Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
From the team at BOL in Barcelona: “Retrogame Issues takes us back to a decade of big hair, saturated colors, 8-bits, local arcades, and when setting up a new video game required MacGyver-like skills.”
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Director Robert Petrie leads Preymaker’s cloud-based team of 30 artists and animators on a seven-minute family friendly sci-fi adventure made in real-time with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. [Watch]
Venerable British soap opera Emmerdale celebrates 50 years on air with this ambitious promo for an anniversary episode featuring 3D-scanned/printed figures of the cast with VFX and post by London studio Coffee & TV. [Watch]
Yves Geleyn rescues a scarecrow character (designed by fellow Hornet director Renaud Lavency) from the failed pitch graveyard with the addition of expressive choreography by animator Matt Corsillo. [Watch]
Imaginary Forces, whose body of motion work is both deep (founded in 1996) and widely influential, continues to innovate with this latest design work for a Google docuseries taking viewers behind the scenes with the company’s hackers. [Watch]
Director/animator Kim Haeun in Seoul, South Korea: “In this personal film, I branded a perfume sold by Miu Miu, focusing on the brand slogan, ‘My imaginary friend and ideal design I dreamed of as a child.’ [Watch]
CDs Alexandre Torres, Nidia Dias, Tom Crate, and director Adam Brandon lead the Tendril crew in crafting a powerful identity, motion branding system, and toolkit for Riot Worlds 2022, the annual global championships for League of Legends. [Watch]
Detroit motion studio Hobbes brings carefully crafted typography to the night sky with the design and programming of their aptly named Aerial font family designed specifically for drone shows. [Watch]
The mobile version of Tencent Game’s multiplayer online first-person shooter Assault Fire, launches with a trailer full of atmosphere, grit, and glitchy CG surprises courtesy of director Somei Sun and his design/animation crew. [Watch]
Following up on their bright and playful work for the Sonos Roam portable smart speaker, the crew at FutureDeluxe just dropped a darker and more mysterious treatment for the audio brand’s new wireless subwoofer. [Watch]
Vega, our favorite flatulent bovine, is back with a vegan solution to food poverty in this new animated spot from Studio AKA director Kristian Andrews for US non-profit Climate Healers. [Watch]
Berlin VFX boutique bEpic just popped onto the Stash radar with their post work on this flight of fancy for Volvo Trucks directed by Daniel Warwick at Business Club Royale thru agency Forsman & Bodenfors. [Watch]
Merging the obsessive craftsmanship of luxury timepieces with the adrenaline of Formula 1 racing, the team at Frame in Copenhagen drop a vibrant CG stunner for TAG Heuer. [Watch]
With Buenos Aries animation house 2veinte recently signed to the roster, Barcelona prodco Bol takes on an epic anime-tinted mystery adventure highlighting the release of three new Adidas x Real Madrid jerseys. [Watch]
