Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
The CNN Motion crew illuminates the surprising and socially complex 5,000-year history of red-colored lips in this beautifully illustrated explainer with art direction by Ignacio Osorio and Alexander Sears. [Watch]
Inspired by video artist Nam Jun Paik’s timeless installation “TV Buddha”, the Solid VFX crew in Seoul, South Korea create an atmospheric CG future populated with a solitary and enigmatic figure. [Watch]
Check the avalanche of surreal CG nonsense going on in the new short film from Peter Tomaszewicz and Christiana Perdiou called “The Shrewd Awakening” which they describe as “vivid, flirtatious, electric, and inconceivable.” [Watch]
After giving us a peek at his comedic chops with a Max Headroom-inspired character in 2013’s “Rap God”, Eminem drops the gloves in this new video for “Godzilla ft. Juice WRLD” playing the full-on fool and multiple characters. [Watch]
The 2020 edition of the TOCA ME Design Conference opened in Munich this month with these striking and thoughtful titles crafted by hometown design and animation studio Uber Eck. [Watch]
The disarmingly stripped-down style and off-kilter text-to-speech performances in director/animator Rory Waudby-Tolley’s animated short “Powerwash (I Love You)” keep you unprepared for the film’s deeper truths and hopeful ending. [Watch]
The dense, detailed, and somewhat delirious style of director/animator/designer Alice Saey (first seen in her promo for Shaking Godspeed’s “She’s Young”) provides a mesmerizing backdrop in this latest work for Jo Goes Hunting. [Watch]
Witness the seamless convergence of comedy and VFX in this new three-spot campaign starring disappointed superheroes for UK insurance provider Direct Line via Hungry Man director Brian Buckley and The Mill VFX crew. [Watch]
Founder/ECD Andrew Jones at FutureDeluxe in London describes FuturePlay, the studio’s new in-house exploratory project, as a “study of procedural systems designed to artistically reinterpret external spatial and visual inputs.” [Watch]
Montréal creative Rémi Vincent gathered 17 animators and designers from across the city to collaborate on this dynamic and ultra-wide motion piece originally projected on a wall during the 2019 MAPP Montréal event. [Watch]
Elastic creative director Jeff Han tells Stash how chess became the metaphor for the strategic battle between post-war Nazis and Al Pacino’s team of “Hunters” in the titles of Amazon’s new original series. [Watch]
Variations on the rounded red square of Huawei’s AppGallery logo act as the narrative thread binding together the disparate vignettes of this vigorous spot for the company’s official app distribution platform with design and VFX by The-Artery NY. [Watch]
The team at NotReal in Buenos Aires fuse their typographic, motion, and live-action production skills into a wonderfully kinetic, compact, and lighthearted brand film complete with making-of video. [Watch]
Seattle director/CG artist Richard Lord, who crafted one of our favorite CG music videos of all time for Alessandro Parisi in 2019, creates a kooky/cool new breed of automated alien life in this promo for Plus Device called “Our Pleasures” [Watch]
