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Flavor Opens Half Rez Event with Puppet Madness

The Half Rez motion design event returned live to Chicago this year with a packed house and this opening from the team at Flavor who slammed together 2D, 3D, AI, VR, and mo-capped puppets into a mad visual rampage. [Watch]

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Ouri “Ossature” Music Video by Derek Branscombe

Coalescing live-action, VFX and AI-generated animation, Montreal director Derek Branscombe conjures a form of liquid dream state for DJ/producer/musician Ourielle Auvé based on her own out-of-body experiences. [Watch]

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Imaginary Forces Kicks Off Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime

Amazon Prime’s first Thursday Night Football stream went live Sept 15 with Imaginary Forces providing a fresh take on NFL game intros – a retro-flavored mix of 2D and 3D action which the studio will update for each week’s match-up. [Watch]

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Wes Cockx Explores Material You With Google Design

Brooklyn digital artist Wes Cockx investigates new ideas in texture and color for Google’s Material You unified design language with this compilation of tactile and playful CG experiments. [Watch]

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Midjourney Visualizes Literature for the Melbourne Writers Festival

The creative and production teams at TBWA\Melbourne recruit AI platform Midjourney to interpret passages from classic novels into powerful illustrations for this promotional campaign/art project for the Melbourne Writers Festival. [Watch]

Arnaud Bresson and The Mill Explore How to be “Popular” With M.I.A.

Working with deep fake specialist French Faker, Division director Arnaud Bresson and The Mill layer live-action, CG, Flame work, and motion design into an appropriately disturbing music video for British rapper M.I.A. [Watch]

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“Leap into History” with Assassin’s Creed 15th Anniversary Trailer

In a massive merger of live-action and VFX, Stink director Felix Brady teams with post houses Platige and UPP to condense 2000 years of history into 80 seconds and mark the 15th anniversary of Ubisoft’s mega franchise Assassin’s Creed. [Watch]

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Mike&Payne and Sun Creature Tease Marvel’s “Midnight Suns”

Following their collab on Legends of Runeterra in 2021, directing duo Mike Tyler and Richard Payne re-team with Danish animation masters Sun Creature on this visual blast for the Midnight Suns game from Marvel and Firaxis. [Watch]

Superunion Captures New Season for London Symphony Orchestra

London branding force Superunion work with Boston digital artist Ari Weinkle to evolve their breakout image campaign for the LSO (based on motion data of conductor Sir Simon Rattle’s baton) for the 2022/23 Season. [Watch]

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Shane Griffin Defines “Forwardism” for the BMW i7

Working with Berlin prodco AKKURAT Studios on live action and Psyop on post/VFX, director Shane Griffin conjures a series of art surprises to highlight the new all-electric BMW i7 and help define “Forwardism”. [Watch]

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XK Studio Continues Footwear Research with “XKR_002 | Protect”

CD/founders Alexa Sirbu and Lukas Vojir at XK Studio in London: “XKR_002 explores the unusual appeal of protective wear and construction site aesthetics, materialized in a series of experimental digital footwear designs.” [Watch]

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Stash 155 Records a Bright New Motion Chapter

155 issues later, the Stash Permanent Collection has never looked better as it continues to document top talent, trends, and techniques in motion design, animation, and VFX. [Watch]

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Adulting Might Suck but Titmouse has a Musical for That

LA animation powerhouse Titmouse and Wieden+Kennedy NY launch an epic Disney-adjacent extravaganza in Heinz’s quest to convince millennials that the nutrition part of adulting does not have to suck. [Watch]

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Rick and Morty Break “God of War Ragnarök” for PlayStation

Rick and Morty’s ongoing adventures into brand marketing continue as the Adult Swim stars take on the roles of Kratos and Atreus for this note-perfect God of War Ragnarök game promo. [Watch]