Executive Creative Director Ben Smith and The Mill crew take the CG tableau technique to a new level in this spot for the United States Marine Corps, cramming pivotal historical battles with grit and painstaking detail. [Watch]
Adult Swim reinvigorates the exquisite corpse genre with a three-minute avalanche of style and action featuring the talents of 28 animators and centered on TOM 5.0 the current host of Toonami, the channel’s adult animation block. [Watch]
Category Animation, Broadcast Design, CG, Character Animation, Featured, Illustration, Stop Motion · Tags Adult Swim, Alex Grigg, Alicja Jasina, Brian Smee, David Reilly, Edward Artinian, Einar Baldvin, Grace Mi, Grace Nayoon Rhee, Guilherme Marcondes, Henrique Barone, Jeanette Bonds, Jesse James Dean, Joseph Bennett, Katie Tamboer, Katrina Ruzics, Kris Merc, Lee Hardcastle, Louis Morton, Miguel Jiron, Peter Millard, Quique Rivera, Robertino Zambrano, Ryan Gillis, Sean Buckelew, Sean Glaze, Shoko Hara, Toonami, Yawen Zheng
Turns out life inside a Virgin Media fibre optic connection is just one big rampaging extravaganza of characters and chaos – according to Rogue director Sam Brown and the VFX crew at The Mill in London. [Watch]
They weren’t the first virtual animated band but they were the coolest. Sorry, ARE the coolest. After seven years, 2D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle and Russel Hobbs (aka Gorillaz) are back with a new album and most importantly a new video. [Watch]
Stash 122 does what every Stash issue does, it keeps subscribers inspired by adding another 31 amazing films to the Stash Permanent Collection, the planet’s largest online video library of design, animation, and VFX.
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Category Advertising, Animation, Broadcast Design, BTS, CG, Character Animation, Featured, Motion Design, Music Video, Short Films, VFX · Tags Stash
Maintaining visual and narrative interest for a three minute music video can be hard enough. And it certainly gets tougher when you restrict yourself to a few pins, a roll of paper, red thread, and a glacial camera move. [Watch]