Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
If you have any entrepreneurial bones in your body this mini-portrait of MVMT Watches co-founder Jake Kassan, created by Matt Smithson (aka Man vs Magnet) for Shopify, will certainly stir your blood. [Watch]
In 2015 German animator Henning M. Lederer scored a cult hit with his hypnotic animated short “Covers” by infusing 55 mid-century book designs with motion. “More Covers” expands the exercise with 36 additional publications. [Watch]
Oats Studios (Neill Blomkamp’s new experimental filmmaking venture) just released “Kapture: Fluke,” an all-CG short with the look and feel of a 2010 game cinematic powered by what Blomkamp calls “a very macabre sense of humor.” [Watch]
Director Kris Merc teams with CD Daniel Garcia at Yes Boss and the animation team at MEMOMA Estudio to wrap several tasty layers of wit and 2D wizardry around this Atomic Blonde promo for Adult Swim. [Watch]
The Cobb Studio crew in Seoul, South Korea ignore all the tired tropes that dog TV drama and bust out a cast of geo-minimalist characters in these effervescent on-air brand IDs for SkyDrama. [Watch]
The Framestore Film team in London and Integrated Advertising team in Los Angeles extend the studio’s big screen experience with the Hulk into director Jonathan Gurvit’s slammin’ new “Renault KWID” spot. [Watch]
UK designer/director Chris Hopewell (Radiohead’s “Burn the Witch”) brings his talents for carefully lit and obsessively detailed stop motion to this video for former Fleet Fox, Father John Misty. [Watch]
UK branding heavyweights DixonBaxi just unveiled their work for Eurosport’s coverage of the Olympics for the next eight years, a massive project with guidelines for everything from on-air assets to souvenirs. [Watch]
MPC brings the VFX power (both visible and not) to director Salomon Ligthelm’s testosterone-fueled spot for Audi’s RS line with actor Michael Maino nailing the script from agency Venables Bell. [Watch]
UK illustrator Matthew Lyons (whose client list includes The New York Times, WIRED, Playboy, and the Washington Post) expands his talent for nuanced palettes and ethereal settings gracefully into the video space. [Watch]
Yuval Haker, an animator/illustrator/designer and photographer currently interning at Dress Code in New York, created this stream of randy, colorful chaos as his graduation film at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. [Watch]
Few projects have resonated with Stash readers like Mark Romanek’s video for JAY-Z’s “The Story Of O.J.” so we’re pleased to present the first look at the process behind the phenom: a Q&A with CD Lisha Tan and AD Tim Devlin at The Mill. [Watch]
The new season of Rick and Morty (Adult Swim’s most scientifically accurate animated comedy) hit the air last night. The network promo’d the return of the cult hit with this acid-fueled frenzy created by 22 animators lead by Titmouse director Matt Taylor. [Watch]
Striking the perfect tone of assertive but approachable, London directors Moth and the Hornet NYC crew reveal the process behind Facebook’s efforts to detect and delete posts that violate their community standards. [Watch]
