Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
The most reliable way to perk up just about any explainer video is to populate it with smile-inducing characters – exactly the route Buenos Aires studio Buda chose in this film for corporate wellness app Gympass. [Watch]
How do you turn an exposition-heavy and obsessively accurate three-minute depiction of atomic-level chip engineering into a visual adventure? LA studio Midnight Sherpa and agency Bruce Silverstein & Associates have a few ideas. [Watch]
New work from Japanese director/designer Takashi Ohashi is always a treat and this promo for the sixth season of popular kid’s anime series Aware! Meisaku Kun proves why – while continuing his quest for stylistic unpredictability. [Watch]
Bipolar Studio, the LA team who first caught our eye with a serene glimpse at the airborne future of Uber, cranks up the voltage in this new work to reveal the future of Porsche – the all-electric Taycan. [Watch]
The backstories of online gaming superstars Ninja (Richard Tyler Blevins), Pokimane (Imane Anys), and TimTheTatMan (Timothy John Betar) come to rampaging life in the skilled hands of Giant Ant for live streaming platform Twitch. [Watch]
UK directing duo Jim and Matt at Leeds animation studio Northforge merge 3D and 2D techniques to bring the plight of Armenian brown bears to the world’s attention for conservation non-profit International Animal Rescue. [Watch]
Working thru agency Across the Pond, London’s Art&Graft wrangle new AI image simulation software to craft a painterly tour for Google and “inspire a future generation about the incredible potential of quantum computing.” [Watch]
Populating live-action miniatures with storybook CG characters, director Nick Groeneveld and the Amsterdam studio of Ambassadors make the case that “money can create happiness” in their latest film for ASN Bank. [Watch]
Pulse Films director Ninian Doff and Bristol VFX shop nineteentwenty (the pairing who brought us this veggie apocalypse) reteam to create a diminutive but determined robot eco-warrior for IKEA thru Mother London. [Watch]
Nerdo studio in Turin, Italy: “[With] 24 teams, 184 riders, 21 stages, 3450 kilometers, the Giro D’Italia is one of the most important world cyclist competitions… celebrating the heritage of a sport with more than 100 years of history in Italy. [Watch]
The combined talents of director/animator Alex Grigg, illustrator Matt Blease, and music house Pitch & Sync capture a 40-second jaunt with a serious message for UK beverage maker innocent drinks and their “Big Environmental Dreams”. [Watch]
Merging modern sports action with traditional Japanese art, director Geoffroy Barbet-Massin and the Mikros MPC crew in Paris unleash a finely drafted promo for France Television’s coverage of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. [Watch]
Blinkink director/animator Raman Djafari turns his distinctively bent narrative vision loose for eight solid minutes in this CG extravaganza for Brighton’s post-punk outfit Squid and their label Warp Records. [Watch]
3D artist and motion designer Zuzanna Kołodziej in Gdynia, Poland: “In Polish, the word describing soil (ziemia) is synonymous to ‘Earth’, which I think is a meaningful coincidence. [Watch]
