Good Times Signs Director Ayse Altinok for US Representation
November 12, 2024
Madrid architectural animation studio Beauty And The Bit channel their talents for creating seductive structures and environments into their first personal narrative film, a stark and atmospheric work called “Landmark.” [Watch]
London tech startup Flying Screens lets director/innovator GMUNK loose with their new drone screens to produce this piece of performance art shot by James Medcraft called “Lucid” featuring UK dancer ZAKIYA. [Watch]
FITC’s Camp 2018 event launched today in the wilds of Calgary with these delicious/hilarious 2D animated titles from ECD Ryan Honey and the Buck crew all powered by the musical talents of Steve Day, Marc Steinberg, and Andy Lyon. [Watch]
The in-house animated short films program at London’s Blue Zoo studio continues to push staff in new directions. The latest example is “Mamoon,” an experiment in storytelling with physically projected CG animation. [Watch]
Written and directed by CD Sean McClintock, Hue&Cry’s upcoming animated short follows an overworked, unfulfilled salesman named Floyd Waters whose life unravels when his wife leaves him to join a Lepidoptera cult. [Watch]
Paris art director and motion designer Matthieu Braccini pays his respects to M.C. Escher and the British father/son team of Lionel and Roger Penrose by extending their optical paradoxes into playful 3D animation. [Watch]
“Otto,” the lovely new animated short from Oscar-nominated Dutch trio Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins, and Marieke Blaauw is a great way to end your Friday (or any day, really). [Watch]
Rousing, heartwarming, and nostalgic all in one go, this brilliant take on Queen’s 1975 operatic hit “Bohemian Rhapsody” finds Blink director Dougal Wilson and the MPC VFX crew together again and bound for awards glory. [Watch]
Join irrepressible French director Victor Haegelin as he reveals the stop-motion process and unlikely origin behind “Captain 3D,” his superhero adventure starring a girl, a monster, and a guy with no superpowers at all. [Watch]
French electronic producer/artist Rone (aka Erwan Castex) keeps it all in the family on the video for the title track from his new album “Mirapolis,” collaborating with his sister director/illustrator/designer Aurélie Castex. [Watch]
If you’ve experienced any side of the single-parent equation (as a child or parent), this quiet short film from London animator/illustrator Jade Evans will certainly resonate and possibly spring a tear or two. [Watch]
Spanish director Ernest Desumbila is back, turning his talent for in-your-face visuals to a dreamier tone in this gauzy music video for LSD (Labrinth, Sia, Diplo) with production and VFX by Sauvage.TV in Barcelona. [Watch]
Kim Gryun, a designer/animator at GIANTSTEP in Seoul, South Korea, responded to the studio’s latest in-house DesignRelay motion study group theme of “H.R. Giger” with this carefully lit and richly detailed take on “Alien.” [Watch]
Tokyo CG artist and visual programmer Nobutaka Kitahara creates a fascinating alien world of floating geometric structures in “Flow,” his captivating 60-second 3D short that I wish was many times longer. [Watch]
