3rdfloor SandboxAQ Explainer
June 8, 2023
Somewhere in a sleek but empty airport, imaginary passengers enjoy the ambient beauty of these motion design murals designed and animated by CDs Alex Mikhaylov, Max Chelyadnikov, and their crew at Loop. [Watch]
Toiling away over the course of a year after work and on weekends, New York City 3D artist Alec Iselin animated this abstract but very personal short film to consciously confront the rabbit hole of self-doubt. [Watch]
Frankfurt motion design and CG animation studio STYLEFRAME just dropped us their latest R&D project, a spec spot that transforms Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 portable synthesizer into a must-have objet d’art. [Watch]
The groundbreaking B-Line Boby trolley, designed by Joe Colombo in 1970 and part of the MoMA permanent collection, receives a snappy homage in this student work by South Korean director/animator Eunto during his tenure at VDAS. [Watch]
Freshly signed to the director roster at Passion Paris, Colombian animator/character designer Juan Pablo Machado channels his favorite manga artists in this music video fantasy for French producer/musician Sandór Waïss. [Watch]
Creative director Ezequiel Pini at Six N. Five in Barcelona: “Humans modify, adapt, and ultimately destroy what mother nature freely offered to us. Home, the earth, is all we have. It is our plan A and also, plan B.” [Watch]
How do you open a retro-future TV series about a scam selling timeshares on the moon? CD Ronnie Koff and Imaginary Forces opted for what they describe as a “hypnotic ride of apparatuses with an underlying eerie imbalance.” [Watch]
Despite boasting the longest list of VFX credits we’ve ever seen for a commercial, director Mark Jenkinson and The Mill crew keep narrative and emotion firmly in the foreground of NASCAR’s ambitious 75th anniversary film. [Watch]
The motion team at Woodwork Amsterdam captures the anticipation and intrigue of Wilson’s Airless Basketball Prototype which was introduced to fans and players IRL during the NBA All-Star game this past weekend. [Watch]
The year of the rabbit will never be the same after this rampage of impossibly happy triple-threat bunnies created by CD Nicolas Lesaffre and the crew at Nikopicto in Hong Kong for HSBC’s PayMe mobile payment service. [Watch]
Sydney 3D motion design studio MISTER sets an ominous and foreboding tone for the new Australian crime drama Last King of the Cross (based on the autobiography of nightclub owner John Ibrahim) on Paramount+. [Watch]
Given an open brief by MAKE studio to create a short film, Seattle motion designer and 3D artist Ian Frederick takes us underwater for an abstract and effervescent exploration of cell division in “Mitosis”. [Watch]
Damien Bastelica, director and co-founder at Super Dope in Portland, OR, indulges his love of coming-of-age stories and strong female characters in the studio’s latest animated short film “In Love”. [Watch]
Brothers Antonis and Stavros Fylladitis take a break from their studio’s VFX work (on ads, games, features, and TV series) for a passion project involving a certain childhood hero and a real-time production pipeline. [Watch]
