Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
Following standout work for both Thom Yorke and Mitski in 2019, director Saad Moosajee gift wraps dance, costume, VFX, and motion capture in Renaissance lighting for this music video for Japanese singer/songwriter Joji. [Watch]
Smuggler director Jaron Albertin and the MPC design/VFX team offer a glimpse at the future of advertising production in this fully-remote CG spot created with the Unreal game engine and starring the Lexus LF-30 electric concept car. [Watch]
The game trailer and music video genres collide and become one is this new promo starring the CG doppelganger of British rapper/phenom Stormzy produced by Ubisoft Toronto entirely within the Watch Dogs: Legion game engine. [Watch]
In her first project since signing to the Passion Paris roster, director Roxane Campoy conjures a genial solar system designed to highlight the array of eco-responsibility projects supported by UNESCO’s Green Citizens initiative. [Watch]
Intricate and hypnotic, this new video for Wagon Christ (aka Luke Vibert), animated in Photoshop and rendered in hand-drawn 2D by director/illustrator Celyn Brazier, expands on the pair’s 2011 collaboration for the track “Chunkothy”. [Watch]
Passion director Félicien Colmet Daâge captures both the ennui and violence in the daily life of disenfranchised Paris youth in this languid and cinematic video for French acid indie-pop band Kriill. [Watch]
A crew of lovable but hapless gummy worms faces down a series of existential crises in the latest handmade animated work from Blinkink director Sam Gainsborough for German confectionery brand Trolli. [Watch]
Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon bring their Oscar-nominated talents for character and narrative to Greenpeace’s ongoing media battle to stop deforestation in this follow-up to Passion’s breakout 2018 spot “Rang-tan”. [Watch]
NYC animation/VFX studio Bonfire and agency DiMassimo Goldstein craft striking metaphors to deliver a solid emotional punch in this PSA for US non-profit Partnership to End Addiction powered by music from The Lumineers. [Watch]
Back in 2015, Caviar director Keith Schofield hosed down the relentless flow of skateboard videos with his low-tech VFX fest for Joywave’s “Somebody New” – now he’s having his way with just-as-tiresome club and DJ tropes. [Watch]
Directors Ibran Trassierra and Marcello Buselli at Device in Barcelona translate the linear visions of Italian illustrator Jonathan Calugi into a nonstop flow of minimalist engagement in this spot for new Spanish telco Guuk. [Watch]
Giant Ant created these five environmental explainers about the urgency of combating climate change for TED in just four weeks, with a compelling VO from actress/producer Kristen Bell anchoring the message. [Watch]
The latest episode of Chromebook’s The Adulthood, an insightful series about “finding your way in the modern world” designed and animated by the crew at Friends Electric, features North Carolina rapper Jonathan Lyndale Kirk (aka DaBaby). [Watch]
Royal College of Art grad Zohar Dvir describes her student film Mercury’s Retrograde as “an inner dialogue about seeking answers, presented in a comic and lighthearted way, concealing a deeper tragic truth of our generation.” [Watch]
