Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
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.
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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]
Turin, Italy design and animation studio NERDO turns to audacious typography and bold, clean compositions in this set of three striking broadcast IDs designed to help La Effe stand out among the many offerings on SKY Italy. [Watch]
Fun and informative potty-mouthed short from Austin brand studio The Butler Bros with animation by Buck‘s LA studio for the Clif Bar Family Foundation maintains “our food system is f*cked, but we can fix it.” [Watch]
