Good Times Signs Director Ayse Altinok for US Representation
November 12, 2024
Los Angeles director/designer and artist Fons Schiedon boils up a heady mix of disorientation and quasi-psychedelics in this new work – laced with CG and low-fi VFX – for Brooklyn band Geese. [Watch]
South Korean studio Super Very More pulls together a multi-faceted production including live-action, motion capture, and 2D animation by Studio Pivote for this music video promoting the world championship of Summoners War, an online fantasy RPG with over 100 million players. [Watch]
The second season of See, the Apple TV+ sci-fi drama set in a post-virus world where humans are left sightless, opens with this sinuous and sinister sequence crafted by director John Likens and the crew at Method Studios. [Watch]
Director Ilya Abulkhanov and The Mill conjure a grand and atmospheric intro of the Witch Queen for the next expansion of Bungie’s free-to-play online multiplayer first-person shooter Destiny 2 launching February 2022. [Watch]
In their latest series title sequence, Patrick Clair and Raoul Marks at Antibody deploy machine learning software to visualize “a sticky, insidious paradise where shimmering sunshine seduces you into a world of dark hearts and exploitation.” [Watch]
UK train operator Avanti West Coast welcomes passengers back with a pixel-perfect rollerblading turtle courtesy of MJZ director Tom Kuntz and London VFX force Untold Studios (the creative pairing who brought us this comedy epic for Hornbach). [Watch]
Conceived as a data visualization research project by the Media.Work team, Bots soon evolved into an “exploration of evolution in a digital environment” complete with minimalist robots interacting with each other and the environment. [Watch]
Canadian artist/photographer/model and director Petra Collins’ second video for actress and pop phenom Olivia Rodrigo features a flurry of animated AR masks created by the Scholar crew that keep the teen angst vibe on the light side. [Watch]
Two of China’s rising CG talents, Somei Sun and Chiu Ho, combine talents to create action on a grand scale with extraordinary attention to detail in this trailer for NetEase Games’ action shooter Super Mecha Champions. [Watch]
Oscar-nominated French directing collective Illogic leverages their many talents to elevate this spot for a non-carbonated soft drink above the fray with careful blocking, snappy pacing, and fabulous character work. [Watch]
Director/animator John Likens at Method Studios in New York: “In 2020, when the pandemic hit hard and sent every VFX and design company scrambling to find solutions for working remotely, I got a call from Alcon Entertainment to pitch on a Blade Runner project.” [Watch]
After 13 years of working in traditional 3D animation, Serbian director Sava Zivkovic explores the real-time motion and lighting possibilities of Unreal Engine in his latest personal project, a dark psychological trip called “Irradiation”. [Watch]
Fueled by a VO from actor/filmmaker Edward Norton, this film for Texas-based biodiversity charity Re:wild keeps the subject of wildlife rangers engaging by leveraging the collage skills of Brazilian motion designer Fernao Spadotto. [Watch]
Culver City studio JAMM and Motif Studios in Cape Town, South Africa, deliver the respective VFX and animation exclamation points for Radical Media director Dave Meyers’ ode to the inspirational powers of Jif peanut butter. [Watch]
