How do you keep a fact-filled product film visually and emotionally engaging for three minutes? Director Thomas Traum and his team at TRAUM INC deliver the answer in this smooth and nimble explainer for the re-engineered Beats Pill Bluetooth speaker. [Watch]
Category 3D Style, Brand film, CG, Featured, Motion Design, VFX · Tags Apple Beats, Beats by Dre, Jake Troth, Kuedo, Michael Malowanczyk, ONE-IS, Thomas Traum, Traum Inc
The planet’s only streaming platform dedicated to motion design, animation, and VFX – aka the Stash Permanent Collection – keeps growing with the addition of issue 166, packing in another two full hours of inspiration and insight. [Watch]
Category 3D Style, Advertising, AI, Animation, Brand film, BTS, BTS, CG, Character Animation, Explainer, Featured, Illustration, Motion Design, Music Video, R&D, Short Films, Spec work, Titles, Typography, VFX · Tags Antoine Bardou Jacquet, Balázs Simon, Bark&Bite, BlinkInk, Boris Wilmot, Brikk, Bureau Klaus Alman, Chez Eddy, Clément Soulmagnon, Clim Studio, Electric Theatre Collective, Eoin Duffy, Fabrice Le Nezet, Form Films, Framestore, Illogic, Korb, Kyungrae Yu, Le Cube, le truc, Louve Karnas, ManvsMachine, Mike Drayton, Optical Arts, Psyop, Pulla Studio, Raman Djafari, Romain Chassaing, Romain Loubersanes, Runway Studio, Sailor Productions, Setreset, Studio Belly, Studio Ianus, Studio Mals, Sunny Vfx, The Line, The Mill, Titmouse, TONIC DNA, Trizz, Vallée Duhamel, William Bartlett, Woodblock
Futhark Studios, who hit the Stash radar with this CG product film earlier this year, reveals the thinking and process behind the studio’s first passion project, a visceral ode to street racing inspired by memories of a certain 2005 game trailer. [Watch]
Expanding on their 2023 motion experiment After Light, directors Julien Vallée and Eve Duhamel weave together live-action, CG, and a variety of AI tools for The Pulse Within, their short film which premiered at the Tribeca Festival. [Watch]
Poultry-inspired choreography provides the driving force in this wonderfully bizarre KFC spot from Business Club director Vedran Rupic (thru Mother London with VFX and post from Black Kite) asking citizens of the UK to Believe in Chicken. [Watch]
London VFX masters Electric Theatre Collective and Partizan director Antoine Bardou-Jacquet (whose last collab was this mini-superhero romp for Coke) re-team for more world-building fun in a pair of spots for Audible thru agency Fold7. [Watch]