Studio Grackle, a virtual traditional animation studio founded by Spencer Wan, jumped onto the Stash radar this week with their debut project, a whiplash trailer for Hades, the action role-playing game from Supergiant Games. [Watch]
Art Director Ismael Picardi at MTV Networks World Creative Studio in Buenos Aires: “As part of the MTV’s newest rebrand, Mood Swing, we had to search and curate artists to develop idents that fit our concepts, such as love, chill, flawless, energetic, horny, fear, etc. [Watch]
Director James Papper teams with Blinkink roster-mates Guy Field, Sophie Koko Gate, José Fatkinson, and Bridget Meyne to create a loveably eccentric spot for Camden Town’s QR code-driven, free beer giveaway thru Wieden+Kennedy, London. [Watch]
The battle between Epic Games and Apple over Fortnite and App Store payment policies has at least one upside: this 45-second animated takedown of Ridley Scott’s 1984 Super Bowl commercial casting a worm-infested apple as Big Brother. [Watch]
Director/animator Di Lu (who now works at Pixar) reveals the perils of character design critiques in her thesis film “Super Generic” completed during her time in the Computer Animation program at the Ringling College of Art and Design. [Watch]
The Gondry brothers’ lockdown project, a music video for UK rock band IDLES, finds Michel animating paper cutouts in his Los Angeles studio on his iPhone then sending the frames to Olivier in Paris for CG enhancement and post. [Watch]
