From Animography: Type-36 is a clean, capsule-like and geometric typeface. The animations are applied to the ExtraBold weight and are a highly customizable glitch style reveal. Control color, distortion and secondary elements to tailor Type-36 to your project. [Watch]
The all-Scandinavian team of director/illustrator Hanne berkaak, animator My Eklund, and animation studio Mikrofilm unite to create a solemn but hopeful PSA for RVTS South, the Norwegian human resource development center for psychological trauma. [Watch]
Zurich animator/designer/illustrator Frederic Siegel draws on his own obsessive-compulsive habits to create “Ruben Leaves,” a five minute study of modern neuroses full of dark humor and spectacular visuals wrought in a stripped down palette. [Watch]
Here’s how London VFX hot shop Analog conjured all the frosty magic in the “Create Your Ride” spot for Steep, Ubisoft’s open-world game, where players snowboard, ski, wing suit, or paraglide, through spectacular mountain terrain. [Watch]
Fans of Joan Miró and 20th century surrealism will delight in this frenetic (and wordless) interpretation of “Romance Sonámbulo” by revered Spanish poet Federico García Lorca created by Theodore Ushev a Bulgarian animator/designer/artist based in Montreal.
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A fabulous 95-second collection of clever, bouncy, and carefully animated GIFs guaranteed to brighten your day courtesy of Israeli illustrator/animator and character magician Eran Mendel. [Watch]
Inspired by the concept of “potential,” Turkish motion designer Murat Pak opened the 10th edition of FITC Amsterdam this morning with a stark and elegant sequence of minimalist geometric vignettes set to haunting music by Lustmord (aka Welsh composer Brian Williams). [Watch]
Always a happy morning when new work from Nexus directing legends (and all round decent blokes) Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes arrives – like this animated short designed to make you forget the drudgery of buying insurance. [Watch]
An sharp script from Wieden & Kennedy and seamless 2D VFX work from The Mill powers this riveting Atlantic Magazine short from O Positive director David Shane starring four versions of Michael K. Williams discussing the perils and perqs of his career. [Watch]
Compact and perfectly formed CG short created in four weeks by three fourth-year students at French 3D animation school MoPA (formerly Supinfocom Arles) around the theme of “Fear of heights.” [Watch]
So, here’s the thing: after the zombie apocalypse ended we exiled the surviving “cured” zombies into quarantine camps. Now some bleeding heart liberals want to re-integrate these creatures back into your neighborhood. [Watch]
Australian director Kyra Bartley and Heckler head of production Aborah Buick mark Valentines Day 2017 by gathering 111 artists, illustrators, and animators to push back against the “narrow depiction of hetero-normative love” found in modern media.
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French directors Mrzyk & Moriceau serve up solid advice for Dick the Dog on Valentines Day for the MTV Staying Alive Foundation with animation by Mathematic and music from Woody Guthrie thru Ogilvy & Mather Hong Kong. [Watch]
Quick and cheeky intro to the basics of VFX work including rotoscoping, tracking, 3D, and rig removal created by Roy Peker, a digital compositor at London powerhouse Milk Visual Effects, and featuring UK actor Aaron Vodovoz. [Watch]