azel Phara. [Watch]
Great character and color work here from Acme Filmworks directing duo (and recent Supinfocom grads) Burcu Sakur and Geoffrey Godet who craft a low key but uplifting advert/manifesto for Nature’s Path foods thru Vancouver agency Will Creative Inc. [Watch]
Meet Serap, a Nepalese Sherpa who’s led 28 expeditions to the summit of Everest and the captivating spokesman in this Doctor’s of the World spot from Mill+, Chemistry Creative and Publicis asking us all to help provide long term medical care to the survivors of Nepal’s devastating 2015 earthquakes. [Watch]
Hypnotically dense collage work from Not to Scale director Chris Curtis keeps you glued despite the dry-ish voice over of this summary of the The Internet of Things for Deloitte University Press, all with the goal of “Bringing a human touch to infographics, with people not pie charts.” [Watch]
Blinkink directors The Layzell Brothers (Matt and Paul), who first caught our attention back in 2011 with their mad holiday idents for E4 and then the insane “Future Travel” short for Cartoon Network, have fun with real security footage of shoplifters at Harvey Nichols to promote the UK retailer’s Rewards App. [Watch]
