Forty-four third year Bachelor of Art and Design students at the Media Design School in Auckland, New Zealand turn the jet-black humor of Edward Gorey’s “Accidents, Blunders and Calamitiesis” loose on 30 unlucky CG creatures in this mini-masterwork of seamless VFX and beat-perfect comic timing. [Watch]
Directors Ludovic Versace, Félicien Colmet Daâge and the crew at multi-talented Paris studio Les Monstres turn a manifesto for a persecuted European minority into an engaging and enigmatic 2D/3D-animated treat (chock full of innovative frames and transitions) for the Association La Voix des Rroms (The Voice of Roma). [Watch]
Let director John Jones and Paris studio 2FACTORY kick-start your Friday with a cast of desperate characters and over-the-top walk cycles packaged into in a very unsubtle comment about conformity and personal style in this romp for electro/hip-hop duo Cosmic Valley called “Superbia (Ft. Basement Beatzz).” [Watch]
Pre-show theatre announcements in Brazil got a whole lot more intricate and interesting recently with the introduction of this ambitious mix of CG and miniatures from São Paulo production powerhouse Vector Zero. [Watch]
Packed with both adrenalin and atmosphere, this CG trailer – produced in collaboration with Ubisoft Paris for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands – moves Paris studio Mathematic firmly into the top tier of game promotion. [Watch]
Montreal studio Fluorescent Hill taps the deep well of flight safety card parody to perk up the commute of 250,000 daily riders on GO Transit (Ontario’s public commuter train/bus system), thru agency Tribal Toronto. [Watch]
