Nashville director/animator Allen Laseter interprets a real (and wonderfully surreal) voicemail left for the Lagunitas Brewing Company by a very appreciative customer named Special K. [Watch]
French e-commerce site Cdiscount celebrates 20 years online with a trio of CG spots via Eddy directing collective Boddicker with Paris studio Brunch handling the 3D animation duties. [Watch]
FITC’s Ideas in Motion design conference opened in Toronto this week on an intriguing note set by this title sequence crafted by hometown motion studio IAMSTATIC and a cool track by John Black at Cypher Audio. [Watch]
In their “98% Human” spot, PETA made it very clear they don’t allow animals to be used in the filming of their commercials, so it was up to German VFX company Mackevision to make sure Lucky the pig was indistinguishable from the real thing. [Watch]
The pigment used to print the labels onto Absolut’s 2018 limited edition Love bottle are made from the ink stripped from signs and banners gathered at far-right hate rallies on three continents. [Watch]
NY director/designer John Likens (who just won the 2018 Emmy Award for Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction for his work on the doc “Blood Road”) reveals how his CG title sequence for “Deadpool 2” came together at Method Studios. [Watch]
