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April 25, 2024
Dougal Wilson, Blinkink and MPC: IKEA “The Joy of Storage”
A combination of puppetry from Jonny & Will at Blinkink and CG from MPC (created from a range of nature and bird references) elevates Dougal Wilson‘s new IKEA spot for Mother into the first major-league awards threat of 2015. [Watch]
Best of Stash 2014 Preview #5: “Turn Down for What”
With “Turn Down for What” set to crack 155M views on YT at the time of this post, Sirs Kwan and Scheinert’s cult status appears to be in jeopardy. But as overplayed and omni-present as it may be, this manic mini-masterwork for the DJ Snake & Lil Jon single deserves to rank on every serious 2014 Best-of list. [Watch]
DANIELS and DAZED Unleash “Interesting Ball”
Misters Kwan and Scheinert‘s singular genius for in-your-face-unpredictable-mayhem continues with this new short produced by Pretty Bird and presented by DAZED starring An Interesting Ball, a handful of cosmic-mini-dramadies and some lol VFX. Don’t think. Just watch. [Watch]
FutureDeluxe “Mothership” Short Film with Twistedpoly
Brighton creative studio FutureDeluxe celebrate their fifth birthday by expanding into London and releasing this blinding swirl of eye-candy called “Mothership,” the first of five films in collaboration with Twistedpoly (aka Slovenian designer/director/motion artist Nejc Polovsak) and Zelig Sound. [Watch]
Marisabel Fernandez and Alexander Bernard: “Listen”
With their senior film “Listen,” recent Ringling College of Art and Design grads Marisabel Fernandez and Alexander Bernard take on the challenge of “envisioning a reality that we have never experienced,” interpreting the world of an autistic child through a fractured mix of abstract and illustrative animation. [Watch]
MPC: Money Supermarket “Elephunk” Behind the Scenes
MPC say they channeled Samuel L Jackson, John Travolta, Michael Jackson and Beyoncé to choreograph the moves of a funky 15-foot African bull elephant strutting the streets of Vancouver for Money Supermarket thru Mother.
MPC 3D Supervisor Fabian Frank: “The biggest challenge was creating an elephant that could pull out the moves with the best of them, yet was also believable and true to life. We solved this by ensuring his dance moves stayed within the realms of what a real elephant could do.”
“The second challenge came with integrating the elephant into the shot footage. Matching the interaction between Graeme and the elephant were key, so Graeme was tracked and rotoscoped back into the shots – using select takes to perfectly match the elephants walk cycle.”
Watch the VFX Breakdown and the finished spot below:
Agency: Mother
Production Company: Smuggler
Director: Guy Shelmerdine [Watch]
