Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
Five student directors from Taiwan, Hong Kong, France, and Croatia craft a sweet and emotional tale of a young boy dealing with the loss of his grandfather in the thesis film for their Masters program at French animation school Gobelins. [Watch]
In the follow-up to their extraordinary 2016 “Wide Open” music video for The Chemical Brothers, Outsider directors Dom&Nic and The Mill VFX crew revisit the AI/robot theme but elevate the numbers and energy. [Watch]
From Foreign Fauna in Minneapolis: “When we started Foreign Fauna, our dream was to be able to use our love of animation to tell stories that matter, stories with empathy. [Watch]
The worlds created by Suspenders director Kohei Yoshino take us to extraordinary places and this new station ID titled “Schoolyard” for Japanese music television channel Space Shower TV is no exception. [Watch]
Standout new brand film from Mighty Nice directors Darren Price and Simon Robson to launch the reMarkable tablet, a device that offers a paper-like experience for reading, writing and sketching. [Watch]
Motion designer and 3D artist Jonathan Lindgren in London: “In the last days of 2017, I was invited to collaborate with Sennep in London on their new iOS game Alphaputt. The idea was to create a crazy golf game mixed with typography. [Watch]
Set for release on Dec 13, 2018, Nomada Studio’s Gris, based on designs by Barcelona artist/illustrator Conrad Roset is one of the most visually intriguing 2D video games of the past five years. [Watch]
Virtual companionship comes at a high price in this intense and prescient glimpse into a future where pharmacologically induced friends are the norm – created by five recent animation graduates at GOBELINS in Paris. [Watch]
A mischievous Rubik’s Cube with an urgent need to be solved brightens the day of a young woman in “Scrambled,” a CG short written and directed by Bastiaan Schravendeel at Dutch 3D character animation studio Polder.
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Buenos Aires design boutique molistudio bring all their 3D (and sound design) talents to bear on this mesmerizing in-house art film full of intricate and whimsical sculptures they call “Useful Machines.” [Watch]
The first real tear-streamer of the 2018 holiday ad season, Macy’s “Space Station” combines the humanist touch of Epoch Films director Martin De Thurah with cinematic space shots and zero gravity VFX from rising NYC studio Blacksmith. [Watch]
Strong design and illustration from Beakus director Amaël Isnard elevates this explainer for the Influence Film Club, an online platform based in Sweden inspiring “more people to watch documentary films and have meaningful conversations about them.” [Watch]
Rising UK animation and illustration duo Uncle Ginger (aka Hugh Cowling and Owen Gent) bring a gentle, hand-drawn minimalism to this music video for “The Last Day” by British singer-songwriter Luke Sital-Singh. [Watch]
The UNHIDE digital design conference opened this week in São Paulo, Brazil with these spectacular panoramic titles entitled “The Dream of Ink” by director Rafael Vallaperde and Lightfarm Studios in Rio de Janeiro. [Watch]
