Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
Larian Studios’ launch of the latest take on the Dungeons & Dragons RPG franchise Baldur’s Gate includes this formidable opening sequence animated by Unit Image with obvious passion, and given the scale of action and set pieces, unlimited ambition. [Watch]
After six years in the biz, Barcelona animation/illustration prodco Drasik Studio just dropped their first personal project, a visceral and manic frame-by-frame 2D experiment called “Bend Reality”. [Watch]
Wagamama, the UK-based restaurant chain serving pan-Asian food based on Japanese cuisine, takes their first leap into animated ads with this enchanting and carefully crafted spot directed by Mads Broni at Passion Animation thru MullenLowe. [Watch]
Turns out one in four disabled people in the UK say negative attitudes from other passengers prevent them from using public transport so agency VMLY&R brought in Nexus directors Smith & Foulkes to help change a few minds. [Watch]
The venerable State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow sets its sights on attracting children and teens with this vibrant and mischievous promo by hometown studio Petrick for an exhibition on the history of Russian fairy tales. [Watch]
In 2018, Wieden+Kennedy London and Academy director Ian Pons Jewell convinced the world “Phones Are Good” and now they’ve dialed up the tongue-in-cheek quotient for Three’s 5G service with layers of unrelenting VFX from The Mill crew. [Watch]
The all-London team of agency Superunion and motion studio Found combine dance, pyrotechnics, and motion capture into a spectacular campaign for the London Symphony Orchestra’s 2020/21 season. [Watch]
Inspired by the fantastical work of Shanghai artist Jie Ma, Korean motion designer Yonghoon Jeong (aka Samhwagoon) creates a series of striking dream-state vignettes in this personal film he calls Retrospection. [Watch]
This latest collaboration between filmmaker Kevin McGloughlin and musician/DJ Max Cooper is a hypnotic and handmade music video from ‘Yearning for the Infinite’, Cooper’s “audio/visual rendering of our obsession with the unobtainable.” [Watch]
Inspired by the custom crystal engravings based on facial scans of tourists and their pets, director Alex Robinson at London design/animation studio This Thing Of Ours set out to see if the technique could be used for filmmaking. [Watch]
Somesuch director Steve Rogers and London VFX force Time Based Arts stir up a world of anger and mayhem to frame Coca-Cola’s message of empathy and listening to others delivered by actor/director Natasha Lyonne. [Watch]
Tokyo CG boundary-pushers Onesal just released their newest self-initiated project they describe as “an exploration of tactile textures in nature” and an attempt to visually explain the phenomenon of ASMR. [Watch]
The all-Swedish team of VFX house Swiss, directing collective StyleWar, and agency Forsman & Bodenfors bring the pain of slow and stuttering internet to glitchy, pixelized life in this spot for Scandinavian telco Telia. [Watch]
Director Andrei Brovcenco and the crew at Bucharest studio Framebreed take time off from their usual diet of post work for commercials and film for a quick jab at certain world leaders in this all-CG music video parody called “Bad History – Putin”. [Watch]
