Let director John Jones and Paris studio 2FACTORY kick-start your Friday with a cast of desperate characters and over-the-top walk cycles packaged into in a very unsubtle comment about conformity and personal style in this romp for electro/hip-hop duo Cosmic Valley called “Superbia (Ft. Basement Beatzz).” [Watch]
The NYC studio of Imaginary Forces wraps ESPN’s extensive broadcast coverage of the 2016 Euro Cup in a dynamic and diverse package of 200 animated elements inspired by the history and artistic heritage of the month-long tournament’s host country France. [Watch]
Wonderfully ornate collage and illustration work by Paris artistic director Roxane Lagache comes to life courtesy of French motion designer/director Cyrille Smaha in this energized brand film for Chanel, episode 15 of an ongoing series created thru Paris prodco Falabracks. [Watch]
Pre-show theatre announcements in Brazil got a whole lot more intricate and interesting recently with the introduction of this ambitious mix of CG and miniatures from São Paulo production powerhouse Vector Zero. [Watch]
In February 2013, as snow piled up on NYC streets, 400 creative-types sat in a sold out theater transfixed by brilliant presentations, surprising insights, and heated exchanges about the creative eco-system and where it was headed. The first edition of STYLE FRAMES: The Art of the Pitch was underway. [Watch]
Packed with both adrenalin and atmosphere, this CG trailer – produced in collaboration with Ubisoft Paris for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands – moves Paris studio Mathematic firmly into the top tier of game promotion. [Watch]
Powered by a dark and dirty theme from Atticus Ross, Erin Sarofsky‘s titles for Animal Kingdom, John Wells’ new drama project on TNT, fill the luxurious 60-second run-time with lots of gritty atmosphere and high-speed, skin-throbbing needles. [Watch]
Montreal studio Fluorescent Hill taps the deep well of flight safety card parody to perk up the commute of 250,000 daily riders on GO Transit (Ontario’s public commuter train/bus system), thru agency Tribal Toronto. [Watch]
Real-life Canadian animation legend Cordell Barker – creator of Oscar-nominated shorts “The Cat Came Back” and “Strange Invaders” plus hundreds of commercials – takes on the “the difficult gateway between childhood and adolescence” in his latest opus “If I Was God…” [Watch]
I have very good news for all of you who ever had this conversation: “Dude! What if Encyclopedia Pictura made a video game with Kanye!” To which came the reply, “I’m so in. But PROMISE me I get to play as Kanye’s mom flying through the gates of heaven.” [Watch]
London design and motion studio Art&Graft take on the challenge of conveying a character’s emotions without the benefit of facial features in this 3D animated charmer for Costa Sunglasses thru agency McGarrah Jessee. [Watch]
There are only so many Dumb Ways to Die but infinite applications for cute animated characters singing a cheeky and hook-filled tune for an unglamorous product. Witness “Make a Nappy Happy” for Docusol (mini-enemas for pediatric constipation) from McCann Humancare in London with production by Kilogramme.
[Watch]
In the summer of 2014 Vancouver VFX veterans The Embassy released the spectacular “Ultimate Racetrack” for BMW Canada directed and edited in-house by Ozan Biron. Almost two years later the making-of video finally drops and the wait was worth it. [Watch]
The London five-piece rock’n’roll outfit known as Dead Pirates just dropped this retro-subversive (and not all-together SFW) video for “UGO” from their upcoming album HIGHMARE animated by their co-founder McBess, the French illustrator extraordinaire and one half of Passion directing duo McBess & Simon. [Watch]