Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
Quick shot of classic squash-and-stretchy character love from the Golden Wolf crew for Craig McCracken’s Wander over Yonder series on Disney XD featuring intergalactic optimist Wander, his loyal steed Sylvia, Lord Hater and one his Watchdogs dancin’ to a remix of the show theme by Wevie. [Watch]
Once in a while Monty Python’s segue “and now for something completely different” rings very true in life or in art. Case in point: Project Gooseberry aka “Cosmos Laundromat,” the sixth film from open source CG pioneers Blender Institute helmed by French director Mathieu Auvray. [Watch]
Join CDs William Campbell, Will Johnson and the Gentleman Scholar crew for an insightful peek into the creation of their first VR experience, a charming and atmospheric blend of 2D character animation and CG landscapes called “Truffle Pig.”. [Watch]
The Buck crew help Wieden+Kennedy break Nike out of the footwear industry’s recent (and spectacular) CG habit with these two short blasts of extreme 2D action for Hypervenom soccer boots as worn by Brazil’s captain Neymar Jr. and Poland’s captain Robert Lewandowski. [Watch]
Leap forward in time 35 years and join 1stAveMachine director/co-founder Arvind Palep as he follows an NYPD patrol into the bowels of a dangerous and dystopian Manhattan. [Watch]
ManvsMachine (with production help from Neon and audio by David Kamp) conjures a crazed mix of live action and CG for this impossible-to-ignore refresh of ITV2, the naughty sibling of the ITV family aimed at 16-34s. [Watch]
UK brandsmiths Holman + Hunt team with London’s art/tech installation mavens United Visual Artists to create this series of kinetic, highly graphic sport IDs for CANAL+ all in camera and CG-free. [Watch]
Director Mark Lindner at London studio Panoply says the studio’s sleek and fractured new CG opus “Genesis” draws “heavily on a visual currency distilled from the subconscious and the psychology of self [and] dares us to fleetingly glimpse our own origins, our civilization and the known universe.” Audio by Echoic. [Watch]
Nomint founders and directing duo Christos Lefakis and Yannis Konstantinidis help JWT London target classic U.K. beverage Ribena to young adults with this maximalist collage of blackcurrants and trippy fauna all held together by an infectious custom track from indie UK hiphop oufit Tigermonkey. [Watch]
For a curator, few things compare to the jolt of excitement when you stumble upon promising talent, especially if their work is still very personal and not yet burdened with the harsh realities of the design business [Watch]
I overheard two teenagers on the train yesterday debating whether the Lexus hoverboard was real or not. One swore it was “just like Back to the Future,” the other insisted it had to be “CGI.” Thanks to this making-of film, we now know the deck uses “liquid-nitrogen-cooled super-conductors and permanent magnets” to float on hidden tracks. [Watch]
Cool first teaser in the global launch campaign for “Breakthrough,” a series from National Geographic Channel and GE featuring six high-profile directors (Ron Howard, Peter Berg, Paul Giamatti, Brett Ratner, Akiva Goldsman, Angela Bassett) helming “stories from the cutting edge of science”. [Watch]
The frustration of slow mobile downloads perfectly expressed in three over-the-top metaphor-dramadies courtesy of the all-Buenos Aries team of director Jonathan Gurvit, VFX house La Posta and agency Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi for the BGH G4 LTE smartphone. [Watch]
If you were wondering why Baymax in Big Hero 6 looked so good (or you just want a primer in CG rendering), check this 10-min film from Walt Disney Animation Studios explaining how path tracing works and how their Hyperion renderer makes it possible to, for example, render vast city scenes with out the use of matte painting extensions. [Watch]
