Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
Ruffmercy, the UK animator/director (and Stash regular) best known for his music video work, lets loose with a magnum opus called “’88,” a gloriously chaotic 11-minute film made for The Barbican’s Jean-Michel Basquiat retrospective in London. [Watch]
A very fresh visual treatment for a motorsports broadcast promo here from Tokyo 3D masters Onesal for coverage of the World Rally Championship 2018 on the Japanese channel J Sports. [Watch]
Grab a look at the preview for STASH 134 , the brilliant new addition to The Stash Permanent Collection – the unrivalled online library of motion design for advertising, music videos, broadcast and title design, brand films, game cinematics, and short films. [Watch]
Taiwanese motion graphic designer and SCAD graduate student Celia Hsu contemplates the effects of environment on our emotions in her introspective yet dynamic animated short film “Perception.” [Watch]
Nate Sherman and Nick Vokey, the creative duo behind “Fired on Mars” (one of my favorite animated shorts of the decade) are back with another fabulous look at social norms/weirdness in the lowkey black comedy “Wet City.” [Watch]
Elastic creative directors Lisa Bolan and Nadia Tzuo opened Sony Pictures’ “Girl in the Spider’s Web” with inky, sinister CG to create “metaphor and abstract visual language to hint at the main character’s untold history.” [Watch]
Fourteen Montréal motion designers indulge their “desire to play together instead of just working together” with this kinetic and freeflowing celebration of the world of pinball. [Watch]
In their latest adventure merging in-house musical and visual delights, Kelly Meador and Daniel Elwing (aka Impactist) explore the existential aspects of pizza and its rightful place in the universe. [Watch]
Shanghai director/designer Somei Sun gathers nine artists to create dynamic and disparate logo treatments for VIVO’s powerful new gaming-centric iQOO mobile phone. [Watch]
Brooklyn designer/animator Caresse Haaser brings a soft illustrative touch to this visual essay about the nature and direction of today’s online ecosystem written, voiced, and art directed by Alexis Lloyd at Automattic Design. [Watch]
In celebration of World Book Day on March 7, 2019, London Studio WeCanMake teams with acclaimed UK author/illustrator Rob Biddulph to create a quirky and charming series of animated bookmark characters. [Watch]
Director Doseok Park and the crew at Alfred Imageworks in Seoul, South Korea, cook up a cavity-inducing, Disney musical-inspired CG promo for Giant Interactive’s mobile gaming phenomenon Battle of Balls. [Watch]
Buenos Aires motion house Buda round up two dozen friends from across South America for a joyous tribute to the local tradition of drinking and sharing a bitter tea made from the yerba mate plant. [Watch]
Italian director, animator, and puppet maker Gianluca Maruotti brings his talent for peculiar and lovable characters to this meticulous stop-motion video for the track “Free to Roam” from Massimo Giangrande’s new album Beauty at Closing Time. [Watch]
