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It’s official, Ben West’s brilliant FUGU & TAKO short film will become a graphic novel, placing the mutated heroes in a “battle against their own ineptitude, a legion of yakuza, and a Godzilla-like monster.” You have till Friday, Jun 12 2015 10:34 AM EDT to pledge on Kickstarter and grab sweet rewards including a signed hardcopy of the graphic novel and limited edition signed original illustrations.
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It’s all-out airborne anarchy in this new :60 for Perrier as Les Télécréateurs directing duo Fleur & Manu team with MPC Paris to launch a wild party in the wild blue thru Ogilvy Paris. [Watch]
Logan co-founder/director Ben Conrad leverages his work on automotive-insanity (like the last four Gymkhana films) into the virtual world with a riveting VR piece for Castrol EDGE via London agency The Brooklyn Brothers. [Watch]
Visual Assembly, the new design and animation studio founded in London by Joseph Winston and Douglas Bowden, marks their launch with this striking CG work, “The concept was to create a piece that resonated with the name of the studio and represented the building or foundation of something new. [Watch]
Starting with a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, South Korean motion designers Minhyung Lee and Jeong-a Shin, construct a complex and whimsical CG dream called “Play” set inside the rotating sections of a glass Rubik’s cube. [Watch]
The defiant attitude and exuberance of STATE Design‘s promo for the FOX Sports coverage of the 2015 Women’s World Cup in Canada comes as a welcome bright spot in the shadow cast by the FIFA investigation and Sepp Blatter’s resignation only days before the opening game. [Watch]
The next chapter of BBDO’s 10-year long Ecomagination campaign for GE arrives via the Buck crew and ECD Orion Tait animating with a lo-fi palette of paint, pencil, dry brush and mixed-media. Music by Human. [Watch]
Take a quick peek at how Wizz Design directing foursome Andy’s and fellow Parisians Unit Image continued the Michelin Man’s valiant tire-flinging mission on a grand scale in “CrossClimate.” [Watch]
Just when you thought mainstream hand-drawn animated features had died completely, director Sergio Pablos releases this stunning teaser for “Klaus.” Currently in development thru his SPA Studios in Madrid, the film promises bold and innovative lighting choices, beat-perfect story telling and extraordinary character work. [Watch]
Fresh from it’s premiere at OFFF 15, weareseventeen‘s newest in-house labor of love called “Infinite Horizon” attempts to visualize The Overview Effect, a cognitive shift in awareness experienced by some astronauts when seeing the earth from space for the first time. [Watch]
Great idea from Proximity Russia and Indee Interactive for anyone haunted by quasi-creepy tracking ads and fond of Post-It notes. Possibly the start of a welcome trend twisting web advertising technology to your own devises (see D&AD’s Ad Filter posted earlier this week). [Watch]
Emmy Award-winning Melbourne designer Raoul Marks, most often found working with the Elastic crew and Patrick Clair, steps out on his own to create both the visuals and the audio to open the 2015 Semi-Permanent design conference with a sweeping and surreal film. [Watch]
Obsessively detailed and lovingly rendered all-CG title sequence from King and Country for “Texas Rising,” History’s 10-hour miniseries based on the Texas Revolution against Mexico directed by Roland Joffé. [Watch]
One of our most diverse and striking issues to date, Stash 111 delivers wall-to-wall motion brilliance adding yet another 31 animation, VFX and motion design projects to the Stash Permanent Collection. [Watch]
