Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
Creative director Ezequiel Pini at Six N. Five in Barcelona: “Humans modify, adapt, and ultimately destroy what mother nature freely offered to us. Home, the earth, is all we have. It is our plan A and also, plan B.” [Watch]
How do you open a retro-future TV series about a scam selling timeshares on the moon? CD Ronnie Koff and Imaginary Forces opted for what they describe as a “hypnotic ride of apparatuses with an underlying eerie imbalance.” [Watch]
Despite boasting the longest list of VFX credits we’ve ever seen for a commercial, director Mark Jenkinson and The Mill crew keep narrative and emotion firmly in the foreground of NASCAR’s ambitious 75th anniversary film. [Watch]
The motion team at Woodwork Amsterdam captures the anticipation and intrigue of Wilson’s Airless Basketball Prototype which was introduced to fans and players IRL during the NBA All-Star game this past weekend. [Watch]
The year of the rabbit will never be the same after this rampage of impossibly happy triple-threat bunnies created by CD Nicolas Lesaffre and the crew at Nikopicto in Hong Kong for HSBC’s PayMe mobile payment service. [Watch]
Sydney 3D motion design studio MISTER sets an ominous and foreboding tone for the new Australian crime drama Last King of the Cross (based on the autobiography of nightclub owner John Ibrahim) on Paramount+. [Watch]
Given an open brief by MAKE studio to create a short film, Seattle motion designer and 3D artist Ian Frederick takes us underwater for an abstract and effervescent exploration of cell division in “Mitosis”. [Watch]
Damien Bastelica, director and co-founder at Super Dope in Portland, OR, indulges his love of coming-of-age stories and strong female characters in the studio’s latest animated short film “In Love”. [Watch]
Brothers Antonis and Stavros Fylladitis take a break from their studio’s VFX work (on ads, games, features, and TV series) for a passion project involving a certain childhood hero and a real-time production pipeline. [Watch]
With an OCD-level of attention to lighting and rendering, art director Rui Figueiredo and his studio rfvisuals in South Korea elevate YSL’s Rouge Pur Couture lipstick into an objet d’art and a virtual icon of luxury. [Watch]
Plains Of Yonder directors Katrina Crawford and Mark Bashore gather the forces of London prodco Nexus Studios and Barcelona motion house Makmac for a project they call “one giant science experiment.” [Watch]
The rebrand of Montreal digital agency Locomotive® buzzes to life in this multi-media manifesto film from local branding/motion house Baillat Studio, with custom font by typographer Mathieu Desjardins and bespoke music and sound design by DJ/producer The Holy. [Watch]
Seattle animator/illustrator Zack Lydon joins forces with the team at local micro press Zine Hug for a quick blast of Risograph-printed, heart-shaped attitude powered by a track from British producer/composer Danny L Harle. [Watch]
FLATMIND, a full-service prodco with studios in Italy and China, just danced onto the Stash radar with this massive LED installation for The Italian Cultural Institute of Shanghai called “A World of Beauty”. [Watch]
