Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
A recent graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, Daniel Stankler applies his frame by frame technique and bold animation style to explore the love/sex dichotomy in modern relationships for The School Of Life. [Watch]
A gingerbread fairy tale goes wonderfully sideways in this breakout trailer for the latest release of Magic: The Gathering trading cards created by Axis Studios and crammed full of obsessive details and meticulous lighting. [Watch]
Director/writer Jamaal Bradley and co-writer/lead story artist Michael Yates based this emotional CG short about two brothers and their “battle over the future of the family… and the fate of generations” on true events. [Watch]
Designed and animated by 3D artist Lucas Camargo (aka UntitledArmy), FCB Brasil’s new campaign for the 2019 Brazilian Creative Club Festival urges ad folk to avoid comfortable solutions in the creative process. [Watch]
Young French directing collective MegaComputeur specialize in mining comedy from the depths of human weakness and translating it into CG mayhem. Happily, their new personal project “Plaisir Sucré” continues that tradition. [Watch]
The first edition of the OFFF festival in Kyiv, Ukraine opened in grand style last Friday with this formidable CG stunner full of enigmatic space travel visuals from hometown motion duo Eugene Pylinsky and Eugene Lekh. [Watch]
Director/animator Elyse Kelly’s latest visual story for The Atlantic wraps the issue of how social media companies handle censorship and free speech in a wonderfully fluid and allegorical style. [Watch]
London 3D artist and motion designer Peter Tomaszewicz follows up his striking 2018 film “Silent Aesthetics” with a more vibrant collaboration called “The Woven Exhibitionist” with designer Martina Spetlova at sustainable fashion brand MWoven. [Watch]
The animation directing team Illogic broke wide in 2017 with their extraordinary (and Oscar-nominated) CG grad film “Garden Party.” Their follow up project “Maestro” expands the cast beyond amphibians but retains all the craft and careful detail of their debut. [Watch]
Spanish animator/illustrator Cristóbal Vila uncovers the intricate beauty of life by dissecting geometric concepts including polygonal tessellation, the golden angle, Islamic tiling, and the four nitrogenous bases of DNA. [Watch]
Japanese director/animator Hideki Inaba, who jumped onto the Stash radar back in 2015 with this breakout piece, returns with a new video showcasing his signature brand of hypnotic CG complexity called “Tape” for Swedish duo Canigou. [Watch]
Thanks to the scale and emotion of this Toyota spot from director Rune Milton (with VFX by Copenhagen’s TGBVFX and Mikael Balle VFX), UK teen Lilly Rice’s quest to boost the profile of WCMX (wheelchair motor cross) just leaped into the mainstream. [Watch]
The all-Dutch team of photographer Rein Janssen, special effects artist Erik Voors, and copywriter Pieter van den Heuvel pool their talents for this Greenpeace spot – a stark and poetic ode to our dwindling love for fossil fuels. [Watch]
The first third of this music video by director Ian Pons Jewell (for UK musician/comedian Beardyman) is good fun but then at the 1:40 mark – thanks to the VFX crew at ETC – it turns into one of the most intense Pinocchio parodies of all time. [Watch]
