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November 12, 2024
The 2014 BassAwards for Motion Graphics, Animation and Broadcast Design opened for entries Jan 16, with this frenetic/furry head-turner from Nomint and ZeligSound. Enter your most killer work by Feb 18 to snag discounted rates. [Watch]
Berlin’s Polynoid (aka Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck, Csaba Letay, Fabian Pross, Tom Weber) just released this ambitious/meticulous Dragon Eternity game trailer thru their new prodco/studio venture called Woodblock designed to separate production from the “pure directing and filmmaking character that defines Polynoid as a creative collective. Woodblock opens up new possibilities for us as filmmakers, and for our studio as a production house by introducing our roster of different directing talent and artists.” [Watch]
By focusing on and personifying the frozen threat of the athletes’ nemesis at the Sochi Winter Olympics (voiced by Charles Dance from Game of Thrones), the BBC and Platige Image director Tomasz Bagi?ski not only create a grand and powerful promo, they also effectively contrast the athlete-centric treatment found in [Watch]
Inspired by the work of photographer Richard Misrach, Elastic director Patrick Clair conjures a world of dark intrigue with this compelling open for HBO’s new “True Detective” series starring and EP’d by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson which launched Saturday. Design, animation and compositing by [Watch]
Lisbon director/designer Renato Marques illuminates a strong script with austere and striking CG to mark the 66th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Produced thru US prodco Workhouse Creative and backed by music and sound design by Marco Almeida. [Watch]
What better way to end the week than watching an over-achieving over-the-top cheeze fest? Writer/director David Sandberg and his Laser Unicorns wracked up 6M YT views in less than three weeks with this feature film trailer, more than doubling their Kickstarter goal with another two weeks ago. [Watch]
Unlike the Batmobile, a redesign of Santa’s sleigh usually involves mild-mannered and unexceptional tweaks but Buck LA and Santa Monica agency RPA take the assignment to a clever new level in this 2:30 director’s cut underscoring Honda’s “The Power of Dreams” tag. Built on a head-slapping why-didn’t-I-think- [Watch]
Fueled by the poetry of writer/activist Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues), Brooklyn director/animator/illustrator/artist Jordan Bruner teams with the crew at Passion Pictures NY to “inspire personal visions of justice for all victims of gender violence.” Equal parts engagment, emotion and art, the film was produced for the [Watch]
For this series of elegant and playful IDs for Danish lifestyle channel TV3 Puls, Copenhagen motion house Frame say the brief “focused on creating an identity package that reflected the feel of the channel rather than the content of it. They had to be abstract, clearly avoiding literal cliches and had to be all graphic [Watch]
Stink directing duo Jake Knight and Ryoko Tanaka (aka Ne-O) teamed with Glassworks to create this CG/live action Westside Pond Story based on Leo Burnett London’s creative. Powered by The Kinks’ classic “You Really Got Me,” the spot somehow slipped by us back in October. Check the making of clip here. [Watch]
Tasty and tasteful 3D abstraction from Amsterdam’s 3D abstraction masters that we failed to acknowledge when Zeitguised dropped it in late summer. Part of a commissioned art series featuring artists’ impressions of Absolute products. Produced thru Stink Berlin and Sid Lee Amsterdam. [Watch]
According to the Wall Street Journal, 2013 saw US stocks post their “biggest annual rally in 18 years.” According to Stash Magazine, 2013 was the year the animation, VFX and design industry regained full confidence, finally pulling itself clear of the shadow cast by Wall Street’s 2008 gift to the world economy. [Watch]
