The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark continues to incubate a broad range of impressive student work including this VFX stunner from a team of six 3rd year Character Animation and CG Arts students: “The fibers of our being are what we seek to control. Through dance, do we fight the chaos or let it go?” [Watch]
Intriguing live action and CG trailer for Polish sci-fi writer Jacek Dukaj’s new novel “The Old Axolotl” from director Maciej Jackiewicz and Warsaw’s 3D powerhouse Platige Image who also handled all the visual content for the e-book and key visuals for the promo campaign. [Watch]
Animation director Luiz Stockler at Agile Films in London leavens Australian surf veteran Rob Bain’s incredible story of a tsunami-induced near death experience with a subdued comic edge in the second of a series for Red Bull Media. [Watch]
Paris motion designer and art director Raphaël Bluzet just dropped us his newest animated short called “IN”: a quick stream of consciousness nightmare based on the illustrations of Yohan Quintar and starring an alternate-universe Buster Keaton re-imagined by Franz Kafka on a rough day. [Watch]
OFFSET, Dublin’s multi-disciplinary creative festival, opened their 2015 presentation on Friday with a title sequence jammed with cheeky felines and freeform typography created by London animation prodco Golden Wolf and hometown audio house Echolab. [Watch]
Blinkink directing duo Tom & Nicos create a striking in-camera mash-up of replacement stop-motion techniques including plasticine, felt and colored wool, plus projections and UV paint in this trailer for the “Cannibis on Trial” episode of Channel 4’s controversial Drugs Live doc series. [Watch]