Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
Veteran UK director/designer/illustrator/animator Al Boardman mines his challenges with dyslexia and ADHD to craft a very personal and appropriately frenetic short film about the increasing “feelings of constant distraction that we all feel.” [Watch]
The ingredients of five new Louis Vuitton perfumes and their bottle (designed by architect Frank Gehry) take on a dramatic presence in new CG work from Dallas creative shop Already Been Chewed. [Watch]
Designer Miles Hellyer in Sydney: “This brand film was created to explore the beautiful wooden forms crafted by the team at Giants Orchestra. The focus for this piece was simplicity – slowly revealing the objects to bring attention to the details of the form and texture of the Kauri wood.” [Watch]
Serbian director/animator Sava Zivkovic, whose outstanding short film Irradiation is featured in the Best of Stash 2021 collection, teams with concept designer Ben Mauro to bring Mauro’s HUXLEY graphic novel to the screen. [Watch]
The all-Toronto team of director/animator Andrew Embury at Yellow Lab and agency FUSE Create craft an animated and heartfelt hero video for the Pinball Clemons Foundation and how they use donations to help disadvantaged kids. [Watch]
New work from Nexus directors Smith & Foulkes will always brighten your day and so it is with this breezy spot for the UK’s South Western Railway starring commuters Wesley Peck and Sandy C Gull thru agency St. Luke’s. [Watch]
For his latest experiment merging music and visuals, producer/musician/artist Max Cooper teams with Belgian machine learning researcher and digital artist Xander Steenbrugge to turn the words of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein into a spellbinding stream of motion art. [Watch]
Pixel Farm studio in Minneapolis gives a shout out to the magic of multiple twos on Feb 2, 2022 (auspicious in both the Chinese calendar and numerology) with an in-house project built around a digital art gallery. [Watch]
The Mill Design Studio and roster director FILFURY showcase the craftsmanship of Estée Lauder’s heavyweight, soft-close, eyeshadow packaging with “an array of rich, elegant, and textural, graphic design vignettes”. [Watch]
Feral Child, the London-based studio of animation directors Nella Addy and Rogan van den Berg, lean into their talent for offbeat design and animated fun in this “ode to Nike” in-house project. [Watch]
The latest in Psyop’s series of CG trailers for Supercell’s multiplayer online game Brawl Stars finds Super Rare (and not terribly bright) Brawler Rico falling hard for a candy vending machine. [Watch]
Amsterdam studio Part of a Bigger Plan helps Swiss bank UBS and Basel-based Fondation Beyeler answer big questions about the nature and meaning of art with a clean and kinetic collage of motion techniques. [Watch]
French studio River expands a snippet of their brilliant 2020 mock-manifesto film into a full-blown and over-the-top faux-commercial for their own imaginary perfume while gently poking at the genre’s tropes. [Watch]
Eddy director Olivier Lescot draws inspiration from Hollywood westerns, graphic novels, and classic manga into a new personal film he describes as “an exploration of immersive camera movement capturing all the essence of pure action.” [Watch]
