Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
Dexton Deboree’s new documentary exploring the history of the Nike Air Jordan 1, called “Unbanned – the Legend of AJ1,” opens with this magnetic sequence from Los York partner and the global creative director Shane Griffin. [Watch]
Munich 3D masters Aixsponza mine classical sculpture motifs for inspiration in their latest promo created direct for Nike Global Football and their Mercurial and Phantom Series boots. [Watch]
German director and digital artist Tobias Gremmler expands on his experimental CG motion capture work with a transcendent interpretation of Björk’s body and face for “Tabula Rasa,” a track off her 2017 release Utopia. [Watch]
Back in 2013, Barcelona VFX house Big Lazy Robot released a dystopian CG jaw-dropper called “Keloid.” Their new film, “The Host of the Heavens,” retains all the merciless technology of that effort while ramping up the sci-fi action. [Watch]
Oscar-nominated stop-motion maven PES (aka Adam Pesapane) uses actual discarded ocean plastic to build the unlucky fish at the center of this spot for Corona and conservation group Parley thru Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam. [Watch]
Alberto Mielgo (aka Pinkman), who recently directed the spectacular “Witness” episode of Love, Sex, and Robots on Netflix, burst onto the Stash radar back in 2010 with three short films and ended up on the cover of Stash 66. [Watch]
The animation crew at The Line in East London help director Wesley Louis explore his family’s Caribbean roots in a rollicking sci-fi adventure centered on Connie, a young British girl, and a mysterious giant robot. [Watch]
Join Tokyo filmmaker Hiroshi Kondo as he transforms the scooter stampedes of Taipei into a hypnotic journey into the fluid energy and hidden patterns of modern life in Taiwan. [Watch]
Takashi Murakami, the multidisciplinary artist best known for his superflat work, casts American singer/songwriter and teen phenom Billie Eilish as an anime majokko (magical girl/princess) in “You Should See Me in a Crown.” [Watch]
Director Gabriel Nobrega and the Lobo crew conjure a mix of stop-motion, miniature sets, and CG to flip a fairytale into a riches-to-rags romp while highlighting benefits of the backup camera on the Vauxhall Astra. [Watch]
Euro fashion label GUNEE takes the road less traveled by avoiding product shots in this latest video for their men’s wear line directed and animated by Thomas Gugel, a freelance designer and digital artist based in Cologne, Germany. [Watch]
Mill+ artist Maxim Goudin packs plenty of style and intrigue into “Ghost Writer Sequence #1,” a personal project he describes as a “proof of concept of some sort. Hopefully a teaser to something more interesting.” [Watch]
CG iconoclast Mike Winkelmann (aka Beeple) harnesses the talents of a group of 3D and 2D friends to showcase the stellar line up at the FITC Toronto 2019 conference with this fun and frenzied sequence. [Watch]
The 2019 edition of the venerable OFFF Barcelona conference opened with this brooding meditation on the creative process by the omni-talented San Francisco director, designer, and concept artist Chris Bjerre [Watch]
