At the 2017 Emmy awards, Elastic director Patrick Clair claimed three of the five nominations in the Outstanding Main Title Design category for his work on American Gods (Starz), The Crown (Netflix), and Westworld (HBO). [Watch]
Magnus Atom, motion graphics designer at VICE in Brooklyn: “To celebrate Weed Week, I was asked to create some trip-inducing animated visuals to play on and around 4/20. Happy Weed Week ya’ll!” [Watch]
The Ugly Project makes it’s break into the mainstream with Nikita Diakur applying his singular talent for severely busted 3D marionettes to this :15 MTV Ident. [Watch]
Animation studio Nerdo in Turin, Italy weaves a seamless flow of Samurai, Yakuza, koi, horror, and a dragon into the opening for “Far East Festival,” a collection of Asian films running on Italian state broadcaster RAI. [Watch]
On October 1, 1992 Turner Broadcasting launched Cartoon Network primarily as an outlet for their recently purchased Hanna-Barbera library. Over the next 25 years the network nurtured scores of new characters and helped redefine pop culture. [Watch]
UK design director and 3D artist Douglas Bowden (aka Pandayoghurt) creates a series of minimalist and graceful 3D explorations of MAUD’s new mark for Australian broadcaster Foxtel. [Watch]