Elastic creative director Jeff Han tells Stash how chess became the metaphor for the strategic battle between post-war Nazis and Al Pacino’s team of “Hunters” in the titles of Amazon’s new original series. [Watch]
Seattle director/CG artist Richard Lord, who crafted one of our favorite CG music videos of all time for Alessandro Parisi in 2019, creates a kooky/cool new breed of automated alien life in this promo for Plus Device called “Our Pleasures” [Watch]
Larian Studios’ launch of the latest take on the Dungeons & Dragons RPG franchise Baldur’s Gate includes this formidable opening sequence animated by Unit Image with obvious passion, and given the scale of action and set pieces, unlimited ambition. [Watch]
Rimantas Lukavicius, founder at KORB in Vilnius, Lithuania: “This short film explores the interaction between the uniform particles and light. We had this idea for quite some time, but unfortunately didn’t manage to realize it in commercial work, therefore we used our spare time to bring it to life. [Watch]
Inspired by the fantastical work of Shanghai artist Jie Ma, Korean motion designer Yonghoon Jeong (aka Samhwagoon) creates a series of striking dream-state vignettes in this personal film he calls Retrospection. [Watch]
Tokyo CG boundary-pushers Onesal just released their newest self-initiated project they describe as “an exploration of tactile textures in nature” and an attempt to visually explain the phenomenon of ASMR. [Watch]
