“Into The Current” is the first novel from Canadian writer and agency creative director Jared Young. Here’s the happy story of how the trailer for the book – a striking sequence created by Ottawa motion artist Chris Moberg – came to be. [Watch]
The Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg’s massive annual four-day music bacchanal, launches today with these playful titles full of smooth and soothing CG via hometown motion designers Vitaly Grossmann and Vincent Schwenk. [Watch]
New on the Stash radar: Shawn Wang, a CG generalist and motion designer living in Shanghai who completed “Planet Unknown,” his audacious debut 3D short (complete with a sweeping cinematic score from Echoic Audio) during his final year at Communication University of China. [Watch]
Confessed football and sneaker zealots, London studio FutureDeluxe admit they pour too much time and love into jobs like this spot for Nike’s Magista 2 boot. Revealed here for the first time are some of the striking style frames from the pitch that landed the gig. [Watch]
Partizan director Grady Hall, best known as a founding father of Motion Theory, teams with Beck to co-helm “WOW,” a non-linear amalgam of wild west imagery, general randomness, and arresting CG and animation clips sourced from Instagram talent including… [Watch]
Moonbot co-founder – illustrator/designer/sculptor/director/Oscar and Emmy winner – Brandon Oldenburg turns the studio’s many talents to a new in-house 3G animated short called “Taking Flight” inspired by the life of Antonio Pasin, inventor of the Radio Flyer wagon. [Watch]
