Beijing’s Ollie Studio, whose work for BMW made the Best of Stash 2023 Brand Films list, and CD Chui Ho team up for Xiaomi to interrupt the seemingly endless torrent of CG phone films. [Watch]
Following up on their collage work for Penhaligon earlier this year, the design and animation crew at Tigrelab offer a peak into the range of motion techniques used on their recent spot for Athenian Brewery’s Mamos Unfiltered. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, Collage, Featured, Motion Design · Tags Athenian Brewery, Federico Gonzalez, Javier Pinto, Mamos, Mathieu Felix, Soho Square, tigrelab
To celebrate their first birthday, the team at AI creative agency faith used themselves as the guinea pig to explore practical uses of Gen-AI and test the tools’ abilities “to create films within a consistent brand world.” [Watch]
Apple’s latest volley against the online surveillance economy is a gently comic nod to Hitchcock and Orwell courtesy of Smuggler director Ivan Zacharias with avaricious metalic avians via VFX shops Legacy Effects and House of Parliament. [Watch]
The planet’s only streaming platform dedicated to motion design, animation, and VFX – aka the Stash Permanent Collection – keeps growing with the addition of issue 166, packing in another two full hours of inspiration and insight. [Watch]
Category 3D Style, Advertising, AI, Animation, Brand film, BTS, BTS, CG, Character Animation, Explainer, Featured, Illustration, Motion Design, Music Video, R&D, Short Films, Spec work, Titles, Typography, VFX · Tags Antoine Bardou Jacquet, Balázs Simon, Bark&Bite, BlinkInk, Boris Wilmot, Brikk, Bureau Klaus Alman, Chez Eddy, Clément Soulmagnon, Clim Studio, Electric Theatre Collective, Eoin Duffy, Fabrice Le Nezet, Form Films, Framestore, Illogic, Korb, Kyungrae Yu, Le Cube, le truc, Louve Karnas, ManvsMachine, Mike Drayton, Optical Arts, Psyop, Pulla Studio, Raman Djafari, Romain Chassaing, Romain Loubersanes, Runway Studio, Sailor Productions, Setreset, Studio Belly, Studio Ianus, Studio Mals, Sunny Vfx, The Line, The Mill, Titmouse, TONIC DNA, Trizz, Vallée Duhamel, William Bartlett, Woodblock
The recent uptick in beautifully rendered spec CG product films (here for example) is certainly a welcome trend and this project from Stockholm 3D artist and motion designer Floris Kruger extends the genre with a refreshing touch of comedy. [Watch]