Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
Motion and concept designer João Vaz Oliveira in Lisbon: “I met David Carson in May this year at OFFF. He was already an influence on me, in terms of typography, texture, etc, but I never thought we would collaborate. [Watch]
Atlanta’s Vessel Studios have been on a 10-year mission to elevate medical animation, carefully nudging their conservative pharma agency clients toward more refined and spirited visual explanations of complex science. [Watch]
With a nod to the talents of Spanish director/artist/animator Alberto Mielgo, the team at Seoul studio Super Very More merge over-the-top action and obsessive rendering into a trailer for Krafton’s PUBG Global Championship 2022. [Watch]
Not To Scale directors, Hello Savants reflect the increasingly perilous world of cryptocurrencies in this danger-filled animated brand film for the Bittrex Global trading platform. [Watch]
Half M.T Studios, aka Miguel Ortega and Tran Ma, power up Unreal Engine 5 to craft a powerful Caine and Abel-style African fable with visual influences from the Italian cinema of Sergio Leone and Dario Argento. [Watch]
Working with Prettybird live-action director Vellas and Rodeo FX, ECD Mason Nicoll and the Digital Kitchen crew “explore the layers of fear” in The Callisto Protocol, the new sci-fi survival horror game from Striking Distance Studios. [Watch]
Working with Stink Studios and Final Frontier, Italian studio Nerdo summons their illustrative and narrative talents for this revival of seven legends from Chinese mythology for a literary initiative between Tencent and Yuewen group. [Watch]
Berlin-based directing duo Dorian & Daniel, who crafted this powerful climate change message for Erste earlier this year, take over the Austrian bank’s Christmas ad duties with a dark but hopeful stab at tyranny. [Watch]
The crew at Minneapolis studio Pixel Farm hits the hardwood to boost their hometown NBA team’s city edition branding in this vibrant film focused “on the intersection of court, culture, and community.” [Watch]
Untold Studios directors Ivo Sousa, Mark Harrison and editor James Humby layer up a fun assembly of live-action, animation, and 3D for the UK’s National Art Pass, with VFX help from London studio We Are Covert. [Watch]
Oscar-nominated Dutch animation studio Job, Joris & Marieke just released the trailer for their new kid’s show SWOP, a 12 x 10′ episode series based on their International Emmy-winning short film Kop Op. [Watch]
Produced as part of her animation studies at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany, director Bea Höller says her short film Klimax is “meant to show how unique and beautiful every woman’s body is.” [Watch]
Working with a tiny but mighty animation team, Stink director Saad Moosajee imagines a suffocating world punctuated by glimpses of dance for Grammy-nominated French singer-songwriter (and fellow director) Woodkid. [Watch]
Director Tim Burton’s first shot at television, the new Netflix series Wednesday, opens with these appropriately spooky and only occasionally kooky titles from CD Aaron Becker and the crew at Filmograph in LA. [Watch]
