Director Roman Veiga Joins Troublemakers’ Roster
April 18, 2024
Mill+ directors bif dispatch electro-pop duo Shy Luv and their CG clones “on a provocative and elegant quest for love, as if they were puppets traveling through a surreal landscape.” [Watch]
Rising star director Oscar Hudson strings together 10 actors in 18 rooms with only two long tracking shots, one edit and zero VFX in this music video for the new Bonobo track “No Reason” – designed to give claustrophobics the bends. [Watch]
Dark, dreamlike and superbly crafted, this music video by Marseille motion designer Joseph Blanc for “This Mess Won’t Make Itself” by London indie pop group Dead Seem Old, toys with and then eradicates the boundary between 2D and 3D. [Watch]
The mother of all action-nerd animation series returns for episode 2 wherein Tesla and the Super Science Friends take on cherubic-but-dastardly Thomas Edison for control of NYC’s electricity. [Watch]
Your childhood memories of Humpty Dumpty just got a whole lot gooier courtesy of this pre-Super Bowl spot for TurboTax from Smuggler director Ivan Zacharias with VFX work from The Mill thru Wieden + Kennedy Portland. [Watch]
Kansas City motion mavens MK12 promise to MAKE AMERICA SEXY AGAIN™ and here’s the proof: a 12-minute venture into camp-retro-future-Nazi-weirdness called “MAN OF ACTION! II: Ashes of Vengeance.” [Watch]
If, like us (and most of the planet), you were enthralled by the refractive magic of the spec title sequence “Organic Machines” by Beijing visual designer Zaoeyo (Xiaolin Zeng), then you’ll certainly appreciate his luminous all-CG opening for Pause 2017. [Watch]
Here’s a little counter-programming for inauguration day 2017, a snappy two-minute peek at the 31 new animation, VFX and design projects included in Stash 121 and now part of the Stash Permanent Collection. [Watch]
With the inauguration of the 45th US president only hours away, this explosive call to unity by NYC director and visual engineer Steve Giralt bears a powerful message, “Democracy doesn’t require uniformity, but it does require active citizenship.” [Watch]
With President Obama leaving office this week, we wanted to publish a piece that captured some of the eloquence, charm, and narrative ability he brought to the hardest job in the world. [Watch]
Nexus director GMUNK teams with the VFX crew at The Mill in London to plunge you into an AI’s vivid data dream – part of the launch campaign for the new Audi A5 thru BBH. [Watch]
Freshly-signed Strange Beast director Anna Ginsburg explores sustainability issues in the fashion world with this inviting and inventive 2D brand film based on illustrations by Sara Andreasson for UK luxury department store Selfridges. [Watch]
British philosopher Philippa Foot introduced her ethical thought experiment The Trolley Problem in 1967 to back her argument that our moral judgments are powered by rational thought. [Watch]
Paris VFX/animation and sound design studio Pilule & Pigeon teams with French animator/director Axel Digoix (“Despicable Me 2”, “The Little Prince”) for a melancholy but beautifully drafted music video called “Tenere Taqqal” by Grammy-winning Saharan band Tinariwen. [Watch]
