Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
Fabulous rant for Adidas soccer boots based on a script by agency Iris Worldwide, assembled by Spanish director Ernest Desumbila thru Frenzy Paris with VFX/post by Limon Estudios in Barcelona and starring footballers Luis Suarez, Karim Benzema, James Rodriguez and Gareth Bale. [Watch]
1stAveMachine remixes Gatorade’s 1991 feel-good classic “Be Like Mike” spot with tasty layers of rotoscoping and graphics for TBWA\Chiat\Day. [Watch]
French director/designer Alice Saey just won the HAFFTube! award at the Holland Animation Film Festival with this deranged mix of hair, fire and synchronized swimming for Dutch rockers Shaking Godspeed. [Watch]
Everything you ever wanted to know about the seminal English charter of 1215 called Magna Carta in two short, entertaining and nicely crafted animated clips by Beakus director/designer Gergely Wootsch with the VO talents of Monty Python’s Terry Jones. [Watch]
Chez Eddy/Hornet directors Emmanuelle & Julien (who both worked on the spectacular Supinfocom short A La Française) just dropped us their latest: a short, sweet, animated confection shedding light on the hidden lives and frustrations of garden ornaments. [Watch]
Ben West, currently creative director at Framestore LA, just released the full version of his phenomenal sushi comedy “FUGU & TAKO” for your viewing pleasure. The doc-style buddy film (exploring the perils and unexpected pleasures of eating live puffer fish) and the perfectly realized VFX were created [Watch]
The Stash Permanent Collection keeps growing with issue 110 adding another 31 brilliant animation, VFX and motion design projects PLUS an outstanding 49 minutes of revealing behind-the-scenes features and exclusive interviews with the designers, directors and producers behind the work. Over 4,000 of the planet’s most innovative and interesting commercials, music videos, brand films, broadcast […] [Watch]
Creative Solutions, the in-house design agency of German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 TV, handled the recent full channel-wide rebrand of their mothership drawing inspiration from the UIs of mobile platforms. [Watch]
Stash is pleased to premier director Michael Fragstein’s whimsical, minimal and completely unpredictable mini-music video for “Plea” by Max & Laura Braun produced at the Büro Achter April studio in Stuttgart. [Watch]
The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark continues to incubate a broad range of impressive student work including this VFX stunner from a team of six 3rd year Character Animation and CG Arts students: “The fibers of our being are what we seek to control. Through dance, do we fight the chaos or let it go?” [Watch]
Intriguing live action and CG trailer for Polish sci-fi writer Jacek Dukaj’s new novel “The Old Axolotl” from director Maciej Jackiewicz and Warsaw’s 3D powerhouse Platige Image who also handled all the visual content for the e-book and key visuals for the promo campaign. [Watch]
Animation director Luiz Stockler at Agile Films in London leavens Australian surf veteran Rob Bain’s incredible story of a tsunami-induced near death experience with a subdued comic edge in the second of a series for Red Bull Media. [Watch]
Paris motion designer and art director Raphaël Bluzet just dropped us his newest animated short called “IN”: a quick stream of consciousness nightmare based on the illustrations of Yohan Quintar and starring an alternate-universe Buster Keaton re-imagined by Franz Kafka on a rough day. [Watch]
OFFSET, Dublin’s multi-disciplinary creative festival, opened their 2015 presentation on Friday with a title sequence jammed with cheeky felines and freeform typography created by London animation prodco Golden Wolf and hometown audio house Echolab. [Watch]
