Meanwhile, back in The Amazing World of Gumball on Cartoon Network, New York 3D artist Julian Glander bestows his signature CG whimsy to this crazed sequence from a season six episode called “The Transformation.” [Watch]
Brooklyn studio MoSoMoS combine their many animation/production talents (including stop motion and motion control) into a delightful promo for NBC’s summer competition series called “Making it” starring Nick Offerman and Amy Poehler. [Watch]
Have a look at how the Mill Design and Emerging Technology teams blurred the borders of motion graphics and design by generating a live title sequence during the 2018 AICP Next Awards. [Watch]
The hard news about demo reels is very few actually accomplish their goal of triggering emotion in viewers. Over the last 14 years Stash has featured only a handful of reels but we believe this new one from LA studio STATE is worth your time. [Watch]
Steve Viola, SVP of Design at FX Networks: “For the launch of our Sons of Anarchy spin-off, Mayans MC, we created a piece introducing the cultural tones of the series while bringing back the intensity and the rawness of Sons of Anarchy. [Watch]
Mill+ directors Aidan Gibbons and Ergin Kuke help UK luxury performance car maker Bentley celebrate its 100th anniversary with a grand look at the company’s history of “innovation, achievement and craftsmanship.” [Watch]
From Buck: “How can you say no to working with 36 x (2560 x 1800) = 165,888,000 pixels of fun?? Teaming up with our friends at Google, we had a blast wrangling pixels for this installation. [Watch]
SCAD Motion Media student Aishwarya Sadasivan describes her animated allegory “Cayona” as “a personal dedication to the wonderful immigrants who have found their happy kingdom – America.” [Watch]
The crew at Gentleman Scholar pay tribute to the 2018 World Cup with this animated in-house project dedicated to “not just the event itself, but also to the unifying nature of this sport in general.” [Watch]
Vasil Hnatiuk, an American designer/director based in Vietnam, explores his fascination with the potential of synthetic biology in this ambitious scifi-flavored personal project. [Watch]
UK director Oscar Hudson’s quest for completely fresh ways to capture your attention continues with this left field music video called “Holy Ghost” for Scottish trio Young Fathers – shot with an ultra long range military grade thermal surveillance camera. [Watch]
Los Angeles animator Steve Smith extends the vibrant and surreal 3D style he’s used in broadcast work for Adult Swim and MTV into a full three and a half minutes of engaging whimsy for the single “Misheard” by LA trio Moaning. [Watch]
A novel and charming stop-motion project designed to raise awareness of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean – created by Studio Flox in Stuttgart, Germany for Humany Tee Clothing and NGO Jugend Rettet e.V. [Watch]
Following his excellent dissection of the relationship between existentialists Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, director/animator Andrew Khosravani takes on the fraught dynamics of psychoanalytic pioneers Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. [Watch]