1stAveMachine pulls together legendary character designer Wilfrid Wood and London animation studio Red Knuckles to help FCB Inferno London and mega-publisher Pearson focus attention on how many of the planet’s biggest problems stem from the fact three-quarters of a billion humans cannot read or write. [Watch]
Written, directed and animated by Brazilian CG talent André Holzmeister, “Malak and the Boat” is the first in a new animated series sponsored by UNICEF thru agency 180LA called Unfairy Tales designed to highlight the trauma suffered by the youngest victims of the Syrian refugee crisis. [Watch]
London designer, visual artist and filmmaker Fabrice Le Nezet says his new animated 3D short film “Pump” (with music by Paris electro artist Azel Phara) started as a typographic research project inspired by primitive alphabets. [Watch]
No matter how complex or fragile you believe this planet to be, this data visualization from Dr. Mauro Martino at Harvard and Jianxi Gao at Northeastern University (based on a recent paper published in Nature called “Universal Resilience Patterns in Complex Networks”) will redefine your appreciation for both. [Watch]
Sweeping and spectacular CG environments frame a man’s descent and return in this short called “A Drop” from Julien Vanhoenacker, a director and VFX artist working at The Post Bangkok in Thailand. [Watch]
JP Rooney, aka the Gentleman Scholar associate creative director with the ex-racing greyhound named Ghostface, channels his inner bonbon with this 3D Valentines confection full of snappy character animation. [Watch]
