Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
K-hip hop meets iPad in this fully psychoactive music video for artist Jay Park directed by Kyu Ha Kim and based on illustrations by Korean webtoon artist Namon thru TBWA\Media Arts Lab Seoul. [Watch]
Swedish 3D artist/animator Sebastian Helene reteams with London director/animator The Dink on this elegant/enigmatic teaser designed to “create hype, build intrigue, and create buzz” for their upcoming NFT collection The Houses of Orbis. [Watch]
Merging original footage, 250 costumed performers, and proprietary post techniques, MJZ director Nicolai Fuglsig and London VFX shop Selected Works update a classic scene from Sylvester Stallone’s 1979 blockbuster Rocky II for UK bookmaker Ladbrokes.
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Key features of the new M-Series TVs from US consumer electronics brand VIZIO come to vivid and metaphorical life in this new spot from the design and animation team at Found in London. [Watch]
Following their collaboration on Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the Sarofsky crew reteam with the Russo brothers to package the directing duo’s Netflix spy thriller The Gray Man in hyper-detailed CG vignettes and bold typography. [Watch]
The sixth edition of the Festival of Animation Berlin goes live on August 26th, 2022 with help from a parade of wonderfully off-kilter characters in this animated trailer directed by Raman Djafari. [Watch]
In their first collaboration with UK reps Friends Electric, CD William Campbell and the Scholar crew stir up a whirlwind of 2D and 3D adrenalin for Castrol’s Edge synthetic engine oil. [Watch]
Pier Paolo, a Brazilian 3D motion designer/art director currently based in the Netherlands, just dropped us his new short film KNTC MCHNS(), a minimalist, smile-inducing experiment with fully dynamic 3D objects. [Watch]
Brussels-based director/designer Fabian Aerts continues his CG motion experiments with a metaphorical short film called Reef that looks at the balance between life and death in nature. [Watch]
Strap yourself in for 16 minutes of space-bound strangeness from Louisville artist/illustrator/animator Jordan Speer who teams with prodco’s Encyclopedia Pictura, End Cue, and Nice Try for his latest animated enigma called Sunbelly. [Watch]
Taking inspiration from both surrealist and romantic artists, the BUCK crew mix painting, 3D, live-action, and a touch of machine learning into a series of reflective vignettes for wellness brand Thorne. [Watch]
Toronto-based designer, animator, and illustrator Oscar Mar recently made the decision to forgo client work to concentrate on Parallel, a new venture built to develop sci-fi IP including a trading card game of the same name. [Watch]
With a sharp mix of abstracted macro CG and pristinely rendered product features, German design and animation studios TACTYC and Effekt-Etage launch the 2022 edition of Volkswagen’s Amarok pickup truck in a dramatic two-minute showpiece. [Watch]
Working from a script by Toronto agency Broken Heart Love Affair and backed up by VFX from Motif Studios and Tantrum, Scouts Honour director Mark Zibert condenses 4.6 billion years of history into six powerful minutes. [Watch]
