French luxury department store Galeries Lafayette embraces their inner enfant terrible in this grand and aggressive TV/online spot from Hamlet directing duo BRTHR and VFX shop HIMIA thru DDB Paris. [Watch]
Working with Park Pictures director Terri Timely, VFX/post house ArtJail manifests a vast gallery of virtual joy in this breezy short film for Google’s subscription cloud storage solution for Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos. [Watch]
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]
