IAMSTATIC Ups Nicole Labbe to Senior Producer
May 21, 2025
Digital artist Erik Wernquist in Stockholm: “If we want to travel beyond our solar system within a human lifetime, we will need to find ways to go incredibly fast. Ultimately, it comes down to our understanding of physics and the laws that govern the Universe. [Watch]
Meeting your partner’s ex is seldom easy and as UK director/animator/designer Samuel de Ceccatty points out, that goes double for Eve when Adam’s first wife Lilith happens into the garden for a little catch-up. [Watch]
In 2016, with his Emmy for Main Title Design on The Man In The High Castle in hand, Patrick Clair set out to redefine what hi-tech horror felt like with his opening for Westworld on HBO. This fourth iteration mixes familiar imagery from past seasons with stark new themes and symbols. [Watch]
In this spec film for NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, Portland director/animator Anton Weaver combines graphic restraint, careful rendering, and just enough science to create a sense of wonder and anticipation. [Watch]
Director Simlynn and Pixel Workshop in Chengdu City, China take CG characters to their happy place in this grand fantasy for 52TOYS, a company that specializes in collectible blind box figures. [Watch]
Hussain Almossawi, founder/director at Mossawi Studios in Brooklyn, NY: “In this collaboration with Intel, we created a short art film that visually evokes different emotions and feelings through motion, sound, color, and form.” [Watch]
Working with production partners Partizan, creative director Oriol Puig and the team at Trizz Studio in Barcelona, elevate a mouse and keyboard from everyday tools to transformative design objects in this film for Logitech. [Watch]
From the team at Giant Ant in Vancouver: “We’ve been toiling away for the better part of a year on a broadcast package for Cartoon Network’s newly launched preschool block: Cartoonito.” [Watch]
Director Jacob Kurek and the design and animation team at BluBlu craft a prismatic explainer for Natural Atlas, an interactive app designed to connect users with nature and a community of fellow naturalists. [Watch]
The South by Southwest Festival announces its first international edition will go live in Sydney in October 2023 with this multi-technique animated film by hometown directors Danny Stern and Jonathan Pui thru Present Company. [Watch]
Polyester Studio in Toronto just dropped their latest in-house short film called Passage, a surreal mix of cel and 3D animation they describe as “a man’s journey inward as he strives for peace in the moments after death.” [Watch]
Blinkink director Renee Zhan and Norwegian CG house Saurus Animation lead a gooey guided tour of the Trolli factory where innocent candy worms endure madness and mayhem to be turned into Sour Burstin’ Crawlers. [Watch]
In what may be the most extravagant unboxing of all time, London CG specialists Mainframe reveal the ARC-52 single malt, a collaboration between Scottish distillery Bowmore and Aston Martin limited to 100 bottles and expected to retail for $75,000. [Watch]
In their latest motion work for Portland-based nonprofit BibleProject, creative director Jorge R. Canedo E. and his team at Ordinary Folk craft a swirling, painterly, and approachable look at dichotomies in Christian scripture. [Watch]
