UK artist Mat Collishaw teams with fellow Londoner Sebastian Burdon (who handled the 3D modeling and animation) to create a mesmerizing and impossibly detailed 3D-printed zoetrope composed of over 350 character figures plus props and environmental elements. [Watch]
Snappy and detailed look at the production of “Adventure in the City,” a crazy-ambitious stop motion mini-epic created for LEGO China from hundreds of thousands of real LEGO bricks (and a boy in a snake suit) by Dutch director/writer/animator Rogier Wieland and his intrepid crew thru AKQA Shanghai. [Watch]
A blast of intense time-jumping action for your Wednesday morning introducing a new League of Legends champion, Ekko: The Boy Who Shattered Time. Created for RIOT Games by Passion Paris directors Arnaud & Jerome and their long-time collaborator Pascal Charrue (a co-founder of Fortiche Production). [Watch]
Creative Director Dennis Go and the Brand New School crew keep the Oreo fun alive in this newest spot called Oreo “Spark Some Wonder” thru The Martin Agency. [Watch]
Paris 3D masters Mécanique Générale and TBWA\Paris help the Martell family celebrate “300 years of turning Cognac into art” with this intricate and ambitious single-shot look at the company and its legacy. [Watch]
CG humans constructed of particles (often rendered as liquid of some kind) are common enough to qualify as their own genre. And while many of those projects get high marks for technical proficiency, few if any have elicited an emotional response close to the disturbing melancholy invoked by this unrelenting monochrome opus called “Granularity (video edit)” by the London musician and visual artist known as Redhoot. [Watch]