Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
South African VFX house Chocolate Tribe takes the lead in creating the VFX for Kibwe Tavares’ stellar new short film “Robot & Scarecrow” wherein said protagonists navigate the perils and pitfalls of love-struck outsiders. [Watch]
Have a look at the intricate and seamlessly integrated CG created by South Africa’s Wicked Pixels for the official music video for Björk’s “Notget” track which follows the VR video released earlier this year. [Watch]
Watching this sardonic exposé of the many perils of a career in the motion arts, I assumed the director was a grizzled industry veteran. Alas no, “Motion Makes a Masochist” is Dev Joshi’s graduation film. [Watch]
Amsterdam directing duo BLND (aka Fran Marquez and Daniela Uribe) offer both esoteric and practical advice to fellow creatives on how to re-discover inspiration when all seems lost. [Watch]
British concert pianist, memoirist, and iconoclast James Rhodes takes us under the covers in his room at a psychiatric hospital to reveal a very personal musical memory in this animated film directed by Bungalow in Barcelona. [Watch]
If there’s such a thing as minimalist maximalism, this entrancing and intricate infinite zoom created by German director/animator Henning Max Lederer for OMD’s new single “Isotype” is probably it. [Watch]
Rotating sets are certainly not new (Royal Wedding, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Poltergeist, etc.) but this deployment from director Show Yanagisawa for Sony’s Gravity Rush 2 game updates the technique with a secret weapon: the ginger kitten. [Watch]
Italian animation innovator and provocateur Donato Sansone (aka milkyeyes) suppresses his natural tendency toward the NSFW and grotesque to hand-craft a snappy don’t-text-and-drive message for Ford Italy. [Watch]
Unit9 director Cole Paviour and cinematographer James Medcraft combine motion capture, motion control, and a unique multi-plane liquid printer to create the planet’s first animated liquid human all in camera. [Watch]
The social network for athletes called Strava gave each of its 1.2 million members a stunning and personalized CG film displaying their individual training achievements in 2016. [Watch]
Mobile phones are hard to tell apart as are most of the ads promoting them, but Shanghai director/ motion designer SOMEI is helping OPPO change that by surrounding the expected pristine product shots with fun and unexpected visuals. [Watch]
Essentially unchanged since 1933 when French tennis star Jean René Lacoste (aka the Crocodile) invented them, polo shirts are as “Timeless” as men’s fashion gets. [Watch]
A stumpy but fearless sea captain finds himself alone against impossible odds in “Tempest,” a CG short packed with high drama and spectacular VFX from director Bryan Engram and the Brazen Animation crew in Dallas. [Watch]
This brooding and meticulous new CG short from the Tendril crew called “Coming to America” premiered last night on STARZ to accompany episode five of the hit fantasy-drama “American Gods.” [Watch]
