Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
Creative director Jarratt Moody and the oddfellows design and animation crew wrap this explainer for online wholesale marketplace Faire in a soft, minimal, and ultimately welcoming illustration style. [Watch]
Darcy Prendergast, founder/director at prodco Oh Yeah Wow in the Melbourne, Australia says he made “Tomorrow’s On Fire” as a way of trying to process the devastating bushfire crisis currently ravaging his country. [Watch]
Creative director Karin Fong follows stylistically diverse work for “Jack Ryan” on Amazon and “Tell Me a Story” on CBS All Access with these ominous/intriguing titles for the Apple TV+ series “See” which finds humans in a future without their sense of sight. [Watch]
Hot on the heels of their multi-technique work for Gogoro scooters, Taipei studio MixCode zags style-wise to deliver a jolt of hand-drawn dynamics highlighting the benefits of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile game experience. [Watch]
A sweet and quirky animated short about friendship and confronting your anger issues sounds like the perfect way to kick-off what’s looking to be a very unsettling year on many fronts. [Watch]
Agile Films director Simon Willows and the London prodco’s animation/VFX sibling Agile Studios help position Audible as the calmer alternative to mindless scrolling in this kinetic :30 thru London agency Fold7. [Watch]
After tackling screen zombies and consumerism, London artist/animator Steve Cutts turns his talents for rendering modern dilemmas in hyper-detail toward human-induced apocalypse in this devastating music video for Melbourne musician Wantaways. [Watch]
Director Fx Goby and the Nexus crew in London mark the end of production for the VW Beetle with an emotional multi-generation epic rotoscoped by hand and starring Ferdinand Porsche’s original 1938 design. [Watch]
The Ambassadors’ crew in Amsterdam handled the character design, VFX, post, audio and music in this latest heartwarmer for Staatsloterij, the Netherlands’ largest lottery known for its life-changing New Year’s Eve jackpots. [Watch]
The popularity of what we might call CG magic realism continued to expand in 2019 as more creators and clients embraced the power of hyper-real 3D to transport viewers to surreal and abstract worlds with spellbinding clarity. [Watch]
The creative challenge and promise of the self-imposed brief make the short film a treasured opportunity for both professionals taking a break from client work and students trying to launch careers with the perfect graduation project. [Watch]
If you wade deep enough into the mind-numbing tide of the music video genre, you will eventually find passionate, talented, and cynicism-free people producing innovative films for interesting musicians, cool events, and good causes. [Watch]
Longer-form marketing films unhampered by the limits of broadcast TV allow for deeper narratives which in turn often inspire forceful and innovative visuals. Here are eight brand films from 2019 we believe live up to that promise. [Watch]
The creative freedom that comes with creating trailers and titles for design conferences have established these sequences as the genre of choice for visually ambitious directors. Here are seven that kept our optic nerves tingling in 2019. [Watch]
