Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
In a mesmerizing mix of CG and live action, Psyop directing duo Todd Mueller and Kylie Matulick reprise their Aldi holiday hero Kevin the Carrot while packing the full 90 seconds with layers of characters, gadgets, food, and comic details. [Watch]
Hard on the heels of the titles for Lessons in Chemistry, Elastic ECD Hazel Baird delivers a standout opening sequence for the 2nd episode of “Daphne”, the third season of FX’s anthology series American Horror Story. [Watch]
Like a drone flight over an alien landscape, this film from Minneapolis medical animation studio Hybrid reveals the strange beauty and intense detail of the world inside a tumor, with some scenes requiring the rendering of over 10 million cells. [Watch]
Lead by directors Kun Chang and Fabien Fulchiron, Tonic DNA in Montreal re-teams with grocery retailer IGA and agency Sid Lee to conjure a grandfather’s magical story of Mr. Beaver and how he came to share his favorite holiday dessert. [Watch]
The avalanche of holiday heart-warmers continues with the return of Kroger’s much-loved Kroji characters in a tale directed by Yves Geleyn and Michael Thurmeier at Hornet thru agency Adam&eveDDB New York. [Watch]
Newly adopted sons of Wales Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney join comedian Dawn French as she reprises her fairy role in the annual Marks & Spencer holiday outing via Outsider directors Dom&Nic with animated mittens and VFX by The Mill. [Watch]
Compelling production work here from Builders Club and London editing studio Avenues for Brooklyn’s Air Company whose reactor converts carbon into carbon-negative products, “turning our most abundant pollutant into a resource for good.” [Watch]
Nexus director Paloma Baeza, who won a BAFTA and an Annie for her stop-motion short film Poles Apart featuring two bears, moves on to CG birds in this glitzy holiday number for British online retailer Very. [Watch]
The first big holiday spot of the season landed today courtesy of Stink directors Traktor for British retailer Argos with London VFX house Untold handling Connie the doll’s dance moves and Trevor the dinosaur’s disastrous directing. [Watch]
Cincinnati-based brothers Kevin and Douglas Gautraud bring together their respective studios (motion design house Polymath and prodco Semaphore) to elevate the art of the explainer for cancer diagnostics company EosDx. [Watch]
Director/concept artist Kristoffer Brady in Paris: “GHOSTS is a tribute to the original animated short Hashiru Otoko by anime master Yoshiaki Kawajiri, creator of the classics Vampire Hunter D, Wicked City, and Ninja Scroll. [Watch]
The latest short film release from the Gobelins 2023 computer animation class tracks the visually arresting ebb and flow of buried inner traumas as they wash over a young woman trapped in a disabled space station. [Watch]
Le Cube partner/CD Santiago Oddis contemplates a poetic but lighthearted connection between your sneakers and the cut-outs created by Henri Matisse in the last chapter of his long and multifaceted career. [Watch]
London-based designer/AD Dan Hoopert just released the second short film in his Audio Synthesis series exploring the relationship between motion and sound. Although technically-driven, both films make for delightful viewing. [Watch]
