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October 2, 2024
Barcelona creative studio Cómodo celebrate the opening of the 2016 Promax Europe event in their home town by breaking out a spectrum of styles and techniques in a rollicking “Recognition of the hours of creativity and toil, to the love and passion that we all pour into each project.” [Watch]
With a brief to capture the high quality of Sony Action Cam’s slow-motion, Amsterdam director/artist duo Lernert Engleberts and Sander Plug turn to what they call the epitome of slow, “The camera is so simple to use that it could even be used by a turtle, which is how the concept came about.” [Watch]
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Twenty three seconds of 3D character freshness called “Dino Tennis” from character specialists Monkey Tennis Animation Studio, aka director/3D artist Mikkel Okholm, character designer/art director Frederik Storm, and writer/director/3D artist David Crisp. [Watch]
Behold, the making of the planet’s first interactive 360° mockumentary, a silly/surreal experience called “The Future of Music” written and directed by London-designer-turned-director Greg Barth for Belgian online electronic music platform Hello Play!. [Watch]
Extraordinary new in-house animated short from Nerdo creative studio in Turin, Italy – a free and fluid interpretation of the poem “Beer,” one of many insightful and frightful odes to alcohol by Charles Bukowski. [Watch]
London design studio Art&Graft step up with a 30-second blast of 3D abstraction and typography for the animated title sequence fronting AMV BBDO’s new creative showcase event titled Gunpowder, a curated screening of work across music videos, content, experiential and short films. [Watch]
Blinkink director Greg Barth corals the 3D printing talents of the master modelers at Propshop and the VFX chops of Framestore for a series of complex stop-motion/CG spots for Lenovo’s ‘Goodweird’ campaign thru agency MullenLowe. [Watch]
Paris strategic creative studio Movement adds to the vault of intriguing work they’ve created for French public television network France 5 with this mesmerizing graphic ID called “Civilizations.” [Watch]
The latest exceptional video for The School Of Life applies Alain De Botton’s bottomless wisdom to the under-appreciated emotion of envy, it’s purpose, and why we evolved it in the first place. All wonderfully packaged in the illustration and motion stylings of RCA grads Lara Lee and Hannah Jacobs. [Watch]
The Topix crew and Juniper Park/TBWA help international nonprofit Project Consent “combat sexual assault and rape culture” with three fun and controversial spots featuring talking CG private bits. [Watch]
Just when we zoetrope fans were despairing as to when the next hypnotic spinning confection would land, Sixty40 director Simon Robson sends us this feel-good, CG-disguised-as-cake spot (with 3D by Heckler), part of a three-spot campaign produced thru Sydney agency JOY. [Watch]
Greg Hahn and the crew from NY design studio Gretel strip away all the tropes and artifice of modern broadcast branding for the launch of VICELAND “the most notorious and innovative youth media brand in the world.” [Watch]
For many animation fans, Nexus director Conor Finnegan stole the show on Oscar night with this CG and live action ode to unexpected friendship for Android’s “Better together. Not the same.” campaign through Droga5 called “Rock, Paper, Scissors.” [Watch]
