David Conley Appointed President of MPC
December 2, 2024
Tektite, a German studio specializing in AI production for brands and advertising, teams with agency TEAMBBDO to create “The Revived”, a tribute to Ukrainian athletes killed defending their country in the war with Russia. [Watch]
Blinkink director Sam Gainsborough reteams with animator Andy Biddle on this innovative spot for British retailer Co-op thru agency VCCP, printing 900 2D frames onto individual shop receipts and then animating them in stop-motion. [Watch]
Continuing their quest to raise awareness of global issues, Studio Birthplace leverage their narrative and VFX talents to help environmental non-profit Canopy sound the alarm that 3.1 billion trees are cut each year for paper packaging. [Watch]
ECD Martin Schurmann and the animation team at Vascolo in Buenos Aires transport viewers back to historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, in this promo for a special MLB game honoring the Negro Leagues and their greatest players. [Watch]
Beijing’s Ollie Studio, whose work for BMW made the Best of Stash 2023 Brand Films list, and CD Chui Ho team up for Xiaomi to interrupt the seemingly endless torrent of CG phone films. [Watch]
Following up on their collage work for Penhaligon earlier this year, the design and animation crew at Tigrelab offer a peak into the range of motion techniques used on their recent spot for Athenian Brewery’s Mamos Unfiltered. [Watch]
To celebrate their first birthday, the team at AI creative agency faith used themselves as the guinea pig to explore practical uses of Gen-AI and test the tools’ abilities “to create films within a consistent brand world.” [Watch]
Paris-based 3D artist Sylvain Gaussens, whose previous CG motion experiments we covered here and here, recently dropped a dramatic new short film called Dreamers that he describes as a “personal playground”. [Watch]
Drawing inspiration from editorial illustrations, Boston-based director/animator Rohan McDonald develops a minimal yet warm and engaging collage treatment for the animated segments of the documentary Admissions Granted. [Watch]
Blinkink director/animator Raman Djafari gathers 14 very diverse animators (whose styles include stop-motion, 2D, 3D, oil pastels, watercolor, and felt) to join him in this visual feast for the Coldplay single “feelslikeimfallinginlove”. [Watch]
In direct contrast to the cool temperament of their recent spot for Arc’teryx (and the vast majority of the sports footwear category), the crew at FutureDeluxe choose a refreshingly irreverent and quirky direction for G/FORE’s G/18 golf shoe. [Watch]
Apple’s latest volley against the online surveillance economy is a gently comic nod to Hitchcock and Orwell courtesy of Smuggler director Ivan Zacharias with avaricious metalic avians via VFX shops Legacy Effects and House of Parliament. [Watch]
Three powerhouse motion studios, Antibody, Elastic, and Imaginary Forces (aka the reigning royal trio of TV title design) dominated the Outstanding Main Title Design category at the 2024 Emmy nominations announced July 17. [Watch]
London-based director/music producer Emma Catnip just dropped her latest motion experiment, a short film/music video called Bloom she describes as part of her “ongoing exploration of how AI can complement human creativity in animation.” [Watch]
