Posted on December 25, 2015
Directing collective bif, aka Jules Janaud and Fabrice Le Nezet, (both seasoned 3D artists, represented by Mill+ in London) combine motion capture and procedural animation/rendering to build a full-CG blast of escalating action for rising Parisian electro artist Azel Phara. [Watch]
Posted on December 23, 2015
Inspired by a life-threatening family tragedy, New York director/writer/cinematographer Vincent Peone (who co-founded the video team at collegehumor.com) leads a stellar crew on a seven-month, stop-motion and CG journey to reveal the magical story behind just why The Sea is Blue. [Watch]
Posted on December 21, 2015
Inspired by anime, propaganda art, the murals of Diego Rivera, and graffiti paintings, Not To Scale director Kris Merc takes on modern cultural excess in the video for “To My Surprise” from veteran Manchester rockers James and asks “what if love was the driving force of our cultures and interactions?” [Watch]
Posted on December 21, 2015
Seizure-inducing, hi-con op art makes for an unintuitive but eye-grabbing solution to promo La Vita Nòva, a free iOS app about the future of food, designed, animated, and scored by Milan motion design studio The Workroom for the Italian business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. [Watch]
Posted on December 18, 2015
It’s no secret how Vancouver filmmaker Eoin Duffy feels about Xmas, skewering the season’s conventions for three years running with short, acerbic animated tales. His 2015 take, titled “Happy Holidays” teams Duffy with character animator Henrique Barone and audio maven John Black at Cypher Audio. [Watch]
Posted on December 17, 2015
We suspect some of the praise SyFy is enjoying for their new space drama series “The Expanse” (based on the novels by James S. A. Corey, aka writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), is a direct result of how well the show’s tone is set by this sweeping and ominous title sequence by Australian studio Breeder. [Watch]