New visual effects studio LIGHT (based in Bordeaux, with a presence in NY) burst onto the Stash radar this week with these fun and furry Olympic-themed IDs for French free-to-air public television channel France 3. [Watch]
Duncan Elms, creative director at Elastic in LA: “This is the title sequence for the Netflix documentary Operation Varsity Blues – a deep dive into the fraudulent methods used by Rick Singer to get the children of rich and famous families into top U.S. universities.” [Watch]
BBC Olympics promo spots are always a grand visual treat and this 60-second VFX extravaganza by Nexus directors Factory Fifteen is no different as it sweeps viewers into an obsessively detailed, sports-infused Tokyo. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, Broadcast Design, Character Animation, Featured, VFX · Tags BBC, Factory Fifteen, Jonathan Gales, Kibwe Tavares, Nexus, Paul Nicholls, The Mill
Director CJ Cook at Meister in Portland: “We were approached by The SpingHill Company to produce a series of vignettes for CNN’s documentary “Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street.” [Watch]
Working thru California agency Butler Shine Stern & Partners, director Diego Berakha and the crew at 1stAveMachine in Buenos Aires mash together live-action and a slew of animation and design styles for this phase two promo of the ESPN app. [Watch]
Oscar-nominated director Carlos Saldanha (Ice Age x 3, Rio x 2, Ferdinand, etc.) taps fellow Brazilian Juliano Storchi and Dopo VFX studios in Sao Paulo to craft the enigmatic main titles for his Netflix series Invisible City. [Watch]