Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
Trevor Conrad at Psyop and Patrick Coffey at Tendril co-directed this fluid and frenetic anthem film from Riot Games for the 2022 global championships of their League of Legends: Wild Rift multiplayer mobile game. [Watch]
Inspired in part by the avant-garde conceptual energy of Dada, French studio Temple Caché stirs collage, animation, and 3D camera techniques into a psychedelic experiment for Barcelona-based music duo O’o. [Watch]
Director Will Adams and the animation/VFX team at Goodbye Kansas dig into Unreal Engine 5 (complemented by Maya and Houdini) to create this trailer for F1 Manager 2022, the racing management simulation game from Frontier Development. [Watch]
The Roam, a colorful mini-monolithic portable smart speaker from Sonos, takes on a playful personality capable of enhancing its environment in this new CG film from the design and animation team at FutureDeluxe. [Watch]
Division director Francois Rousselet and the CG animation team at Electric Theatre Collective obviously had a blast pushing the zoetrope to new levels of complexity in this ode to excess for Pharrell Williams and friends. [Watch]
Morphine, the motion studio based in Montevideo, Uruguay, which was part of the wonderful “Mate?” collaboration project, just released this luminescent explainer/brand film for Israeli autonomous technology company Seamless Vision. [Watch]
Designer/director Douglas Bowden (aka Pandayoghurt) in London: “The task was to create a short reveal film for the new Audi E-tron. We wanted to explore what happens in the moment when an object is revealed and how the process of revealing an object can inform the entire aesthetic. [Watch]
Magic: The Gathering card set releases are seismic events in the world of fantasy role-playing games, and this new trailer from CD Tosh Kodama and the Imaginary Forces crew marks the occasion with appropriate drama and gravitas. [Watch]
Nexus directors Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes return to Center Court at Wimbledon, following up their “Take On History” spot with an animated epic starring Emma Raducanu, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Serena Williams. [Watch]
Director/animators Mariusz Becker and Philip Lück at WOUQ in Germany: “Tylko approached us to help them out with their new social media campaign, focusing on their custom and perfect fitting furniture made just for your personal space.” [Watch]
Best known for his VFX-emboldened commercials and music videos, star director Ian Pons Jewell corrals a team of 2D animators in a passion project for New Zealand non-profit 4 Day Week Global thru UK agency MOX. [Watch]
In their latest investigation of commonplace objects and processes, creative director Igor Sordokhonov and the Media.Work team deconstruct the elements and aesthetics of personal beauty products. [Watch]
Enigmatic, minimal, and sweeping in scale, “OXO” is the latest music video by Estonian studio Tolm for musician/composer Janek Murd and shares a certain austere playfulness with their previous collaboration ‘AVA’ from late 2021. [Watch]
Director Tom Teller and his animation and post crew at Frame 48 in LA, conjure a dystopian uprising of freerunning civilians for English rockers Muse and their track “Will of the People” off the upcoming album of the same name. [Watch]
