Covert Teams With Aniverse for Strategic Partnership
December 18, 2024
Aardman director Åsa Lucander, whose warm and approachable animation styles are on full display here and here, reteams with BBC’s venerable kids’ show Blue Peter, for a new short film about the power of childhood imagination. [Watch]
Following up last summer’s atmospheric teaser for his new sci-fi IP Parallel, Toronto designer/animator Oscar Mar just dropped us his first full trailer for the franchise that includes a trading card game, comics, and short films. [Watch]
CG specialists Atelier Ostal in Toulouse, France, just landed on the Stash radar with their submission of this sleek and minimal spot produced in concert with Paris-based composer and sound designer Ugo Pignal. [Watch]
New York creative content house Hero Studios and Barcelona animator/AD Germán Di Ciccio add visual insights to a Radiolab podcast “about music, memory, and what it means to be human” by exploring the phenomenon of musical hallucinations. [Watch]
Director/CD Benoit Challand at Magnane in Lyon, France: “We were invited to create the hero film and key visuals for the Nano X, one of the most popular products from Ledger, a trusted maker of hardware crypto wallets. [Watch]
ECD Ingi Erlingsson and the design/animation team at Golden Wolf wrangle a parliament of owls into a dramatic action/fantasy in their latest for Moonbirds, the 10,000-piece NFT collection of digital avatars created by PROOF. [Watch]
From the team at Tigrelab in Barcelona: “Brutal Shadow is an explorative CG short film where light and shadow take center stage to explore architectural form and atmosphere through 12 iconic brutalist buildings.” [Watch]
Fifteen years into his career, Montreal freelance 3D artist/motion designer Guillaume Combeaud continues to declare his love for the medium with a series of passion projects. This sleek, near-future Nike spec spot is his latest. [Watch]
Kaleidoscopic product shots, dynamic typography, and a cross-section of happy humans flow into one impossible-to-ignore 30-second brand film for Smirnoff, courtesy of the design and motion crew at ManvsMachine thru McCann New York. [Watch]
Reteaming with agency Across The Pond, the design and motion crew at Art&Graft in London combine a prismatic graphic treatment with illustration, and bold type to elevate their newest AI explainer for Google. [Watch]
Intermixing the expected action sequences with a surprisingly emotional coming-of-age story, directors CRCR and Paris animation house WIZZ set the tone for Riot’s 2023 Valorant Championship that got underway on August 6 in LA. [Watch]
With the third chapter in their Bend Reality short film series, the crew at Barcelona’s Drasik Studio deploy anime and glitchy underground animation styles for an action/fantasy look at the concept of brotherhood. [Watch]
Vancouver prodco The Heist and Montreal director/designers Sebastien Camden and Vincent Raineri unite their many talents for a manic multi-technique ode to commercial creativity and the pressurized quest for the big idea. [Watch]
Guido Ekker, aka VFX supervisor and director at The Panics in Amsterdam, unveils Adidas’ new ALTS web3 loyalty concept, mixing motion-capture, hand-held cameras, and a cyber-punk vibe into a pair of gritty, neon-infused films. [Watch]
