Game developers rely on just a handful of studios to create AAA game trailers and cinematics but the list narrows further when you need to add comedy and character to your action. This trailer for Trion Worlds’ new team tactics game Atlas Reactor relies on director Jeff Fowler and the Blur Studio team to do just that.
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Fresh off his Emmy win for Outstanding Main Title Design on The Man In The High Castle, Elastic director Patrick Clair invokes a touch of future-tech terror pushing 3D printing into beautiful and ominous new territory in these opening credits from Episode 1 of Westworld on HBO. [Watch]
Warsaw studio Juice teams with VFX pioneer/icon Scott Ross (creative producer and narrator) to conjure much drama and volumetric atmosphere in this mix of live action and CG for the fourth edition of Portugal-based digital art event Trojan Horse was a Unicorn. [Watch]
“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]
