In a welcome contrast to the reverent tone of much Olympic content, directors Jean-Yves Parent and Michael Moercant (aka 4pm) at The Mill in Paris celebrate the event with a lighthearted in-house short film cast with antique tin toy characters. [Watch]
After 18 months of production, director/CD Jake Wegesin, who launched animation studio Ambient Press in 2022, just completed 16+ minutes of snappy 3D content for New Roots Films’ feature documentary God Bless Bitcoin. [Watch]
Mill+ director David Lawson gives Stash fans exclusive insights into the creative and technical challenges of his latest 3D game trailer and considers how the genre has evolved over the last five years. [Watch]
Continuing their quest to raise awareness of global issues, Studio Birthplace leverage their narrative and VFX talents to help environmental non-profit Canopy sound the alarm that 3.1 billion trees are cut each year for paper packaging. [Watch]
Beijing’s Ollie Studio, whose work for BMW made the Best of Stash 2023 Brand Films list, and CD Chui Ho team up for Xiaomi to interrupt the seemingly endless torrent of CG phone films. [Watch]
Paris-based 3D artist Sylvain Gaussens, whose previous CG motion experiments we covered here and here, recently dropped a dramatic new short film called Dreamers that he describes as a “personal playground”. [Watch]