Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
UK director Kris Hofmann, who charmed us with her gentle call to save Britain’s hedgehogs, is back with another warm and tactile multi-media stop-motion project. [Watch]
Strong character work, wonderful art direction and a brief lesson in listening from Léa Cousty and her short film “Sur Ecoute,” created during her fourth year studying animation at Supinfocom Valenciennes. [Watch]
Yambo Studio in Tel Aviv nudges the architectural visualization industry out of its comfort zone (of pristinely rendered but often sterile imagery) with this playful retail spot for a residential tower in their hometown. [Watch]
David Chontos, a director and the head of CG at PSYOP LA, describes his latest short film as “part exercise of passion and part love letter – ‘Sisters’ is a fragment of some lost, tragic opera.” [Watch]
Watch how the Sao Paulo office of Wieden+Kennedy created their striking new visual identity based on a geometric pattern found right under their feet – on the city’s sidewalks. [Watch]
In 2015, Barcelona director Ernest Desumbila burst onto the Stash radar showcasing his graphic design roots in a meticulous jaw-dropper for Adidas soccer boots called “There Will be Haters.” [Watch]
US VFX shop Ingenuity Studios bring the supporting animation, CG, and compositing to Joseph Kahn’s stylish rush of contortionist aliens and replicant Imagine Dragons in “Thunder.” [Watch]
The idea that rising temperatures are bad for business as well as the planet may prove to be one of the most powerful factors revealed by research into climate change – as it directly threatens the financial health of corporations and governments. [Watch]
Los Angeles freelance art director and designer CJ Cook reveals the design and motion process behind “Totems,” his personal experiment with “colors, camera moves, and different kinds of animation.” [Watch]
Hot on the heels of his nightmarish opening for Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” on Starz, Patrick Clair kicks open the doors on Marvel’s “Iron Fist” for Netlflix with this energized and inky mocap spectacle. [Watch]
Jumping confidently between animation techniques including stop-motion, UPA-influenced 2D, and golden age black and white, 2nd year CalArts student Mathieu Libman ruminates on life, love, and small blessings in disguise with “Pinky Toe.” [Watch]
You may be surprised to discover just how McGarryBowen London went about putting the monster back in Monster.com for this massive new multi-national campaign. [Watch]
If you caught Kibwe Tavares’ short film “Jonah”, you know his talent for story craft enhanced with magic realism VFX work is second to none. [Watch]
American feature film directing icon John Carpenter takes us back to a log cabin in Kentucky and unfolds a formative childhood memory in this wonderful film by Barcelona’s Device for the Primavera Sound festival. [Watch]
