Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
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]
In their latest round of work for The Paramount Channel, Airplan Studio in Budapest, Hungary, unites films from various genres into a consistent campaign with a look reminiscent of airbrushed and serigraph movie posters. [Watch]
An allegory about the dangers of following your deepest instincts, “Sous la Glace” (Under the Ice), a CG short film by six students at École des Nouvelles Images comes wrapped in the most sublime digital cinematography we’ve seen this year. [Watch]
