Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
The all-London team of creative studio Posthuman and agency INVNT illuminate the ambitious partnership between Ferrari’s Formula One racing division and Santander Bank to become carbon neutral by 2030. [Watch]
Director/animator/illustrator Rodrigo Goulão de Sousa, who co-directed this bitter-sweet grad film at Gobelins in 2021, just dropped a very intriguing trailer for a nightmarish animated series called Playground. [Watch]
From the team at Ditroit in Milan: “Razor-sharp reflections, contrasty silhouettes, and a strong limited color palette in our latest collaboration with Hublot. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the full version of our film.” [Watch]
Australian art and directing collective The Glue Society turns the rising cost of living on its head for British DIY/home improvement retailer B&Q with VFX and post help from Electric Theatre Collective. [Watch]
FITC, the mother of all creative technology events, hits Toronto (and online) for its 21st edition April 17-18 with a staggering array of speakers plus innovative workshops and plenty of networking opportunities. [Watch]
Lisbon-based animation studio Olga pays tribute to the resilience of the Ukrainian people in the face of ongoing tragedy with this beautifully choreographed CG interpretation of the country’s flag. [Watch]
Creative director Remy Williams and the crew at Fluent in London break out a full host of super-CG abstractions in these sequences for Amazon Fire TV, designed to mesmerize shoppers as they enter retail TV showrooms. [Watch]
Contrasting the tranquil present with the trauma of very recent (and bloody) events, the teams at Feed Me Light in London and Elastic in LA put a new spin on zombie apocalypse scenarios with this opening for Dead Island 2. [Watch]
ECD Vincent Lammers and the Amsterdam studio of Buck head up a massive, multi-technique effort to demystify who and what the software company GitHub is and raise its profile outside the traditional user base of developers. [Watch]
In direct contrast to the perilous scenarios of their 2021 spots for Dell’s Rugged laptops, the design and animation crew at Iamstatic in Toronto frame the brand’s flagship Precision 3000 Series mobile workstations in idyllic CG vignettes. [Watch]
The ongoing love affair between luxury watches and beautifully crafted CG animation continues with this dynamic and detailed product launch film from the Swiss creative collective PULK for IWC Schaffhausen. [Watch]
If you love character design and animation, you’ll find the ultimate blend of both in the incredibly diverse shorts programs just announced by the always-fabulous Pictoplasma Festival which takes over Berlin May 3–7. [Watch]
Following up on the voguing praying mantis they created in 2021 for the Nothing Ear (1) earphones, Stockholm studio Swiss International continues to push the boundaries of insect acting with a dung beetle launching the Ear (2). [Watch]
On March 23, the new HBO Max original series Only You: An Animated Shorts Collection went to air featuring eight films created by 12 underrepresented artists responding to the prompt “What’s a story only you can tell?” [Watch]
