Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
Director Nina Gantz and the Blinkink crew team with acclaimed puppeteer Josie Corben (Isle of Dogs) on this dreamlike stop-motion fantasy to launch a new range of fashion and accessories from Spanish luxury brand LOEWE. [Watch]
After a stellar festival run (150 selections and 46 awards), directors Leo Brunel, Loris Cavalier, Camille Jalabert, and Oscar Malet unveil their CG comedy about a back-country ski rescue gone very, very wrong. [Watch]
“It was a great experience thinking about where not to use VFX,” says Framestore VFX super Jordi Bares about this breakout work for The Wall Street Journal created on a short timeline with MJZ director Juan Cabral thru The&Partnership. [Watch]
If you’re a fan of code-driven visuals then you know about director Raven Kwok and his break out work for Max Cooper’s “Rule 110” music video – which means you’ll want to watch his latest, a twisty and hypnotic bit of minimalist maximalism. [Watch]
UK VFX powerhouse Electric Theatre Collective creates a cast of toys and tchotchkes revealing the hard truth about a family’s home in IKEA’s first Christmas spot courtesy of MJZ director Tom Kuntz and Mother London. [Watch]
Tendril’s elegant and tactile work for Microsoft continues with this film highlighting features of the new UI for Yammer, the company’s enterprise social networking service for communication within organizations. [Watch]
LA’s Elastic studio continues their recent winning streak in the title design major leagues with a fresh direction to open “The Morning Show”, the flagship production on Apple’s new TV+ streaming service. [Watch]
Mateusz Kozlowski, an animation artist/designer in Gdansk, Poland, creates an appropriately surreal and surprisingly emotional CG dream for a track by Polish electronic artist New Rome (aka Tomasz Bednarczyk). [Watch]
Two years in the making, Hue&Cry’s six-minute passion project “Into The Flame” tracks a strange episode involving a salesman named Floyd and the “surreal and epic chase driving him far from home and potentially out of his mind.” [Watch]
Veteran filmmaker/animator Carlos Baena (whose extensive feature credits include Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, and Toy Story 3) based this personal short film on struggles with a dark emotional situation in his own life. [Watch]
Season two of Amazon’s Jack Ryan series premiered November 1 with these main titles, carefully designed to “become a portrait of the main character” by creative director Karin Fong and the Imaginary Forces design crew. [Watch]
Hamlet directors The Sacred Egg (aka Alex Mavor and Ed Kaye) team with the Shanghai crews of MPC and Wieden+Kennedy to create brain-enhanced students and their dreamlike training monastery for HP’s Omen gaming computers. [Watch]
New York studio Art Camp and director Saad Moosajee, who made waves this year with the Spotify-sponsored music video for Mitski “A Pearl”, conjure another blend of 3D and hand-crafted 2D in this moody and magical work for Thom Yorke. [Watch]
Tendril says their new spec project, a 50-second CG tribute to classic anime movies, “was born out of our love for game cinematics and our desire to showcase our strength in character animation.” [Watch]
