Playful abstract animation may not be what comes to mind to open an investigative journalism program, but Riga-based director/illustrators Eduards Balodis and Roberts Rurans do exactly that for Latvian Television (LTV). [Watch]
Stockholm-based art director/motion artist Andreas Wannerstedt, whose mesmerizing CG short films we’ve featured here, returns with a new, playful, and meditative take on magic realism he calls Soft Logic. [Watch]
In direct contrast to the snappy elegance of their recent film for Sonos, the crew at LA 3D motion house Frame48 conjures two elemental torture tests to showcase the impact protection of Lazer’s cycling helmets. [Watch]
New Copenhagen motion studio Ribbit just dropped us their launch project, a fresh and friendly brand film for Birdie, the Danish-designed indoor air quality monitor that uses a canary-in-a-coal-mine metaphor to visualize CO2 levels. [Watch]
If a brand film for your own studio should be fun to work on, co-founders/directors Uri Lotan and Kobi Vogman at Studio Bump in Tel Aviv certainly met the mark in this jaunty mock stop-motion piece called Under Construction. [Watch]
Studio longevity in the motion design world is all too rare, so it’s a pleasure to see yU+co, founded in LA by Garson Yu in 1998, still operating at the top of their game with these titles for the Netflix action-thriller series Man on Fire. [Watch]
