Good Times Signs Director Ayse Altinok for US Representation
November 12, 2024
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]
Russian animation studio Petrick leans into the task of reimagining Moscow’s coat of arms by inviting fellow artists and animators to have fun with the dragon-slayer imagery which traces back 1,000 years to the founding of the city. [Watch]
The Australian Chamber Orchestra’s 2020 Season takes dramatic shape in six striking CG films set to music hand-picked by ACO musicians and created by Substance in Sydney in concert with an international cast of design directors. [Watch]
Berlin-based Taiwanese director/animator Cheng-Hsu Chung lets loose with an eruption of quasi-NSFW animation for Sacramento band !!! (Chk Chk Chk) that one YouTube commenter refers to as an “Adventure Time porn parody if I were on acid.” [Watch]
Generating excitement and anticipation for fans year after year is job one for sports networks and sometimes that requires sheer scale and ambition, like say where ESPN Creative Services and Troika went with this re-brand for SEC Network. [Watch]
Blinkink directing duo Stevie Gee & Essy May channel the spirit of golden-age animation god Tex Avery to punch this campaign for “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon” out of the crowded videogame market by layering crazed 2D over gameplay footage. [Watch]
Time to celebrate Labor Day with a bottle of wine and some light-hearted mayhem courtesy of directors Giulia Martinelli, Marta Gennari, and their graduation film “Merlot” created at the CSC National Film School in Turin, Italy. [Watch]
The Amazon Original series “Carnival Row” premiered August 30th on a sinister note thanks to these opening titles crafted by CD Lisa Bolan and the Elastic crew to anticipate the show’s rich and detailed mix of fantasy, dystopia, and mystery. [Watch]
Based on the work of Canadian comic artist Dave Cooper and directed by Oslo 3D master Rune Spaans, The Absence of Eddy Table follows a wide-eyed character as he explores “an exotic world glistening with phallic flowers and libidinous danger.” [Watch]
If you’ve suffered through rude, thoughtless, or simply ill-informed client comments about your work you’ll appreciate this manic take by the LOBO/Vetor Zero crew for the Brazilian Creative Club’s annual festival and awards. [Watch]
In his third video for UK band The 1975, Partizan director Warren Fu channels a new kind of music apocalypse by packaging the boys inside an LED cube of raging media designed by the band’s creative director Ben Ditto. [Watch]
Inspired by what she describes as Berlin’s DIY dystopian playgrounds, director/animator Kaho Yoshida conjures a very sweet mini-film combining stop-motion, 2D animation, and the city’s “prettiest trash.” [Watch]
The indigenous pride and personal insights of New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok, What We Do in the Shadows) elevate this film by Polyester Studio for The Toronto International Film Festival’s new director’s prize. [Watch]
Creative director Jorge R. Canedo E. and Vancouver motion studio Ordinary Folk create visual poetry from a script by writer/CD Julie Rybarczyk to promo Webflow’s upcoming conference about the future of software development. [Watch]
