The Light and BIEN Form Creative and Strategic Alliance
January 7, 2025
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]
The new Oneplus 11 concept phone and its Active CryoFlux liquid cooling system flare to life in this detailed and dramatic film crafted by a passionate CG team led by creative director Somei Sun. [Watch]
Working with an open brief from festival founder Héctor Ayuso, Framestore AD Chris Friesen and CDs Jake Cuddihy, Lawrence Jones, Brian Drucker, and Timothy Williams head up a company-wide collaboration to create a dramatic opening film for OFFF 2023. [Watch]
High fashion meets upcycled car parts in this graceful film from the Builders Club team anchoring the campaign for Hyundai’s Re:Style 2023 couture collaboration with American fashion designer Jeremy Scott. [Watch]
Alisher Akhmedov, a CG artist and 3D motion designer based in Uzbekistan, just released a notable new personal project based around London technology startup Nothing’s Phone (1) and its LED Glyph Interface. [Watch]
After watching the growth of AI in video with both curiosity and anxiety, Berlin-based director Xaver Boehm says he felt overwhelmed but decided to embrace the tools when he realized the technology was here to stay. [Watch]
Bypassing the usual formulas for design event titles, director Marcel Ziul assembles a wide variety of talents and styles for an introspective look at the stresses and strengths of emotions and their impact on our lives. [Watch]
