Once in a while Monty Python’s segue “and now for something completely different” rings very true in life or in art. Case in point: Project Gooseberry aka “Cosmos Laundromat,” the sixth film from open source CG pioneers Blender Institute helmed by French director Mathieu Auvray. [Watch]
The Buck crew help Wieden+Kennedy break Nike out of the footwear industry’s recent (and spectacular) CG habit with these two short blasts of extreme 2D action for Hypervenom soccer boots as worn by Brazil’s captain Neymar Jr. and Poland’s captain Robert Lewandowski. [Watch]
Director Mark Lindner at London studio Panoply says the studio’s sleek and fractured new CG opus “Genesis” draws “heavily on a visual currency distilled from the subconscious and the psychology of self [and] dares us to fleetingly glimpse our own origins, our civilization and the known universe.” Audio by Echoic. [Watch]
For a curator, few things compare to the jolt of excitement when you stumble upon promising talent, especially if their work is still very personal and not yet burdened with the harsh realities of the design business [Watch]
The frustration of slow mobile downloads perfectly expressed in three over-the-top metaphor-dramadies courtesy of the all-Buenos Aries team of director Jonathan Gurvit, VFX house La Posta and agency Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi for the BGH G4 LTE smartphone. [Watch]
Nikolina Kulidžan was 12 when civil war interrupted her first romance. Her warm, tear-inducing tale of remembrance and reconnection anchors the latest installment in the New York Times’ Modern Love series and features the formidable illustration and animation talents of London’s Moth Collective. [Watch]
