Nate Sherman and Nick Vokey, the creative duo behind “Fired on Mars” (one of my favorite animated shorts of the decade) are back with another fabulous look at social norms/weirdness in the lowkey black comedy “Wet City.” [Watch]
Elastic creative directors Lisa Bolan and Nadia Tzuo opened Sony Pictures’ “Girl in the Spider’s Web” with inky, sinister CG to create “metaphor and abstract visual language to hint at the main character’s untold history.” [Watch]
Fourteen Montréal motion designers indulge their “desire to play together instead of just working together” with this kinetic and freeflowing celebration of the world of pinball. [Watch]
Category Animation, Featured, Motion Design, Short Films · Tags Alex Girard, Dalkhafine, Hugo Hugo, Jordan Coelho, Josselin Bey, Lorry Barbedette, Louis Robert, Maylee Keo, Philip Grignon, Rémi Vincent, Sebastien Camden, Stefano Gemmellaro, Vince Hurtu, Vincent Raineri
In their latest adventure merging in-house musical and visual delights, Kelly Meador and Daniel Elwing (aka Impactist) explore the existential aspects of pizza and its rightful place in the universe. [Watch]
Shanghai director/designer Somei Sun gathers nine artists to create dynamic and disparate logo treatments for VIVO’s powerful new gaming-centric iQOO mobile phone. [Watch]
Category Animation, CG, Character Animation, Featured, Motion Design · Tags Baku Hashimoto, Haran Jung, Martin Gunnarsson, Masanobu Hiraoka, MIXCODE, Nicolas Girard, Nidia Dias, SEENVISION, SOMEI, Yambo studio
Brooklyn designer/animator Caresse Haaser brings a soft illustrative touch to this visual essay about the nature and direction of today’s online ecosystem written, voiced, and art directed by Alexis Lloyd at Automattic Design. [Watch]