Working with Pulse Films director Colin Read, CD Will Johnson and the Scholar crew return to the Made on iPad pipeline with this hand-animated guide to the three phases of a breakup as experienced by singer-songwriter Maren Morris. [Watch]
Merging original footage, 250 costumed performers, and proprietary post techniques, MJZ director Nicolai Fuglsig and London VFX shop Selected Works update a classic scene from Sylvester Stallone’s 1979 blockbuster Rocky II for UK bookmaker Ladbrokes.
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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]
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]
