Elastic director Patrick Clair describes his opening titles for the new BBC/AMC co-production The Night Manager as, “A visual collision of exquisite luxury and industrialized violence. Aesthetics, destruction, death, wealth and economics intermix.” [Watch]
Music video directing legend Marc Klasfeld (who just signed with Cavalry Productions for commercials) unveils a giddy, guilty pleasure for the AWOLNATION track “Woman Woman,” calling the video a hymn to all women, “We didn’t add any make-up, we didn’t use any big styling elements, obviously we didn’t use any clothes.”
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1stAveMachine pulls together legendary character designer Wilfrid Wood and London animation studio Red Knuckles to help FCB Inferno London and mega-publisher Pearson focus attention on how many of the planet’s biggest problems stem from the fact three-quarters of a billion humans cannot read or write. [Watch]
Written, directed and animated by Brazilian CG talent André Holzmeister, “Malak and the Boat” is the first in a new animated series sponsored by UNICEF thru agency 180LA called Unfairy Tales designed to highlight the trauma suffered by the youngest victims of the Syrian refugee crisis. [Watch]
Mr Binns (aka London animation director and designer Daniel Binns and a director at Bristol studio Arthur Cox) uses a complex palette and simplified character design to conjure a powerful mix of melancholy and hopefulness in this animated short from a series of interview-based films on post natal depression. [Watch]
London designer, visual artist and filmmaker Fabrice Le Nezet says his new animated 3D short film “Pump” (with music by Paris electro artist Azel Phara) started as a typographic research project inspired by primitive alphabets. [Watch]
