Intermixing the expected action sequences with a surprisingly emotional coming-of-age story, directors CRCR and Paris animation house WIZZ set the tone for Riot’s 2023 Valorant Championship that got underway on August 6 in LA. [Watch]
Category Animation, Character Animation, Featured, Games, Music Video · Tags bbno$, CRCR, Grabbitz, Quad, Riot Games, Valorant, WIZZ
With the third chapter in their Bend Reality short film series, the crew at Barcelona’s Drasik Studio deploy anime and glitchy underground animation styles for an action/fantasy look at the concept of brotherhood. [Watch]
Guido Ekker, aka VFX supervisor and director at The Panics in Amsterdam, unveils Adidas’ new ALTS web3 loyalty concept, mixing motion-capture, hand-held cameras, and a cyber-punk vibe into a pair of gritty, neon-infused films. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, Brand film, CG, Character Animation, Featured, Motion Capture · Tags Adidas Studio A, Guido Ekker, Post Panic, The Midnight Club, The Panics
Blinkink director Raman Djafari unpacks childhood memories of growing up in the Spandau borough of Berlin as the foundation for this dramatic and dreamy solo CG music video for DJ Piper who hails from the same part of the German capital. [Watch]
CD Vincent Ben Abdellah and the design/animation team at Blackmeal in Nantes, France, wrangle a parade of vibrant characters and styles in this brand film for French online music equipment retailer Woodbrass. [Watch]
ECD Gareth O’Brien (whose many design/animation styles can be seen here) leads the BUCK Sydney crew and a trio of expressive CG characters fearlessly into the Australian heat for Taiwan tea franchise Gong Cha. [Watch]