Director Andy Hall Joins Not To Scale Roster
May 15, 2024
The frustration of slow mobile downloads perfectly expressed in three over-the-top metaphor-dramadies courtesy of the all-Buenos Aries team of director Jonathan Gurvit, VFX house La Posta and agency Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi for the BGH G4 LTE smartphone. [Watch]
If you were wondering why Baymax in Big Hero 6 looked so good (or you just want a primer in CG rendering), check this 10-min film from Walt Disney Animation Studios explaining how path tracing works and how their Hyperion renderer makes it possible to, for example, render vast city scenes with out the use of matte painting extensions. [Watch]
The crew at Aixsponza in Munich show off their collective skills for surreality in this startling full-CG in-house project called “Seed,” a hyper-detailed trip deep into photoscanning territory. [Watch]
Nikolina Kulidžan was 12 when civil war interrupted her first romance. Her warm, tear-inducing tale of remembrance and reconnection anchors the latest installment in the New York Times’ Modern Love series and features the formidable illustration and animation talents of London’s Moth Collective. [Watch]
In an attempt to show how misunderstood ad folks are in the real world, Saatchi and Saatchi and Campaign Magazine commissioned London directing collective The Line to create these ads to run on billboards around Cannes during the 2015 Lions Festival. They were banned on day one. [Watch]
Six years, 13 spinoffs and 1.4 billion downloads later, Rovio and Wieden+Kennedy London launch Angry Birds 2 with a completely mad porcine action/comedy created by Riff Raff director Francois Rousselet and the VFX crew at The Mill. [Watch]
The bright and bubbly end result of this new :60 from Hornet director Yves Geleyn for Motorola’s new Moto G thru Droga5 belies the mixed-media wizardry happening on set and in post. [Watch]
Self-taught Tokyo freelance director/animator Hiraoka Masanobu first caught Stash’s attention in September 2012 with his mesmerizing work for video sharing social network Sincho.tv. Now he’s back with a personal film, a narrative-free, metamorphic liquid-dream that defies prediction and proves relaxing despite its restless pace.
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Check the zany crush of Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network characters in these IDs for Tooncast, the 24-hour Latin American classic animation cable channel – written, designed, and animated with obvious love and reverence by the Le Cube crew in Buenos Aires and São Paulo. [Watch]
Ambitious and entertaining brand film for luxury swiss timepiece maker Jaeger-LeCoultre chock full of watch nerd trivia and light-hearted collage work from french creative duo Pauline Schleimer (director/illustrator) and David Després (animator/web developer). Production, music and sound Design by Freestudios in Geneva. [Watch]
CDs Chris Bahry, Alexandre Torres and the Tendril crew help Canada’s Space Channel go beyond their core demo of young men in search a broader (read female) audience with a stunning set of macro-world IDs. [Watch]
A non-stop feast of design, animation and VFX, Stash 112 packs another 31 creatively and technically outstanding video projects into the Stash Permanent Collection along with great behind-the-scenes features and exclusive interviews with the designers, directors and producers behind the work.
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London freelance director/animator Isaac Holland transforms a rational and carefully constructed mini-essay on the benefits of psychotherapy into an engaging piece of promotional infotainment for The School of Life with the help of engaging characters and whimsical vignettes. [Watch]
Montreal art collective Fluorescent Hill (Mark Lomond and Johanne Ste-Marie) take the anti-hype route to promoting their brand new, limited edition comic called The Rooster, a decidedly low-key, 36-page opus unencumbered by action, dialogue, color, words or uplifting messages. [Watch]
