Revenant Appoints Christopher Smith as Executive Producer
May 8, 2025
The Istanbul team of director/designer Ethem Cem and motion designer/art director Ugur Baltepe sharpen an ethereal, timeless tone into a sinister edge in these titles crafted in CG for the eight-part detective thriller “Alef”. [Watch]
Just before Christmas in 2012, London artist/animator Steve Cutts released “Man”, an ironically jaunty short film about the Anthropocene apocalypse in all its dark and ridiculous glory. [Watch]
In their latest round of work for The Paramount Channel, Airplan Studio in Budapest, Hungary, unites films from various genres into a consistent campaign with a look reminiscent of airbrushed and serigraph movie posters. [Watch]
An allegory about the dangers of following your deepest instincts, “Sous la Glace” (Under the Ice), a CG short film by six students at École des Nouvelles Images comes wrapped in the most sublime digital cinematography we’ve seen this year. [Watch]
It may only be 25 seconds long, but this animated micro-short called “Feed the Urge” from Amsterdam design and motion studio Woodwork delivers days of character and humor with a crisp, confident style. [Watch]
Here’s an excellent way to perk up yet another stay-at-home Tuesday: A playfully aggressive and stylized music video for Japanese four-piece rock band INNOSENT in FORMAL by Tokyo digital artist and director Kota Yamaji. [Watch]
London animation studio The Line says they did not hesitate when asked to bring their well-honed anime skills to this brand film for a new trail bike from California’s YT Industries, “You want a big old anime sword fight? Say no more!” [Watch]
When FITC had to cancel the 2020 edition of their flagship event in Toronto, the crew and director Erin Sarofsky choose to release the conference titles as a reminder of “What You May Find” at future intersections of design and technology. [Watch]
Motion designer and director Jordan Bergren: “In late 2019 my friend Franki Cambeletta reached out asking if I’d be interested in creating a title sequence for his upcoming documentary ‘Lemp’s Last Wright’. [Watch]
The all-Sydney team of agency Bear Meets Eagle on Fire, digital prodco T&DA, and audio house Rumble Studios create a rousing and retro-inspired browser-based game with the “aim to give players a fun distraction during quarantine.” [Watch]
Andrew Jones, founder/ECD at FutureDeluxe in London: “Created as part of a global rebrand to coincide with the launch of Ecobee’s new SmartHome products, we were commissioned to design, direct and craft a series of product films to help bring Ecobee to the forefront of SmartHome innovation. [Watch]
The 2020 edition of the Playgrounds media and design festival launched today in its COVID-induced-induced online form with these stop motion titles created at home over Zoom by the crew of Amsterdam prodco The Panics. [Watch]
Director/designer Roman Erohnovich in Moscow: “Logos is a computational and mathematical package for modeling physical processes in the aviation, automotive, nuclear power, and aerospace industries and the first digital product presented by Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation. [Watch]
Creative director Youngmin Kim and the crew at Seoul motion studio Super Very More wrap South Korea’s new pop culture channel MBC M in a cute and quirky graphics package complete with a fabulous making-of video. [Watch]
