Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
The Mill Directors, Lisha Tan and David Lawson return to the helm for the latest Apex Legends trailer following a series of films for the Respawn franchise including spectacular work for the original launch and season two. [Watch]
Salomon Ligthelm, a self-taught filmmaker signed to Stink, conjures a dreamlike escape punctuated by glitches of chaos for Icelandic electro three-piece aYia with the ominous VFX and post handled by Artjail in NYC. [Watch]
Director and CG designer Kouhei Nakama extends 3D techniques he pioneered in his delightful 2017 breakout film “Makin’ Moves” for the winter collection of Japanese fashion brand Tiger Magic Bottle. [Watch]
The existential struggles of a stop-motion puppet come to life with visceral force in this Kafka-esque short film by director/screenwriter Marco Jemolo and his team who taught themselves the art of animation as they went. [Watch]
Váscolo in Buenos Aires: “We’re extremely happy to share with you the new in-house project we have been toiling on for the past three years! ‘The Fall’ comes to life as a chimera, a drop dream that lets your imagination go wild.” [Watch]
Trapped in pandemic lockdown, Belgian creative director, motion designer, and 3D artist Fabian Aerts makes fine use of his time and talents with a dramatic title sequence for an imagined TV series “We Were Young.” [Watch]
The new multiplayer online combat video game Bleeding Edge launched with the help of this hyperactive trailer, part of a suite of campaign assets delivered by London motion studio Dazzle Ship for UK developer Ninja Theory and Microsoft. [Watch]
Veteran director Ben Craig and the crew at Glasgow-based Braw Production just wrapped this timely, intimate, and full-CG short film centered on an elderly man remembering the simple things he misses about his lost home on Earth. [Watch]
In 2018 Stash published a delightfully excentric game trailer for a 2D puzzle-adventure called Flipping Filip. The hand-crafted video was our first sighting of director/animator Mehdi Alibeygi who just released this new personal film called “No.7”. [Watch]
Words like sublime and masterful come to mind when I watch Gianluca Maruotti’s stop motion work, and this uplifting new music video for Australian singer-songwriter Xavier Rudd just serves to further reinforce those adjectives. [Watch]
Stockholm 3D animation specialists Milford just released their first venture into longer-form content, a rollicking inhouse film about the misadventures of “An Ordinary Seal”, written and directed by animation supervisor Antonio Deiana. [Watch]
The simplest of shapes interact and multiply into a complex and dynamic macro view of how humans spread a virus in this passion project by Miami-based director/animator Carlos Rivero and composer/sound designer Ivette Carmona. [Watch]
The Istanbul team of director/designer Ethem Cem and motion designer/art director Ugur Baltepe sharpen an ethereal, timeless tone into a sinister edge in these titles crafted in CG for the eight-part detective thriller “Alef”. [Watch]
Just before Christmas in 2012, London artist/animator Steve Cutts released “Man”, an ironically jaunty short film about the Anthropocene apocalypse in all its dark and ridiculous glory. [Watch]
