Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
Founder/CD Kevin McCrae and the CG team at Revenant in Glasgow craft a pair of sci-fi teaser films for Oakley designed to unify the diverse interpretations of the company and “create a cohesive context for the brand’s evolution.” [Watch]
Motion North, the Manchester-based group of designers, animators, and VFX artists, returns January 17, 2024 with presentations from audio mavens Zelig Sound and pioneering visual studio Universal Everything. [Watch]
Zombie Studio director Paulo Garcia rallies a massive team and a dynamic mix of CG characters, Chinese-style ink animation, paper stop-motion, and live-action for this film that premiered before the 2023 Asian Games. [Watch]
Creative director Cristina Pasquale leads the illustration and animation teams at illo in Turin, Italy, into a global adventure of bold colors, geometric patterns and diverse characters for grant-making organization Thousand Currents. [Watch]
Studio AKA director Steve Small conjures the dark times in the life of NBA hall of famer George Gervin in three evocative animated portait sequences for One9’s documentary Iceman, released on the NBA App and NBA TV. [Watch]
Director Nicolás Cañellas and the motion crew at Spot Studio in Barcelona elevate the profile of hometown eyewear maker lool with two precise and tactile films highlighting the brands light-weight and thoughtful designs. [Watch]
After a stellar tour of the festival circuit, Buenos Aires director Florentina González unleashes her wholly original and delightfully strange short film El After Del Mundo (about the post-apocalypse afterlife) to the wider world. [Watch]
Toonami, Adult Swim’s Japanese animation programming block gets a quick kick in the branding with this crazed 20-second mix of 3D and 2D character animation from the teams at Zeppelin and Apus Studios in Lima, Peru. [Watch]
Third year students Joséphine Vendeville, Clémence Bellet, Florian Lecocq, Célia Leblois, and Charlie Bossuyt at French digital arts school Piktura (formerly Pôle 3D) craft a culinary world tour in their short film “180°C”. [Watch]
Designer/director Zachary Corzine and the crew at Creative Studio just dropped us their resplendent new brand film for Bitkey, the self-custody Bitcoin wallet developed by Block Inc., the company behind Square and Cash App. [Watch]
London’s Territory Studio delivers plenty of elemental drama in this 90-second film announcing the launch of Jar of Sparks, the new game development studio founded by Xbox pioneer Jerry Hook and Chinese internet giant NetEase. [Watch]
Working with Brighton design and branding firm Studio Makgill, character animation specialists Form Play convey the joyfulness and well-being at the center of UK student accommodation brand Joint Living. [Watch]
Paris-based art director Dmitry Cherenkov captures a sense of warmth and thoughtful design across both day and night in this tranquil and abstracted CG brand film for Ukraine-based construction company Enki. [Watch]
LA-based directing twins, Adam and Nathan Freise team with veteran art director Ren Chen for a golf shoe glitch-fest in this 30-second blast of CG Style for adidas and their Codechaos Laceless Primeknit Boost. [Watch]
