Contrasting the tranquil present with the trauma of very recent (and bloody) events, the teams at Feed Me Light in London and Elastic in LA put a new spin on zombie apocalypse scenarios with this opening for Dead Island 2. [Watch]
Category Animation, CG, Featured, Games · Tags Andy Hall, Ben Sumner, Dambuster, Dead Island 2, Deepsilver, Denis Bodart, Feed Good Music, Feed Me Light, Glenn Herweijer, Nadia Tzuo
ECD Vincent Lammers and the Amsterdam studio of Buck head up a massive, multi-technique effort to demystify who and what the software company GitHub is and raise its profile outside the traditional user base of developers. [Watch]
Category Animation, Brand film, CG, Character Animation, Explainer, Featured, Motion Design, VFX · Tags Antfood, buck, GutHub, The Panics, Vincent Lammers
In direct contrast to the perilous scenarios of their 2021 spots for Dell’s Rugged laptops, the design and animation crew at Iamstatic in Toronto frame the brand’s flagship Precision 3000 Series mobile workstations in idyllic CG vignettes. [Watch]
Category 3D Style, Advertising, Brand film, CG, Featured · Tags BODEGA, Bodega Studios, Dave Greene, Dell, Dell Blue, iamstatic, Ron Gervais, Steven Hollman
The ongoing love affair between luxury watches and beautifully crafted CG animation continues with this dynamic and detailed product launch film from the Swiss creative collective PULK for IWC Schaffhausen. [Watch]
If you love character design and animation, you’ll find the ultimate blend of both in the incredibly diverse shorts programs just announced by the always-fabulous Pictoplasma Festival which takes over Berlin May 3–7. [Watch]
Category Animation, CG, Character Animation, Featured, Short Films · Tags AJ Jefferies, Britt Raes, Dante Zabala, Eoin Duffy, Felipe Di Poi, Felix Colgrave, Juan Molinet, Junyi Xiao, Nikola Radulovikj, Opertura, Siyin Chen, Stephen Irwin, Zoe Medcraft
Following up on the voguing praying mantis they created in 2021 for the Nothing Ear (1) earphones, Stockholm studio Swiss International continues to push the boundaries of insect acting with a dung beetle launching the Ear (2). [Watch]