Shanghai digital artist and director Axl Le constructs a riveting philosophical odyssey through a surreal world in this CG short film powered by the insights of British writer/lecturer Alan Watts. [Watch]
Ryan Locke, senior motion designer/AD at Found Studio in London: “Launching [European broadcaster] Viasat World’s latest creative campaign, ‘Uncovering History’, sees the channel’s iconic H mark revealed in relation to six pillars of the channel’s programming: World War II, the French revolution, lost civilizations, Russian space exploration, and the industrial revolution. [Watch]
South Korean director/animator Kim G-ryun and his small team conjure an ominous and hyper-real post-media apocalypse as they create buzz for an online motion graphic exhibition scheduled to go live at asymmetry.tv in the summer of 2020. [Watch]
Director Clemens Wirth in Innsbruck, Austria: “In this shortfilm, I’ve tried to recreate some of nature’s great events our beautiful planet has to offer, but on a much smaller scale. [Watch]
If, like us (and most of the planet), you were enthralled by the refractive magic of the spec title sequence “Organic Machines” by Beijing visual designer Zaoeyo (Xiaolin Zeng), then you’ll certainly appreciate his luminous all-CG opening for Pause 2017. [Watch]
New on the Stash radar: Shawn Wang, a CG generalist and motion designer living in Shanghai who completed “Planet Unknown,” his audacious debut 3D short (complete with a sweeping cinematic score from Echoic Audio) during his final year at Communication University of China. [Watch]
