Revenant Welcomes CG Supervisor Drew Robertson and Supervising Producer Lindsay Weir
May 2, 2024
British concert pianist, memoirist, and iconoclast James Rhodes takes us under the covers in his room at a psychiatric hospital to reveal a very personal musical memory in this animated film directed by Bungalow in Barcelona. [Watch]
If there’s such a thing as minimalist maximalism, this entrancing and intricate infinite zoom created by German director/animator Henning Max Lederer for OMD’s new single “Isotype” is probably it. [Watch]
Rotating sets are certainly not new (Royal Wedding, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Poltergeist, etc.) but this deployment from director Show Yanagisawa for Sony’s Gravity Rush 2 game updates the technique with a secret weapon: the ginger kitten. [Watch]
Italian animation innovator and provocateur Donato Sansone (aka milkyeyes) suppresses his natural tendency toward the NSFW and grotesque to hand-craft a snappy don’t-text-and-drive message for Ford Italy. [Watch]
Unit9 director Cole Paviour and cinematographer James Medcraft combine motion capture, motion control, and a unique multi-plane liquid printer to create the planet’s first animated liquid human all in camera. [Watch]
The social network for athletes called Strava gave each of its 1.2 million members a stunning and personalized CG film displaying their individual training achievements in 2016. [Watch]
Mobile phones are hard to tell apart as are most of the ads promoting them, but Shanghai director/ motion designer SOMEI is helping OPPO change that by surrounding the expected pristine product shots with fun and unexpected visuals. [Watch]
Essentially unchanged since 1933 when French tennis star Jean René Lacoste (aka the Crocodile) invented them, polo shirts are as “Timeless” as men’s fashion gets. [Watch]
A stumpy but fearless sea captain finds himself alone against impossible odds in “Tempest,” a CG short packed with high drama and spectacular VFX from director Bryan Engram and the Brazen Animation crew in Dallas. [Watch]
This brooding and meticulous new CG short from the Tendril crew called “Coming to America” premiered last night on STARZ to accompany episode five of the hit fantasy-drama “American Gods.” [Watch]
Toronto design and motion studio Polyester layer non-stop action and ambitious transitions onto a brisk script from SID LEE copywriter Egin Kongoli in their in-house tribute to the many facets of the number 7. [Watch]
Amphibians of various shapes and stickiness crash the aftermath of a decadent party, indulging in the leftovers and satin sheets before uncovering a dark secret hidden at the bottom of the pool. [Watch]
UK VFX shop nineteentwenty bring their 3D and Nuke skills to this desert music fest featuring Gorillaz and a massive cast of solar powered toys – all directed by Noah Harris at Blinkink. [Watch]
Kouhei Nakama’s personal films have always pushed the creative and technical boundaries of 3D to create a sense of wonder. But this latest short, called “Makin’ Moves,” is his first designed make you smile. [Watch]
