In his latest integration of AI into mainstream commercial production, director Brent Bonacorso uses generative tools to create the raw footage with compositing, clean-up, and color handled with traditional post tools. [Watch]
In a refreshing break from heroic esports tropes, director Anton Shavkero and CLAN join forces with CG studio AVE to push your occipital lobe past capacity in this deranged showcase for the BetBoom Esports team players. [Watch]
Nike Football’s massive new SCARY GOOD campaign drops with nine mock-horror films from nine Prodco directors and a half dozen post/VFX studios to celebrate the “creative, fearless play” of the sport’s top players. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, Featured, VFX · Tags Alex Takács, Alice Kunisue, Bacon X, Daydreamer, Harbor, Hen House London, Ian Pons Jewell, Lee Hardastle, Leonn Ward, Luna Carmoon, Mau Morgó, Nike, Panic, ProdCo, QLBeans, Rick Darge, Sports On Screen, StudioP, Thomas Ormonde, Time Based Arts, VFXPick, Wieden+Kennedy
Following on their standout titles for Yellowjackets, the Digital Kitchen team conjure more mystery and intrigue with this open they describe as a “forensic puzzle told through fire” for the Apple TV+ crime drama miniseries Smoke. [Watch]
The crew at London VFX/post shop Covert delivers 70 shots of boss-inspired mayhem in this Lenovo Legion campaign directed by Eric Lynne at A Running Commentary and designed to “celebrate the resilient spirit of gamers”. [Watch]
In one of the most technically impressive and fun CG creature performances you will see this year, the animation and VFX teams at Untold Studios and Parasol Island deliver a cephalopodic waltz for BMW thru agency Jung von Matt. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, CG, Character Animation, Featured, VFX · Tags Black Kite, BMW, Diarmid Harrison-Murray, Hello Robin, Jung von Matt, Parasol Island, Tenthree