From the team at Giant Ant in Vancouver: “We’ve been toiling away for the better part of a year on a broadcast package for Cartoon Network’s newly launched preschool block: Cartoonito.” [Watch]
Director Jacob Kurek and the design and animation team at BluBlu craft a prismatic explainer for Natural Atlas, an interactive app designed to connect users with nature and a community of fellow naturalists. [Watch]
The South by Southwest Festival announces its first international edition will go live in Sydney in October 2023 with this multi-technique animated film by hometown directors Danny Stern and Jonathan Pui thru Present Company. [Watch]
Category Animation, Brand film, CG, Character Animation, Featured, Motion Design · Tags Cheekbone, Danny Stern, Jonathan Pui, Present Company, SXSW, SXSW Sydney
Perivale Brewery, the modern microbrewery based on Horsenden Farm in Ealing, West London, has launched a new animated film to celebrate the fact that its products will now be sold in cans rather than bottles. The promo, named “Perivale – Canning Soon”, was created by animation studio This Thing of Ours. [Watch]
Polyester Studio in Toronto just dropped their latest in-house short film called Passage, a surreal mix of cel and 3D animation they describe as “a man’s journey inward as he strives for peace in the moments after death.” [Watch]
Blinkink director Renee Zhan and Norwegian CG house Saurus Animation lead a gooey guided tour of the Trolli factory where innocent candy worms endure madness and mayhem to be turned into Sour Burstin’ Crawlers. [Watch]