Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
Three years after signing with Passion Animation Studio for UK and US representation, Stockholm-based duo againstallodds (aka Niklas Rissler and Derek Picken) have become the go-to directors for heart-tugging CG narratives. [Watch]
The edge-case dangers of online dating provide the departure point for LA animator Brent Sievers in his new, over-the-top (and not-entirely-safe-for-work) animated short called “Hermetic Dating Rituals.” [Watch]
Lots of low-tech alt-pop fun via Parallel Teeth (aka London director/animator Robert Wallace) for the “I’m Easy” track off the debut album from New Zealand’s Merk called “Swordfish.”
East London design and motion studio WeCanMake serves up a compelling case for the fact money laundering is not a victimless crime, and urging financial professionals to report their clients’ suspicious activity. [Watch]
The TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel American Gods launches on Starz April 30 with this dense and enigmatic sequence by Elastic director Patrick Clair. [Watch]
Executive Creative Director Ben Smith and The Mill crew take the CG tableau technique to a new level in this spot for the United States Marine Corps, cramming pivotal historical battles with grit and painstaking detail. [Watch]
Director Joe Ball and the Psyop LA crew combine streamlined design, an upscale palette, and clever light-driven transitions
to put a human face on the wealth management services available thru Citibank’s Citigold product. [Watch]
Lobo directors Mateus de Paula Santos and Fábio Acorsi leverage poetic copy from Brazilian agency F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi
into a moody abstraction of spectral geometry for the Leica M Monochrom, billed as the first digital black-and-white camera.
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Adult Swim reinvigorates the exquisite corpse genre with a three-minute avalanche of style and action featuring the talents of 28 animators and centered on TOM 5.0 the current host of Toonami, the channel’s adult animation block. [Watch]
Barcelona creative director and motion designer Abel Reverter takes on the colour red in the second film from CNN’s Colorscope series, admitting: “The bar was set super high after the amazing job Moth Studio made on the first piece.” [Watch]
Brazilian animator Antonio Vicentini is the latest in a string of intrepid motion talent to tackle a visual interpretation of the wisdom and social insights UK philosopher and The School of Life founder Alain de Botton. [Watch]
Turns out life inside a Virgin Media fibre optic connection is just one big rampaging extravaganza of characters and chaos – according to Rogue director Sam Brown and the VFX crew at The Mill in London. [Watch]
Vancouver director/animator Eoin Duffy explains his views on the announced cuts to public broadcasting in the US (PBS, NPR, etc.) with this thoughtful visual essay. [Watch]
Rendering modern phone-zombie masses in the style of early 1930s cartoons, London director/animator Steve Cutts creates a stark contrast between form and tone in his interpretation of Moby’s ode to the dangers of the always-connected life. [Watch]
