Animation Director Reece Parker Joins NOMINT Roster
September 12, 2024
In this new CG spot addressing the gender gap in technology for University of Phoenix, Hornet directors Dan & Jason return to the emotional approach they used so effectively in their 2015 breakout work for Cineplex. [Watch]
MJZ directors The Perlorian Brothers enlist the CG creature talents of The Mill in London to create a ridiculous but stylin’ new giraffe/flamingo hybrid for Three Mobile thru W+K London. [Watch]
Passion Paris directing duo Timekeepers (aka Stephane Montel and Raoul Barbet) launch their animation studio Capsule with the yearnings of reincarnated fast food lovers in this spot for McDonald’s Switzerland. [Watch]
The winners of Elton John and Bernie Taupin’s The Cut competition were announced today and their videos released for “Tiny Dancer,” “Bennie and the Jets,” and (most importantly) an animated version of “Rocket Man.” [Watch]
Fresh and light animated collage treatments for two fun spots from director Tony Zagoraios and the motion crew at YELL in Athens for Cyprus-based fruit juice brand KEAN thru Ogilvy Pandora. [Watch]
The full release of Amplitude Studios’ sci-fi strategy game Endless Space 2 hit PCs last week with the help of this sleek clip created by French director Niels Prayer, ULF Productions, and the irrepressible 3D specialists at Supamonks in Paris. [Watch]
Inspired by their shared fascination with myths and stories, the directing duo of Chris Lenox Smith and Jesse Casey at Mixtape Club in NYC, teams with children’s author Adam Gidwitz and illustrator R Kikuo Johnson to update a Japanese folk tale. [Watch]
US studio Swell.tv and Buenos Aires motion designer Manu Correa Soto apply snappy moves and a stripped down collage treatment to this online film for artisanal San Francisco coffee company Port of Mokha. [Watch]
For their first in-house animated short, New York prodco Dress Code tackles a story of childhood addiction. In production for two years, the film renders a complex issue in a stark palette punctuated by fluid transitions and powerful visual collisions. [Watch]
UK director Kris Hofmann, who charmed us with her gentle call to save Britain’s hedgehogs, is back with another warm and tactile multi-media stop-motion project. [Watch]
Strong character work, wonderful art direction and a brief lesson in listening from Léa Cousty and her short film “Sur Ecoute,” created during her fourth year studying animation at Supinfocom Valenciennes. [Watch]
Yambo Studio in Tel Aviv nudges the architectural visualization industry out of its comfort zone (of pristinely rendered but often sterile imagery) with this playful retail spot for a residential tower in their hometown. [Watch]
David Chontos, a director and the head of CG at PSYOP LA, describes his latest short film as “part exercise of passion and part love letter – ‘Sisters’ is a fragment of some lost, tragic opera.” [Watch]
Watch how the Sao Paulo office of Wieden+Kennedy created their striking new visual identity based on a geometric pattern found right under their feet – on the city’s sidewalks. [Watch]
