Working from a script by Toronto agency Broken Heart Love Affair and backed up by VFX from Motif Studios and Tantrum, Scouts Honour director Mark Zibert condenses 4.6 billion years of history into six powerful minutes. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Brand film, Branded Content, Featured, Short Films, VFX · Tags Broken Heart Love Affair, Mark Zibert, Motif Studios, Rajakovic Electric, ROM, Scouts Honour, Tantrum
Formed in 1998, Gorillaz were not the first virtual band (see Alvin and the Chipmunks, 1958) but certainly the coolest and now, almost 25 years later, the quartet moves into a new phase with this mix of 3D and live-action directed by co-founder Jamie Hewlett and Nexus Studios’ Fx Goby. [Watch]
Plenty of strange things are afoot in Atlanta as the fourth and final season of Donald Glover’s multi-award-winning TV series returns to FX Networks this September. [Watch]
Prettybird director Tom Noakes pulls together five VFX and animation studios then pairs them with different literary genres to illustrate “the invisible magic that happens in our imaginations when we read” for Amazon Books thru Droga 5 London. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, Character Animation, Featured, VFX · Tags Amazon, Black Kite, Droga5, Future Power Station, Jimmy Grimes Puppetry, Marcus Armitage, Prettybird, String & Tins, Studio aka, Tom Noakes, Virtual Films, Yibi Hu
Stash 154 just packed another two hours of brilliance into the Stash Permanent Collection (aka your streaming platform for design, animation, and VFX). Grab a peek at the 2-minute trailer and see which projects made the cut. [Watch]
Category 3D Style, Advertising, AI, Animation, Brand film, Broadcast Design, BTS, CG, Character Animation, Compositing, Explainer, Featured, Games, Generative, Graphic Design, Illustration, Machine Learning, Motion Capture, Motion Design, Music Video, Short Films, Student Work, Titles, Typography, VFX, Zoetrope · Tags Alisha Liu, Ambient Press, Beetroot Design, BlinkMyBrain, Brume, Brunch Studio, Chez Eddy, Chiu, Colossal, Division, Electric Theatre Collective, Elefante, Erin Sarofsky, Framestore, Francois Rousselet, Ginny Jones, Glassworks, Henrique Bueno, Igor Sordokhonov, Imaginary Forces, Impactist, Jake Wegesin, Joris Bacquet, Kim Taylor, Ksawery Kirklewski, ManvsMachine, Media.Work, Nexus Studios, okean, Panoply, Persistent Peril, Psyop, Robert Sethi, Ronnie Koff, Sarofsky, Simon Robson, Smith & Foulkes, SOMEI, Stéphane Berla, Temple Caché, Tendril, The Mill, The Panics, Tomas Jonsgarden, Tosh Kodama, Wonderlust, WOUQ
Exploring the history and mythology of the color black, Nextthing director Fu Binbin and McCann Shanghai create an enigmatic drama of grand proportions “to convey a palpable sense of power” for Chevrolet China. [Watch]