Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
Wonderfully enigmatic new work here from London-based French animator (and former member of collective CRCR) Jonathan Djob Nkondo and illustrator/designer Sofia Pashaei, announcing the 2021 edition of the non-profit GLAS Animation Festival. [Watch]
Tendril’s latest adventure in beautiful CG engagement arrives in the form of an announcement for the partnership between psychedelic research company Cybin and neuroimaging innovator Kernel and the goal to “revolutionize mental healthcare”. [Watch]
Imaginary Forces director Karin Fong mixes live-action, practical effects, and CG in this standout package for Showtime’s docuseries Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine recounting the antics of a notorious hip-hop bad boy. [Watch]
The unmistakable stop-motion charm of Passion Animation director Anna Mantzaris energizes the dry comedy of this spot marking International Women’s Day for Global Women thru Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand. [Watch]
The ongoing resonance of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution snaps into stark focus in the Netflix docu-series “Amend: The Fight for America” thanks to powerful animation and graphics by LA studios Elastic and Titmouse. [Watch]
Shanghai director and motion designer Gigu Yang channels his passion for Hidetaka Miyazaki’s action-adventure video game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice into a meticulous and moody spec CG title sequence. [Watch]
ROOF Studios leverages their obsession with the smallest of life’s details to help connect modern audiences with the emotional story of an elderly German woman and her forced separation from family and loved ones during World War II. [Watch]
Friends and co-directors Stevie Borrello, Marcie LaCerte, and Meghan McDonough gather a series of real-life pandemic dreams into a surreal yet very resonant string of animated vignettes presented by The New Yorker. [Watch]
First conceived as the title sequence for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, this HBO Max promo uses the sentient autonomous computers known as Mother Boxes from the film as a way to explore the history of the six core superheroes. [Watch]
In 2020, director Ben Hibon and the animation team at Unit Image dropped two massive trailers for Riot Games’ new digital collectible card game Legends of Runeterra (here and here). This latest film is just as ambitious and carefully crafted. [Watch]
Art director and 3D animator Jake Wegesin, whose 2019 short Next Flight Home warmed hearts in Stash 136, just dropped us his latest film – inspired by an unexpected custom in his new hometown of Copenhagen, Denmark. [Watch]
The frog character introduced in e-bike maker VanMoof’s last spot (a cool CG number from The Mill) steers a completely different course in new work by London illustrator Jim Stoten and Cape Town animation studio Bewilder. [Watch]
One of the most visually and technically innovative student films you will see this year, Cassie Shao’s USC grad film “There Were Four of Us” was originally inspired by a dream then gained added dimensions with the death of her grandfather. [Watch]
A new must-see touring exhibition documenting the collaboration of David Bowie and English photographer Brian Duffy over five albums from 1972 to 1980 becomes all the more intriguing with this promo by Scottish motion director Chris Bain. [Watch]
