Jake Dyson Signs to Common People Roster
January 29, 2025
Toronto VFX and post house The Vanity (whose best work we track here), supplies the visual fun in this spot directed by Oscar-winner Joachim Back thru Partners Film and agency Broken Heart Love Affair for The Rec Room. [Watch]
Animation and motion folk! Take a break from the keyframes and the join us at Animorsels on Oct. 24 for a spooky evening of animated fun and drinks featuring ghoulish short animations and a talk by Davey “Swatpaz” Ferguson. [Watch]
Building on the lyrical and emotional power of David Bowie’s “Heroes”, the animation team at Airplan Studio brings period style and plenty of drama to the title sequence for the feature doc Playing to Survive: von Cramm vs Hitler. [Watch]
Master CG stylist Javier Vallejo at JVG in Madrid conjures 30 seconds of iridescent CG optical art in this collaboration between Meta, hip-hop magazine The Source, and California eyewear brand Blenders. [Watch]
Our partners at the Telly Awards honor excellence in video and television across all screens and entries for the 46th season are now open with new and expanded motion categories including Short Films and Realtime Rendering. [Watch]
Drawing inspiration from the style of Studio Ghibli, Brikk Animation leverages the full range of human emotions to highlight the landmine clearance work done by Japanese manufacturing and tech giant Komatsu in Cambodia. [Watch]
Berlin studio Colors And The Kids just dropped us their quick and chaotic pop culture mash-up with Nike x LEGO joining forces for a global campaign designed to work on both mobile screens and massive billboards. [Watch]
Captured entirely in camera with no VFX or post production, Optical Arts’ newest in-house visual experiment Ignis considers the beauty of combustion and “the complex relationship humanity has with fire”. [Watch]
Tokyo-based director/designer Hiroshi Takagishi, whose striking Poem short film we published here, expands on his fascination with organic lifeforms in his new CG motion piece created for display at Museum 1 in Busan, South Korea. [Watch]
3D artist and filmmaker Franz Impler, whose bonkers grad film Out Of Bounds we featured in Stash 149, is back with a new short film – complete with his surreal story-telling and signature unpolished CG style. [Watch]
Channeling his many years creating corporate brand films, motion designer/AD Waldemar Borth takes a satirical poke at the tropes of the genre by fusing his design and post experience with an array of AI tools. [Watch]
The second season of the TV series “Witch: Flamed Heart”, a supernatural drama set in Renaissance Greece, opens with these atmospheric CG titles courtesy of CD Tony Zagoraios and his crew at Yeti Pictures in Athens. [Watch]
Expanding on the miniature world they created for Airbnb’s Aircover spot, group CD Joe Mullen and the BUCK team conjure three new 30-second spots “celebrating those little perks you just can’t find in a hotel.” [Watch]
Jelly directing duo KITCHEN translates four serious super-pollutants into scary/sweet characters in this 90-second animated brand film for The Climate and Clean Air Coalition thru social impact agency Purpose. [Watch]
