Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
After a chance meeting earlier this year, Hamburg 3D artists Max Salzborn and Kevin Jaeger leveraged their new friendship into a collaborative motion art project investigating the universal and deeply inherent urge to collect. [Watch]
CD Harry Butt and the Nexus Design Studio leave no motion styles unexplored as they wrangle a fun collective of artists and animators into this unpredictable campaign thru Mother LA for Uber’s US food delivery service Postmates. [Watch]
A collaboration between virtual animated singer KAF and Japanese musician/DJ/producer Mondo Grosso comes to shimmering life in this ambitious music video created by Tokyo CG house Khaki for virtual talent agency Kamitsubaki Studio. [Watch]
Barcelona’s Clim Studio launches the Elaia bag for luxury Spanish leather goods brand Helia with a film ECD Clim describes as “a visual language of perfumed light and salty breeze, nurtured by elegance and proudly feminine.” [Watch]
We’re guessing the all-Buenos Aires team of animation/design studio Váscolo and Drop Music Branding had a blast making this action-comedy short featuring a legendary Kung Fu master, a very hungry bear, and their shared love of raw fish. [Watch]
Brooklyn visual artist and director Omar Jones teams with the UK’s master of hand-animated chaos RUFFMERCY on this 100-second visual rampage for American rapper Denzel Curry. [Watch]
In this new music video for Paris duo Chien Méchant, director Kelzang Ravach leads French studio Temple Caché into an acid-enhanced 80s nightmare, lacing live-action footage with an AI-generated graphic style. [Watch]
From the team at Rumpus Animation in Bristol: “Jane Fonda, Camila Cabello, and Simon Pegg voice our short film Sanctuary designed to motivate supporters and urge governments to ratify the Global Ocean Treaty and protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030.” [Watch]
London title specialists Huge Designs, whose many styles of design we’ve covered here, assemble a collage of illustrative and 3D elements into an enigmatic sequence for the British thriller series Wilderness. [Watch]
With inspiration drawn from a Beijing Opera performance depicting two warriors fighting in the dark, director Zhang Yu and his team at CCLAB combine dynamic motion with a black and white palette in a sleek TVC for HUAWEI’s flagship phone range. [Watch]
In understated but powerful new work, Mill+ director Andrew Proctor and The Mill VFX crew showcase the new DWB, a fictitious CG car designed to “shine a light on the double standard in policing of Black people in America.” [Watch]
Tobias Gallé at design studio Pikdrei in Mannheim, Germany: “We were invited with the fantastic brief of ‘You are allowed to do whatever you want’, to create the opening titles for the 2023 Beyond Tellerrand Conference in Berlin.” [Watch]
In their latest elegant and energized product film for Chinese skincare brand Zhiben, Final Frontier and Copenhagen CG masters Frame choreograph a compelling showcase for the brand’s Dermal Defender refill system. [Watch]
Expanding on his 2021 CG motion experiment Synced, Belgian designer/3D artist Fabian Aerts crafts a poetic visual allegory for the corrosive power of deceit and deception in this new short film LIE. [Watch]
