With over 450 scripted series airing in the US during 2016, it’s safe to say a show’s title sequence is more crucial than ever in helping it stand apart from the pack. Here’s the most interesting work we found this year plus three exceptional event titles that also deserve your love. [Watch]
Hideyuki Tanaka and his Tokyo prodco Frame Graphics prove maximalist bubblegum is alive and thriving in Japan with this kooky and complex candy store of motion capture, CG and compositing for the track “Sai & Co” from Japanese fashion model and singer Kiriko Takemura aka Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. [Watch]
With a running time of almost 2.5 hours, Stash 115 is guaranteed to overload your inspiration receptors with brilliant design, animation, VFX, and behind-the-scenes features plus exclusive interviews with the talent behind the brilliance. [Watch]
Directing collective bif, aka Jules Janaud and Fabrice Le Nezet, (both seasoned 3D artists, represented by Mill+ in London) combine motion capture and procedural animation/rendering to build a full-CG blast of escalating action for rising Parisian electro artist Azel Phara. [Watch]
Turning rock stars into motion-captured dancing apes will cause both snickers and shudders in some quarters, but UK director Mat Whitecross lets fun trump any and all artistic concerns in his new Coldplay video with Andy Serkis in charge of MC and Mathematic creating the CG chimps and their jungle environment. [Watch]
How can a music video director make their low budget production punch out of the frothy torrent of visual media released everyday? The truth is (and therefore the fun is), no one has a clue. Enter Studio Smack, Floris Kaayk and their intense new work for “Witch Doctor” by Dutch alt rockers De Staat. [Watch]
