The Light and BIEN Form Creative and Strategic Alliance
January 7, 2025
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]
After being struck by Riho Makise’s 1993 hit “Miracle Love” online, Chinese visual designer and 3D artist Zaoeyo committed to making a project “based on the song’s mood and seeing how far I could achieve realism in that ‘city pop’ style.” [Watch]
In his latest personal short film How Have You Been?, director/animator Andy Baker reteams with London illustrator Polly Nor for a surreal look at “coping with grief, depression, and the mundanity of life in lockdown.” [Watch]
Paris multidisciplinary creative studio Services Généraux makes its Stash debut with this sleek, tactile, and ultimately envy-inducing product film for the innovative Gemini earbuds from French luxury audio brand Devialet. [Watch]
CD and founder Matt Pyke at Universal Everything: “Infinity is a never-ending video artwork, an endless parade of unique personalities born from code. Glimpse something new every time you look, for every minute, of every day, forever.” [Watch]
Berlin studio Color and the Kids gather a team of top CG talent to create a string of vibrant and enigmatic broadcast IDs as part of a network rebrand by Scandanavian agency Bold for Norwegian free-to-air commercial channel TV 2. [Watch]
The latest in Deutsch LA’s series of spots for Taco Bell’s Nacho Fries wrangles classic anime action and dialogue into a beat-perfect parody courtesy of Psyop directors Luca Vitale, Kylie Matulick, and Japanese studios Yapiko and Echelle Animation. [Watch]
Following up on this striking film, Brighton’s own Bolder Creative reteams with agency Identity to mix in-camera effects with elegant CG on their stylish new outing for cycling apparel brand ASSOS of Switzerland. [Watch]
Hornet directors Natalie Labarre and Yves Geleyn help Century 21 celebrate 50 years in the real estate trade with a series of warm-hearted (and in one case, tear-inducing) real-world stories from agents who go above and beyond selling houses. [Watch]
Following up on their striking work for Balenciaga’s Spring 22 Clones Collection, the MPC teams in London and Bangalore draw on a 2010’s videogame aesthetic to build out a melancholy love story set in a VR-obsessed future dystopia. [Watch]
The Kansas City combo of indie rockers Hembree and design studio Carpenter Collective join forces with the animation talents at Igor + Valentine on a warm and jaunty music video powered by the band’s new track “Reach Out”. [Watch]
Elevate your creative output with a blast of inspiration from Stash 148, the latest must-see addition to the Stash Permanent Collection, the definitive video archive of brilliant motion design, animation, and VFX projects. [Watch]
