Niceshit & Matt Blease Keep it Human for IBM AI
Working with UK illustrator/art director Matt Blease, the animation team at Niceshit Studio in Barcelona combines “classic comedy, bold scripts, and expressive characters” into a series of clean and quirky spots for IBM’s AI products. [Watch]
Blinkink Signs Mixed-Media Director Julita Conde
From the release: We are so happy to have Julita Conde joining us at Blinkink for worldwide representation, barring Latin America. Julita merges animation with live-action, working across stop-motion, 2D and CG. [Watch]
Anthony Dickenson and 1stAveMachine Unfold “Soft Gradient Beckons” for Rival Consoles
Join 1stAveMachine director Anthony Dickenson as he assembles 5,000 hand-painted frames into a mesmeric music video for London-based electronic musician Rival Consoles (aka Ryan Lee West). The in-depth BTS starts at 3:00. [Watch]
Yeti Pictures Frames Up the Seven Deadly Sins
Athens-based Yeti Pictures (whose Hollywood mini-parody we featured in Stash 165), pivots 180 degrees in their latest passion project, a macabre meditation on the seven deadly sins staged and lit in classical still life compositions. [Watch]
David Carrizales Explores Anatomical Audio in “we_sounds”
After a stellar run on the festival circuit, Colombian director David Carrizales dropped us his first animated short film, a lighthearted ode to human commonality built on a wordless soundtrack of bodily-generated noises. [Watch]