Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
Imaginary Forces CDs Charles Khoury and Tosh Kodama conjure a sombre and tactile intro sequence for an interactive video from Netflix Australia called “Spectrum” which promises to help you “discover your shade of story.” [Watch]
Buck continues their string of character-driven charmers for McDonald’s with a 3D romp including the world’s yummiest-looking CG blueberry muffin, all fresh from ECD Ryan Honey and crew thru Cossette Chicago. [Watch]
Discover how Sons and Daughters director/DOP Mark Zibert and Toronto post/animation/design house Alter Ego seamlessly combine an array of VFX techniques to create riveting but rider-less action in this spot for Cycle Canada, the center piece of a national campaign. [Watch]
Outsider directors Dom & Nic: “After researching the feasibility of shooting a real black swan it became clear the best way forward for this film was to create it entirely in CG [but] we wanted to approach it with the same mentality and process that we would do a live action shoot. [Watch]
Smile-inducing character GIFs to cheer up your Monday morning (used across the Virgin America universe including the website, email newsletters and internal presentations) from the all-London team of design consultancy Build and animation/interactive studio Animade. [Watch]
Elastic director/CD Patrick Clair‘s reputation as the go-to TV titles guy continues to grow with this brooding, scarlet-soaked effort created for Marvel’s “Daredevil” series premiering this week on Netflix. [Watch]
The Chicago outpost of The Mill/Mill+ expand their repertoire with this impossibly happy 2D character fest for Dairy Queen powered by a catchy ditty scripted by agency Barkley US and composed by Sam Billen at Primary Color Music. [Watch]
Brand New School crafts a powerful clip promoting Intel’s on-going quest to eliminate conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo and their global supply chain: “People should have a conflict-free choice so by starting over, reconnecting the dots across the globe, and convincing partners to do the right thing [Watch]
In August 2016 South America plays Olympic host for the first time as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
take over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Take a quick peek at how the Trollback design crew built the logo for NBC’s promotion and coverage of the event. [Watch]
After four months of previs work and 126 layout attempts in 3D, Gorgeous director Chris Palmer and Glassworks CD Jordi Bares finally nailed the recursive and hypnotic three-dimensional Droste Effect (where a picture appears within itself ad infinitum) required to build “The Endless Road” for Honda’s CR-V [Watch]
Childline, the 24-hour UK counseling service for children and young people, takes on the problem of porn-overload among 10-13 year olds with a series of three incredibly frank and therefore controversial webisodes based on illustrations by James Wignall and Mina Song and animated by Alexander Shaharovsky [Watch]
Discover how Mill+ director Russell Tickner and a 30-person crew at The Mill wrangled 900 million CG Lego bricks into 100 characters all composited into live action shot over four days in South Africa to create this roller-coaster-like spot called “Awesome Awaits” for LEGOLAND thru agency BMB. [Watch]
Rods director Thierry Poiraud and Paris VFX powerhouse BUF help French subscription satellite/cable provider CANALSAT backhand the French tradition of airing American TV series six months after they premier in the US. Agency: BETC, Paris. Sound: Kouz. [Watch]
Dave Hughes, creator of Adult Swim’s 4 a.m. experimental cult hit Off the Air, talks to Stash about his latest collaboration with Baltimore composer/musician Dan Deacon called “When I Was Done Dying,” gathering nine exceptional animators for a surreal and unrelenting visual assault. [Watch]
