The Light and BIEN Form Creative and Strategic Alliance
January 7, 2025
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]
Australian director/animator/cartoonist and musician Felix Colgrave just unleashed his latest test of your cranial integrity, a whimsical and musical exploration of “ocean plastic, avatars, and adaptive bottom feeders”. [Watch]
Radical Media director Tarsem Singh and Framestore’s NY VFX crew added a hint of Monty Python to Super Bowl LVII with the debut spot for US cybersecurity company CrowdStrike (seen here in the extended 60-second version). [Watch]
Maciej Kuciara and Emily Yang (aka pplpleasr), cofounders and artists at web3 content studio Shibuya take the lead in directing this riveting visual amalgam of anime and AI for the Linkin Park track “Lost”. [Watch]
Nexus Studios director Fx Goby and Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett are back at it with a new music video that merges the animated quartet with pyrotechnics and prosthetics into a creepy/comic slice of fun. [Watch]
Smuggler director Aoife McArdle and London VFX/post house Black Kite Studios help a confused Adam Driver figure out “The Singularity” in this extended 90-second version of Squarespace’s 2023 Super Bowl spot. [Watch]
EA’s new monster-hunting role-playing game Wild Hearts launches with this spectacular full-throttle CG trailer, a massive effort from Mill+ director Morten Vinther and the animation and creature crews at The Mill studios in Shanghai, Bangalore, London, and LA. [Watch]
