The Stash Permanent Collection, aka the planet’s only streaming platform dedicated to motion design, animation, and VFX, just added another massive chapter of inspiration and behind-the-scenes features with issue 165. [Watch]
Category 3D Style, Advertising, AI, Animation, Brand film, Broadcast Design, BTS, BTS, CG, Character Animation, Explainer, Featured, Games, Illustration, Miniatures, Motion Design, Music Video, Short Films, Spec work, Stop Motion, Titles, Typography, VFX · Tags Aardman, ACHT, Antibody, Antoine Bardou Jacquet, Antoni Sendra, Assembly, Aydream, Bolder Creative, CLAN, Digital Kitchen, Ditroit, Division, Dog & Rabbit, Duncan Elms, Elastic, Electric Theatre Collective, FINCH, Futhark Studios, FX Design, Inertia Studios, Landia, ManvsMachine, Mathematic, Method Studios, Michael Fragstein, MonoGrafo, Mrzyk & Moriceau, Parallel Studios, Partizan, Patrick Clair, Pierrick Picaut, Polymath, Reactiv, Someform, Stylo Creative, The Mill, Vitor Cervi, YETI Pictures, Yves Dalbiez
CG/VFX artist and designer Alejandro Robledo Mejia (aka RMA) – whose title credits include the Super Bowl, and several Marvel properties – packs this opening sequence for the FITC 2024 event with lots of shiny symbolism based on the creative process. [Watch]
Leaning away from the stark beauty of the ongoing CG luxury watch wars, the motion team at FutureDeluxe frames the mechanical precision of Hublot’s Unico movement in time-warped and fashion-forward live-action. [Watch]
London VFX masters Electric Theatre Collective and Partizan director Antoine Bardou-Jacquet (whose ample talent for CG-enhanced live-action can be seen in this classic) combine forces for a fun trip thru the Marvel Universe with Coca-Cola. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, CG, Character Animation, Featured, VFX · Tags Antoine Bardou Jacquet, Coca-Cola, Electric Theatre Collective, Gut, Landia, Nomad, Partizan, Walt Disney
AI escapes our devices and hijacks our bodies in this gradually intensifying title sequence from the 2024 edition of OFFF Barcelona by Scottish/Canadian filmmaker Stuart Langfield with Glasgow studio Revenant handling VFX. [Watch]
Working with Toronto prodco Impossible Studios, director/CD Alon Isocianu and Reactiv weave together live-action with delicate floral VFX in a striking piece for the Canadian Cancer Society that he calls “a real labor of love for a great cause.” [Watch]