Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
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]
Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning Dutch directors Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins, and Marieke Blaauw just released their latest short film, a rather dark comedy/thriller about gender conformity. [Watch]
Blinkink directing duo Stevie Gee & Essy May are back with another animated mashup for Amazon Music in this merry merger of miniatures, 2D animation, and stop motion thru Droga5 London. [Watch]
New London-based directing duo Katy Wang and Gabriel Greenough seamlessly weave 2D and 3D animation into a dreamlike celebration of the natural world for On Being, the podcast hosted by journalist and author Krista Tippett. [Watch]
Grandly atmospheric set pieces and genuinely emotional moments with the protagonist elevate this trailer crafted by director Emnet Muluget and Goodbye Kansas for Ubisoft’s upcoming action-adventure game Skull and Bones thru DDB Paris. [Watch]
