Director Roman Veiga Joins Troublemakers’ Roster
April 18, 2024
After his lecture at Hyper Island in Karlskrona, Sweden, GMUNK reveals his ideas on the future of motion creation and collaboration styles – encouraging students to “Get their motion graphics off the screen and applied to other surfaces, other mediums.” [Watch]
A snowy night in New Jersey and some skeletal matchmoves lend an otherworldly aura in this stark and unvarnished music video from PostPanic’s Brooklyn-based director Fons Schiedon for jazz drummer and crossover artist Jaimeo Brown’s track called “Be So Glad.” [Watch]
In 2013 Austrian director Daniel Moshel unleashed a slice of campy weirdness called “MeTube: August Sings Carmen Habanera” featuring Swiss tenor August Schram, his mom Elfie and a Fellini-esque cast of misfits. Yesterday, Moshel struck again with a bigger, crazier, crowd-funded sequel. [Watch]
NYC director and former VFX artist Dan DiFelice sculpts a beautiful and redemptive film from a raw and powerful poem by Johnny “Bang” Reilly, a 51-year-old UK fighter, filmmaker and VO artist – with Framestore handling the VFX. [Watch]
How would you visualize a track from a band who calls their music “Live n’ kickin’ American folk-country music in Hebrew.” I have no idea either, but Uri Lotan and Yoav Shtibelman in Tel Aviv decided to transport the audience to a forgotten penny arcade where a wooden doll is stuck in place and time. [Watch]
With spring threatening to descend on New York, the timing of this bicycle-based 3D typographic exercise called “Type-Cycle” from London motion designer (and architecture grad) Marcel Piekarski is pretty much perfect. [Watch]
While buying gear at the auction for a bankrupt studio, animator, educator and film archivist Steve Stanchfield over at Cartoon Research spotted a VHS case labelled “Pixar Marketing Tape.” Prepare yourself. [Watch]
Inspired by an opossum living in a coffin amongst his landlord’s old halloween props, Los Angeles director/animator Justin Hilden began filling his sketchbook with possums and possum gags, “Mostly I was intrigued by their strange avoidance of trouble, a trick not unlike my own reaction to stress.” [Watch]
ManvsMachine construct a series of delightful kinetic CG sculptures based on the work of sneaker design superstars Hiroshi Fujiwara, Tinker Hatfield, and Mark Parker to help Nike fans mark Air Max Day 2016. [Watch]
French directing duo Burcu Sankur and Geoffrey Godet (AKA Burcu & Geoffrey) created this smile-inducing clip called “Play” based on the style frames they created for a failed pitch with their continental-Europe reps Troublemakers, “We didn’t get the project but we wanted to bring the images to life animating them.” [Watch]
Berlin creative production duo TED+FLO (VFX super + CD) help Partizan director Tom Noakes realize his curious/hilarious vision of a large man falling down a steep mountain and enjoying every last sensual second. [Watch]
Gaming fans have waited 12 years for a reboot of the Doom world and now they have a taste of the relentless mayhem dropping May 13 (for Xbox One, PS4, PC) with this trailer from Reset director Joseph Kosinski and CG masters Blur Studio thru agency AKQA, all powered by the dulcet tones of Swedish hardcore punk. [Watch]
Nexus director (and architecture graduate) Kibwe Tavares captures a tour de force of intense dance moves and singular characters to launch Guinness’s new Africa Special beer – thru AMV BBDO with post/VFX courtesy of The Mill and Factory Fifteen. [Watch]
LA’s Laundry say they approached the challenge of creating new IDs for The Simpsons – arguably the most graphically identifiable broadcast property of all time – with the strategy of “keeping it recognizable visually but surprising tonally.” [Watch]
