The first of the 2016 feel-good CG holiday ads arrives courtesy of Passion directors againstallodds (who warmed a billion hearts last year with Loteria “Justino”) thru UK agency St Luke’s for British online retailer Very.co.uk. [Watch]
The 2016 STYLE FRAMES design conference opened in spectacular fashion a few hours ago with this luminous title sequence lovingly designed and animated by Hornet director Eran Hilleli with music and sound design from Disasterpeace. [Watch]
Inspiring and surprisingly emotional compilation of thoughts and rants from writer/director Brad Bird (‘The Iron Giant’, ‘The Incredibles,’ ‘Ratatouille’) on his creative process and why animation is not a genre – assembled by Kees van Dijkhuizen Jr., a young film editor from the Netherlands. [Watch]
And the award for the best animated interpretation of classical music in a short film goes to “Preston,” a visceral mini-masterwork of pugilistic excess set to Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 – created by students at French animation/VFX school ISART Digital as their graduation project. [Watch]
Join 35 STYLE FRAMES speakers plus an audience full of designers, directors, animators, ADs, CDs, ACDs, ECDs, producers and EPs, HOPs, VPs, SVPs, VFX artists/supervisors, educators, audio and interactive designers plus VR producers, from all sides of the creative industry. [Watch]
When Donald Trump called Hilary Clinton a “nasty woman,” he unintentionally created a rallying cry for women voters and he also helped reframe how we see women struggling for respect in a world dominated by men. [Watch]
