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November 12, 2024
Director Elyse Kelly brings a thoughtful approach and painterly touch to Barbra Streisand’s “Be Aware”, a song written and recorded in the 1970s to address homelessness and hunger and the first track on a new album of previously unreleased material. [Watch]
Important Looking Pirates, the Stockholm VFX crew who count credits on The Mandalorian, Westworld, and Watchmen, recently dropped their first cinematic for the game industry, an insanely ambitious nine-minute epic for Battlefield 2042. [Watch]
You don’t have to be a basketball fan (or a Canadian) to appreciate the spirited character work in this series of branded content films by Toronto studio Reactiv for the NBA, Sportsnet, and sponsor Tangerine Bank. [Watch]
Toronto designer/director Andrew Vucko’s talent for stripped-down visual solutions ensures this show package for the Netflix series Untold Stories stays both upbeat and elegant. [Watch]
After three years of internal development, Los Angeles visual and creative laboratory Chromosphere is about to drop a dashing three-episode animated mini-series starring super-spy Yuki 7, her talking cat, and a rocket-powered turtle man. [Watch]
The latest real-time CG work from director Han Yang and Shape Shifters Creative in Vancouver uses Unreal Engine 5 and the cloud-streamed app MetaHuman Creator to craft a tense and intimate fantasy that suggests the future of video production is already here. [Watch]
The All-Sydney directing team of Tom Noakes, Will Goodfellow (from prodco GOONO) and Greg Sharp (from Truba Animation) conjure an anime adrenaline fest for Bosnian-Swedish DJ/producer Salvatore Ganacci. [Watch]
Urged on by the words of English performance poet John Cooper Clarke, creative director Stefan Falconer and the crew at Golden Wolf layer up a barrage of collage for adidas and Manchester United through London agency Homeground. [Watch]
Directors Katrina Crawford and Mark Bashore at Seattle studio Plains of Yonder team with Sydney illustrator Lezio Lopes to capture the eccentric spirit of HBO’s new social satire The White Lotus with a sequence of finely detailed wallpaper patterns. [Watch]
While studying illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig Germany, Franz Impler taught himself 3D animation then went on to break every rule and convention of the genre in his wonderfully bizarre thesis project “Out Of Bounds”. [Watch]
Inspired by the idea of “predetermined resilience”, Scottish studios Playdead and Eyebolls create a tough little glass protagonist navigating a perilous and crowded landscape in this brand film for investment managers Baillie Gifford. [Watch]
Los Angeles motion design studio BIEN helps the city’s Getty Museum attract a younger and more diverse base of visitors with this series of upbeat, collage-driven explainer films designed to appeal to sixth-graders. [Watch]
Directors Ryo Kitabatake and Takuma Sasaki at WOW in Tokyo commemorate the studio’s 25th anniversary with a visceral CG nightmare for the ages with help from UK real-time and volumetric content specialists Dimension Studio. [Watch]
Inspired by the idea of future generations traveling back in time via “data excavation”, Polish designer/animator and programmer Ksawery Kirklewski mixes code and images from his own past to create a mesmerizing video for Dutch composer Joep Beving. [Watch]
