Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
The crew at Taipei motion graphics studio Bito hangs a manic mash up of animation styles on a track by Taiwanese rapper Shen Yi to mark the 100th anniversary of multinational industrial powerhouse Tatung. [Watch]
Matthias Zabiegly, lead 3D and VFX super at Aixsponza in Munich, Germany: “It’s been quite a challenging project as Nike was very specific when it came to the composition process of their high tech Flyleather material. [Watch]
Slovakian animator David Stumpf created “Cowboyland,” his hand-animated ode to the randomness of justice in the American Wild West, as his bachelor film during his studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. [Watch]
On May 2, the Pictoplasma Festival returns to Berlin to celebrate the art and craft of character design – an electric and eclectic gathering of over 700 artists, illustrators, filmmakers, plus game, graphic, and product designers. [Watch]
With a nod to Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, directing duo Kylie Matulick & Todd Mueller and the Psyop crew team with Sun Creature Studio in Copenhagen to transform Oregon into a land of fantasy/adventure. [Watch]
The PromaxBDA Europe 2018 conference opened in Rome yesterday with this lighthearted collision of animation, stop motion and live action created by Milan design studio Alkanoids. [Watch]
London designer/art director Dan Hoopert creates an austere yet poetic CG brand film featuring the Palissade seating collection designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Danish furniture and housewares company HAY. [Watch]
Nexus directors Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes first appeared in Stash in issue 2, way back in October 2004. Since then we’ve inducted 20 projects by the London duo into the Stash Permanent Collection and placed four of those on the cover. [Watch]
UK director/animator Hannah Jacobs’ lends a childlike illustrative whimsy to the delicate and highly personal track “Secret for the Mad” by English singer-songwriter, author, and YouTuber Dorothy Miranda “Dodie” Clark. [Watch]
“Smart Matter,” the first in the Hype Cycle series of futurist films coming from UK digital art and design studio Universal Everything, explores “human-machine collaboration through performance and emerging technologies.” [Watch]
Started as a Facebook group, Punanimation has since evolved into “a collective of equality-driven ladies aiming to support, connect and share women’s work within the animation industry.” [Watch]
To mark International Women’s Day 2018, Strange Beast director Anna Ginsburg surveys the evolution of the female form and its perceptions over the last 30,000 years. [Watch]
The newly unified Paris studios of MPC Advertising and Mikros handle the feathery creature craft in this cheeky and hard-to-ignore full-CG spot directed by FutureDeluxe for UK mortgage brokers L&C thru agency Fold7. [Watch]
London illustrator/animator Rosanna Wan supplies the disarmingly innocent visual style in this film for The School of Life’s alternative to superficial dating apps. [Watch]
