Norn Jordan Joins We Are Royale As Creative Director
November 30, 2022
Duggee, the large and lovable dog who anchors Studio AKA’s BAFTA and EMMY-winning pre-school series Hey Duggee, leads the charge in this special episode helping make young Ukrainian arrivals to the UK feel more at home. [Watch]
The design and animation crew at The Furrow team with music/sound design studio Sanctus and the Twenty Thousand Hertz Podcast to demystify the power and creative possibilities of synthesizers. [Watch]
Inspired by Miles Davis’ own original paintings, director/animator Irina Rubina conjures a whimsical and intricate interpretation of the trumpeter’s cover of Tina Turner’s 1984 hit “What’s Love Got To Do With It”. [Watch]
A joint fashion initiative between Italian sports brand Fila and Paris label Y/Project rushes to life in this spot by director/3D artist Frederik Heyman thru Belgian prodco Bounce Rocks with post/VFX by Pixmix Studios in Antwerp. [Watch]
The FITC Web Unleashed 2022 conference opened last week in Toronto with this intense title sequence designed and animated by Colombian motion designer and self-described graphics nerd Daniel Alvarez. [Watch]
Keeping an audience’s interest for 30 seconds is tough enough, so how do you sustain their attention through a potentially very dry four-minute history of a 200-year-old financial services company? [Watch]
From the team at Tomorrow Bureau in London: “The Alpine Alpenglow was designed with both the open road and racetrack in mind. It is a concept car that embodies the design hallmarks of the brand’s upcoming models, as well as its commitment to sustainability.” [Watch]
Following up recent commercial work for Nintendo, Ubisoft, and Hermès, Eddy directing duo Faux Soleil (aka Simon Duong Van Huyen and Arthur Chaumay) animate a meditative and cinematic music video for German composer/cellist Anne Müller. [Watch]
Parisian directing duo Bounty / Banana (aka Steven Briand and Julien Jourdain De Muizon) mark 10 years in the business with a rebrand and this blast of collaborative insanity offering a frenzied peak into their creative life. [Watch]
Hornet’s ongoing character-based charm offensive for US grocery retailer Kroger continues with this new holiday spot, helmed by directors Yves Geleyn and Michael Thurmeier and guaranteed to make you misty-eyed. [Watch]
From the team at ManvsMachine: “Working closely with the fine folk at Meta, we designed and directed the launch film for their most advanced VR headset yet, the Meta Quest Pro.” [Watch]
The Semi Permanent design conference commemorates 20 years and returned to an IRL format in 2022 with these dreamy, illustrative titles by ECD PJ Richardson and the animation crew at Laundry in LA. [Watch]
Director Chet Hirsch and ECD Mike Schaeffer at The Mill spin up an enigmatic and disorienting sequence in these titles for Guillermo del Toro’s new Netflix horror anthology series Cabinet of Curiosities. [Watch]
Applying painterly machine learning techniques to CG renders, Antibody’s Raoul Marks and Patrick Clair set a menacing tone for the Amazon series The Peripheral, the first screen adaption of a William Gibson novel since the 90s. [Watch]
