Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
The Stash Permanent Collection continues to expand with STASH 143 adding another 31 outstanding motion projects plus behind the scenes features and exclusive interviews. Check the two-minute preview to see the new inductees. [Watch]
The Adult Swim Smalls series of short films continue to generate smiles with off-kilter motion experiments like this low-key comic treat from director/animator Michael Marczewski in London. [Watch]
Instead of cutting together the usual demo reel, French motion house Studio River introduced themselves as sponsors of the most recent Motion Plus Design event in Paris with this refreshing mock manifesto. [Watch]
Slovenian digital artist Twistedpoly (aka Nejc Polovsak) teams with LA composer and sound designer White Noise Lab for his latest personal CG project, a taut and vivid expedition into the surreal called “Flow”. [Watch]
A high point in director Cyrille Smaha’s ongoing series of brand films for French fashion house Chanel, episode 27 further expands the mystique of company founder Coco Chanel with a dizzying flurry of celebrity and collage. [Watch]
The 2020 Brazilian League of Legends Championship finals opened with director Jan Xavier and the crew at São Paulo animation studio Histeria! turning their hometown into a giant LoL match crammed with street art, VFX, and typography. [Watch]
Glasgow design and motion studio Playdead stepped into the limelight at the 2020 Scottish Design Awards last week, winning the Grand Prix as well as designing this opening sequence for the event’s awards night. [Watch]
The VFX crew at Untold in London, who brought you this fire-sneezing dragon and this very calm bull, pack the digital muscle onto the latest comedy epic for European DIY chain Hornbach, directed by Tom Kuntz thru Heimat Berlin. [Watch]
WIZZ stop-motion specialist Victor Hagelin, who graced the cover of Stash 131 with his fabulous “Captain 3D” short, is back with more frame-by-frame fun in this new spot for travel site Expedia thru agency TeamOne LA. [Watch]
Chosen as the UK City of Culture for 2021, Coventry celebrates its diverse history of innovation in industry, music, art, and activism with this promo from director/animator Ewan Jones Morris and the motion design team at Friends Electric. [Watch]
After a COVID-induced delay, the 2020 College football season roared back onto ESPN last week, wrapped in a high-octane branding and promo package from the design and animation crew at Elastic. [Watch]
Somesuch director Daniel Wolfe, editor Paul Watts, and The Mill VFX team craft the riveting origin story of Maurice Ashley, a chess-obsessed Brooklyn kid who became the game’s first black grandmaster. [Watch]
Nexus director Robertino Zambrano applies his signature illustrative style to footage of Kansas City Chiefs superstar QB Patrick Mahomes to elevate this spot for local Missouri Credit Union CommunityAmerica. [Watch]
The latest passion project from the master storytellers at Dress Code illustrates both the loneliness and exhilaration experienced by renowned goalkeeper Robert Primrose Wilson while starring for Arsenal from 1963-1973. [Watch]
