Glasgow design and motion studio Playdead stepped into the limelight at the 2020 Scottish Design Awards last week, winning the Grand Prix as well as designing this opening sequence for the event’s awards night. [Watch]
The VFX crew at Untold in London, who brought you this fire-sneezing dragon and this very calm bull, pack the digital muscle onto the latest comedy epic for European DIY chain Hornbach, directed by Tom Kuntz thru Heimat Berlin. [Watch]
WIZZ stop-motion specialist Victor Hagelin, who graced the cover of Stash 131 with his fabulous “Captain 3D” short, is back with more frame-by-frame fun in this new spot for travel site Expedia thru agency TeamOne LA. [Watch]
Chosen as the UK City of Culture for 2021, Coventry celebrates its diverse history of innovation in industry, music, art, and activism with this promo from director/animator Ewan Jones Morris and the motion design team at Friends Electric. [Watch]
After a COVID-induced delay, the 2020 College football season roared back onto ESPN last week, wrapped in a high-octane branding and promo package from the design and animation crew at Elastic. [Watch]
Somesuch director Daniel Wolfe, editor Paul Watts, and The Mill VFX team craft the riveting origin story of Maurice Ashley, a chess-obsessed Brooklyn kid who became the game’s first black grandmaster. [Watch]
