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October 2, 2024
We’ve come to expect passion projects from the crew at Trizz in Barcelona to be both ambitious and thoughtful (like their recent Earth Day film) and this new music video for composer/producer Ivan Llopis does not disappoint. [Watch]
Electric Studios, the creative crew housed within London VFX powerhouse Electric Theatre Collective, just dropped us the first in their series of original animated projects, an action fantasy about an aging but fearless cephalopod hunter. [Watch]
Camp Mograph USA pitches it’s creative tent Sept 12-16 in the wilds of Ingleside IL (just northwest of Chicago), inviting animators, motion designers, and VFX artists to step away from their screens and reconnect with nature and each other. [Watch]
Director Prasad Kelkar and the motion design crew at Post Office Studios in Mumbai (the immersive content division of Kulfi Collective) combine dramatic scale and austere monochrome compositions to elevate this film for the Nothing Phone (2a) Plus. [Watch]
Swedish art director/designer Joakim Ekstroem fuses his passion for skateboarding with magic realism in this short film exploring how the obsessive search for spots to skate “ultimately shapes the way you perceive the world.” [Watch]
London’s Inertia Studios (whose love of outdoor CG adventures we’ve noted here and here), is back in the bush with a gripping product film for Marin Bikes highlighting the features and benefits of their Alpine Trail models. [Watch]
Art director/animator Ignacio Osorio (who won an Emmy for his motion work on CNN’s The Hippie Trails doc), conjures a tactile ode to geometric abstraction in this passion project, an intriguing mix of handmade collage and digital tools. [Watch]
The welcome trend of entertaining process reels continues with this riveting look at the CG experiments behind Ditroit’s latest work for Hublot, a showcase for the brand’s collab with British designer Samuel Ross and his studio SR_A. [Watch]
Building on their previous work for Microsoft (see here and here), the NotReal motion team layers up a snappy mix of graphic design, illustration, and CG to showcase how Windows 11 integrates with the daily lives of its users. [Watch]
Drawing on visual references including vintage museum dioramas and the pioneering stop-motion of Ray Harryhausen, LA director Brent Bonacorso leverages a happy accident in Midjourney into a rousing spec spot for Johnnie Walker. [Watch]
French animator and CG artist Paul Lavau (whose credits include Despicable Me 2 and Minions), teams with Paris studio Wizz to craft a trio of emotional vignettes capturing very personal memories of adolescence. [Watch]
Directors Katrina Crawford and Mark Bashore at Seattle studio Plains of Yonder offer an insightful peek at the process behind their rodent-infested titles for the new Kathleen Jordan Netflix comedy series The Decameron. [Watch]
London animation studio Shotopop may have outdone themselves with this promo for the Marvel Snap digital collectible card game as YouTube commenters are now begging Marvel for a Deadpool animated series based on this style. [Watch]
Balázs Simon’s new video for British duo Sad Night Dynamite (co-directed with Cátia Abreu) is a darkly comic conflagulation of prosthetics and nightmarish digital VFX but the good news is he just dropped Stash fans a peek into the process. [Watch]
