Electric Theatre Collective Expands to US With NYC Studio
April 7, 2025
In 2022, XK studio dropped a pair of CG motion explorations redefining the boundaries of footwear design (watch here and here). Their latest, XKR_003 | Rehydrate, considers “the shifting states of water and the surreal moments that emerge in-between.” [Watch]
The list of actors portraying KFC founder Col. Harland Sanders is long and often dubious (Rob Lowe, Norm Macdonald, Mario Lopez, Reba McEntire, etc.), so Golden Wolf’s super-powered anime take is certainly a welcome departure. [Watch]
Standing out in the crowded world of advertising awards is a constant challenge but the 2025 British Arrows do it in style with this elaborate and tasteful CG work from director Rüdiger Kaltenhäuser and the motion crew at Glassworks. [Watch]
Following on their two stellar films for the Wilson Airless basketball, ECD Marv Koppejan and the Woodwork Amsterdam crew build out a manifesto film for Wilson Labs, emphasizing the division’s focus on blending craft with innovation. [Watch]
The prestigious Digital Design Days festival launches their satellite event DDDx in Palermo, Sicily on June 27–28 offering new opportunities for inspiration, education, and networking to local communities, organizations, and professionals. [Watch]
In their latest in-house motion experiment, art director Aleksei Komarov and the team at Media.Work conjure a mesmerizing series of CG vignettes that, like the most rewarding literary narratives, are both logical yet wholly unpredictable. [Watch]
LA-based Brazilian director/animator Diego Coutinho reworks an abandoned commercial project as an opportunity for weaving traditional motion techniques with AI tools to explore “a blend of machine capability and human sensitivity”. [Watch]
Flamboyant Paradise directors Javier Lourenço and Álvarez Ortega Bianchi team with composer Pedro Gómez to stage a musical fecal frenzy for animal rights organization PETA while making the point that being vegan is good for your gut. [Watch]
Wizz directing collective CRCR continue their rampage thru the gaming universe with the studio’s first work for Supercell, a blast of animated action to launch mo.co, the new mobile multiplayer monster-hunting RPG. [Watch]
References to St. Sebastian and his close relationship with stringed weaponry are not new in pop culture but this video for Swedish rapper Yung Lean, by Frenzy Paris directing duo Suzie & Leo, is certainly the most visceral. [Watch]
Dublin-based 3D motion designer Mario Domingos responds to a brief from Ireland’s national public broadcaster RTÉ with an exuberant series of brand IDs for their children’s television block RTÉ Kids. [Watch]
In their latest work for British luxury design brand Tom Dixon, London studio jformento and director Jonathan Formento draw on the anthropomorphic charm of the POSE Task lamp to choreograph a playful CG product film. [Watch]
For their spring outing on April 9th, the Manchester-based group of motion designers, animators, filmmakers and VFX artists known as Motion North present two new speakers: Gavin Strange and Vimal Kerketta. [Watch]
The crew at SoCal motion design studio Stylo Creative weaves metallurgy and embroidery into a richly detailed CG launch film for Nike’s opening day Gold Edition LA Dodgers’ jersey commemorating the team’s World Series win. [Watch]
Director/animator Oleg Rumyantsev at Los Angeles design agency QLO merges artful rendering and a surgical edit to command your full attention in this CG film for the Esquire Capsule, a premium roof-mounted luggage carrier for Range Rover. [Watch]
