Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
Kevin McCrae, CD/founder at Revenant in Glasgow: “To celebrate our one-year anniversary as the rebranded Revenant, it was time to capture the growth and movement the studio has enjoyed under our new moniker.” [Watch]
LG Electronics has committed to boosting the careers of animation students in dramatic fashion with its first annual Wonderbox Showcase, a 3D animation competition for post-secondary students across the US. [Watch]
Directors Artem Shcherbakov and Otar Berov rally an international crew of artists and animators to rescue a failed commercial pitch and transform it into a genre-hopping tale of standing up to your greatest fears. [Watch]
Following his lock-down-inspired 2020 BLEND titles, Dutch director/animator Erwin van den IJssel returns to open the 2022 festival with both analog and digital art “that ultimately blend into something new.” [Watch]
Emmy-nominated British director/artist Em Cooper hand-animates oil paint into a surreal exploration of the space between dreaming and wakefulness for the Special Edition release of The Beatles’ “I’m Only Sleeping”. [Watch]
If you’re wondering just how far VFX production values can be pushed on low-budget passion projects then the three-man crew at LA’s Rainfall Films might just have your answer in their new nine-minute short film “Evenveil”. [Watch]
Duggee, the large and lovable dog who anchors Studio AKA’s BAFTA and EMMY-winning pre-school series Hey Duggee, leads the charge in this special episode helping make young Ukrainian arrivals to the UK feel more at home. [Watch]
The design and animation crew at The Furrow team with music/sound design studio Sanctus and the Twenty Thousand Hertz Podcast to demystify the power and creative possibilities of synthesizers. [Watch]
Inspired by Miles Davis’ own original paintings, director/animator Irina Rubina conjures a whimsical and intricate interpretation of the trumpeter’s cover of Tina Turner’s 1984 hit “What’s Love Got To Do With It”. [Watch]
A joint fashion initiative between Italian sports brand Fila and Paris label Y/Project rushes to life in this spot by director/3D artist Frederik Heyman thru Belgian prodco Bounce Rocks with post/VFX by Pixmix Studios in Antwerp. [Watch]
The FITC Web Unleashed 2022 conference opened last week in Toronto with this intense title sequence designed and animated by Colombian motion designer and self-described graphics nerd Daniel Alvarez. [Watch]
Keeping an audience’s interest for 30 seconds is tough enough, so how do you sustain their attention through a potentially very dry four-minute history of a 200-year-old financial services company? [Watch]
From the team at Tomorrow Bureau in London: “The Alpine Alpenglow was designed with both the open road and racetrack in mind. It is a concept car that embodies the design hallmarks of the brand’s upcoming models, as well as its commitment to sustainability.” [Watch]
Following up recent commercial work for Nintendo, Ubisoft, and Hermès, Eddy directing duo Faux Soleil (aka Simon Duong Van Huyen and Arthur Chaumay) animate a meditative and cinematic music video for German composer/cellist Anne Müller. [Watch]
