Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
Director Chet Hirsch and ECD Mike Schaeffer at The Mill spin up an enigmatic and disorienting sequence in these titles for Guillermo del Toro’s new Netflix horror anthology series Cabinet of Curiosities. [Watch]
Applying painterly machine learning techniques to CG renders, Antibody’s Raoul Marks and Patrick Clair set a menacing tone for the Amazon series The Peripheral, the first screen adaption of a William Gibson novel since the 90s. [Watch]
Le Cube director Ralph Karam channels graphic styles from comic books to 60s psychedelia in this exuberant series of spots celebrating the diversity of modern music scenes for Heineken thru BBH Singapore. [Watch]
Drawing inspiration from the work of Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, the animation team at Golden Wolf and British singer-songwriter Craig David deliver an environmental message for European rail booking platform Trainline. [Watch]
Working with illustrations by Beavertown Brewery CD Nick Dwyer, Black Dog Films director/animator Alice Bloomfield reimagines Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Rime of The Ancient Mariner” for a space-bound and hallucinogenic Halloween. [Watch]
Director/animator David Dutton, who’s 8-bit exploits include a Stranger Things recap, recruits several AI platforms to enhance live-action sequences and create “a celebration of positive change” for Julian Lennon’s “Lucky Ones”. [Watch]
Tapping into his “Domina-Rican” heritage, Brand New School creative director Andrés Rivera uses childhood memories to infuse authenticity and style into four new Café Bustelo spots celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. [Watch]
The 2022 edition of We Love Graphic Design opened earlier this month with an airy and playful title sequence by director/animator Jesper Bolther based on a visual identity by fellow Copenhagen creatives Hey Jack Studio. [Watch]
A landscape of hand-built miniature houses (inspired by real Airbnb properties) and their CG occupants come to highly-detailed life in this spot crafted by Buck and House Special for Airbnb’s AirCover travel protection. [Watch]
Swiss director Maxime Durand and Montreal art director Vincent Raineri elevate the interview-based brand film into new and visually dynamic territory for The North Face and their Summit range of mountaineering boots. [Watch]
Jeremy Dimmock, CD/partner at Polyester in Toronto: “We were commissioned by the lovely people at Toon Blast to make a trailer for their video game – an action-packed Mad Max meets Dune animation featuring the game’s hero characters, props, and icons, in an unexpected and thrilling spot with a cliff hanger ending.” [Watch]
Pleid St., the Madrid CG studio that brought us the fabulous Vlisco Garden last year, returns with more surreal visions of high fashion in this work to launch the carbon neutral leather update to Mulberry’s classic Lily handbag. [Watch]
Directing duo Mike&Payne (whose talents for gaming action are on full display here and here) link up with London studio Realtime UK on the trailer for the latest Need For Speed release complete with mocap of A$AP Rocky. [Watch]
Thanos Kagkalos (aka Motion Punk), 3D artist/motion design director in Athens: “A(n)ti was created as a promotional trailer for a Greek dance performance based on Sophocles’ play Antigone.” [Watch]
