Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
Director/animator Nol Honig: “This film shows how I felt living in New York City during the COVID shutdown. My goal was to push out of my comfort zone both aesthetically and technically and make something very different from my past work. [Watch]
The irksome artifacts of laggy video gaming take on a surreal life of their own in this work from American director Doug Liman (Swingers, The Bourne Identity, etc.) thru Brooklyn agency Madwell with substantial VFX support from MPC. [Watch]
Forever director/animator/editor Fons Schiedon’s natural proclivity for visual insanity helps emphasize the shocking difference between online search results for “climate change” and the actual, real-world human consequences. [Watch]
Director/designer Soyeon Cho, a student at VDAS in Seoul, South Korea, reimagines the look and feel of Estée Lauder’s perfume brand Le Labo across a variety of media including this brand film, the website, and print. [Watch]
Leveraging the intense emotions of six Olympic athletes, Japanese cosmetics brand SK-II launches a series of ambitious and empowering films with the help of Imaginary Forces, Passion Pictures, Platige Image, and C3 thru WPP. [Watch]
Director Zhang Yahui and her studio YAGA Animation in Taipei open the 2021 Vision Get Wild Awards in Taiwan with this non-stop, neo-retro motion frenzy built around the theme “Creating variants, attacking the strong.” [Watch]
According to Wikipedia, trepanation involves drilling or scraping a hole into the human skull. A fun fact that makes it the perfect title for this psychotropic anime-flavored video for the Japanese creative collective Millennium Parade. [Watch]
For the launch of Fender’s American Acoustasonic Jazzmaster guitar, which allows players to blend between acoustic and electronic tones, veteran CG artisans ManvsMachine craft a stunner based on the tagline “The Sonic Shapeshifter”. [Watch]
HP brings together an A-team of the planet’s visual talent for this branded short film commissioned to highlight their line of Z high-performance PCs aimed at designers and creators. [Watch]
The battle between South African Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya and the I.A.A.F. over her gender and ban from competition anchors this crusading film directed by Ralph Karam and animated by the crew at Le Cube for Unilever brand, Lux. [Watch]
NYC studio Bigstar teams with writer/director Robe Imbriano (ABC’s Soul of a Nation) to address the history of white supremacy and how “passive racism perpetuated via white fatigue is the biggest challenge in the fight against racism today.” [Watch]
For their first new music video since releasing the Grammy-winning No Geography album in 2019, The Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons turn to the UK’s master of color and chaos, director/animator Ruffmercy. [Watch]
Miss Sudoku in London: “One canvas created by 49 of the world’s best 3D artists. At a distance, it appears to be a gradient of rich purple through to baked yellow, but looking closer, each artist has created their own mini-masterpiece. [Watch]
Playard Studios director/animator Carlos Fueyo uses Unreal Engine and manual CG modeling from photo references to craft an intricate and engaging tour through a proposed expansion of The Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach. [Watch]
