Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
The all-Taiwan team of director/designer Audis Huang and Moonshine Animation hammered away for six weeks on this sleek and sweeping film featured during the launch event for Lenovo’s Legion gaming PCs and laptops. [Watch]
Mobile maker OnePlus upped their camera game by partnering with photo uber-brand Hasselblad and then hired Final Frontier director BlinkMyBrain (aka Ariel Costa) as part of their push to make sure Chinese consumers know about it. [Watch]
IC-United Studios in Beijing merge digital fashion, mocap dance, and dream-induced environments into a surreal and somewhat disorienting CG short film for Nowness, called PATTERN. [Watch]
Toiling out of studios in Moscow and London, the team at Media.Work take a break from their commercial assignments to flex their experimental ambitions in this sculptural CG exploration of computing processes. [Watch]
Beyond, the annual data analytics conference presented by California software maker ThoughtSpot opened the latest edition virtually with this vibrant exercise in color and geometry – part of a full graphics package delivered by LeftChannel. [Watch]
Creature, a tiny motion and archviz studio in Lyon, France leverages their CG talents into a stylish and compelling promotional video for local company Forginal Industrie, a family-owned manufacturer of precision metal forgings. [Watch]
Back in 2015, O Positive director Jim Jenkins and The Mill created one of our fave commercials of all time: Snickers “Brady Bunch”, and now they’re at it again in this snappy character study for real estate marketplace Zillow. [Watch]
Laundry detergent is not a category often associated with noteworthy design but that prejudice may be changing with this recent work from Buenos Aires motion masters Lumbre and agency 9Rooftops for appliance giant Whirlpool. [Watch]
Expanding on their landmark 2014 film Walking City, CD Matt Pyke and Universal Everything installed this witty and hypnotic three-minute work for the opening of Hyundai’s Motorstudio in Busan, South Korea. [Watch]
Psyop/Blacklist directing collective CRCR lathers up a flurry of anime-inspired action/comedy in this new Head & Shoulders spot animated by Wizz in Paris thru agency Forsman & Bodenfors Singapore for the Japanese market. [Watch]
Black humor, celebrity voices, and feature-quality stop-motion all merge into a forceful, emotional, and quietly affecting message from the Humane Society International and their global campaign to ban animal testing for cosmetics. [Watch]
Nominated for a 2021 VES Student Award, Time’s Down by five recent graduates from French digital arts school ArtFX mixes blazing action, snarky dialogue, and seamless execution into a fabulous cyberpunk romp. [Watch]
Creative director Tom Dibb, who is responsible for The Mill’s direct-to-brand projects, leads the team in this elegant and often ethereal film for Samsung’s new Notebook Plus2 while always maintaining a sense of playfulness and surprise. [Watch]
In the first chapter of Adobe’s “Creativity Explained” series, the oddfellows crew translates the warmth and wisdom of German typographer/designer/author Erik Spiekermann into an inspirational mini-manifesto for creatives everywhere. [Watch]
