Through his education venture Learn Squared, title design phenom Ash Thorp demonstrates how to “craft detailed and thoughtful main title designs” while students “learn the core principles of successful titles, and are challenged to put these concepts to work by creating multiple examples of their own.” [Watch]
Studio AKA director Marc Craste and Blacklist take on the challenge of injecting warmth and emotion into an ad for one of the planet’s humblest of consumer products: sidewalk ice melt. [Watch]
Completed over the course of four months as their senior thesis film, Ringling College Motion Design students Jacob Ferguson and Adrian Pumarejo capture the mind-altering terror of child abuse in this atmospheric and visceral jolt of stylized CG called “The Invisible Truth.” [Watch]
75 years ago this month, French composer, organist and ornithologist Olivier Messiaen premiered “Quartet for the End of Time” while held captive in a WWII prisoner-of-war camp. [Watch]
New work from Axis director Ben Hibon always promises atmospheric drama and lots of very cool frames. Latest evidence: this CG trailer for League of Legends: Mind of the Virtuoso for Riot Games. [Watch]
Ton Meijdam, Thom Snels and Béla Zsigmond (aka Studio Smack in the Netherlands), who brought us this piece of low-budget magic, are back with an in-house animated short to ask what would happen if brands could place their advertising in our dreams. [Watch]
