Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
Continuing their collaboration with Swiss cycling apparel makers ASSOS, director David Farquharson and the crew at Bolder once again weave together CG and live-action into a sleek and riveting film for the brand’s racing gear. [Watch]
UK director/designer/composer Clive Collier’s latest passion project takes us into deep space with a mysterious and immensely ambitious 10-minute teaser for a longer-form project called Black Sun. [Watch]
Nexus director Patrick Osborne, who won the Best Animated Short Film Oscar for Feast in 2014, gives us a peek at the future of animation production with this teaser for his new real-time animated series created using Unreal Engine. [Watch]
LA motion house Shapes and Forms showcase the scope of their team’s many design talents in this frenetic and inclusive in-house exercise called Shapes ID 2.0. [Watch]
Paris studio I-réel specializes in spectacular visuals for luxury brands and those talents are on full display in this new trio of CG films for Swiss watchmakers Ulysse Nardin highlighting the Moonstruck, Freak X, and Freak S models. [Watch]
Animation director/illustrator Maliboo in Barcelona: “For years I’ve been recommending or giving away Gerald Durrell’s book “My Family and Other Animals” to whoever came to me looking for a good read.” [Watch]
Before a recent jaunt to his local Department of Motor Vehicles, director/animator Doug Alberts could have just griped and complained like the rest of us but chose instead to spin the “personalities, funny smells, and paperwork” into a smile-inducing song and music video. [Watch]
Combining faux stop-motion, infographic icons, and multi-frame layouts into a quirky feel-good narrative, Latitude Du Printemps was created by six students as their grad film at Supinfocom Rubika in Valenciennes, France. [Watch]
Founded in 1969 and owned by BMW since 2000, MINI’s reputation as a fun ride has been a constant throughout its history, and with the release of these special edition models, ManvsMachine takes that playfulness to the next level. [Watch]
AD and Motion Designer Sylvain Gaussens in Paris: “The term Euphony is usually used in poetry to specify a pleasant succession of words and structures. This film is built like a melody between complexity and simplicity.” [Watch]
WIZZ director Victor Haegelin, whose stop motion talents elevated this spot for Expedia and intro’d the world to Captain 3D, puts French rapper Orelsan in the animator’s seat for his latest music video. [Watch]
An ambitious mix of stop-motion, 2D design, 3D animation, illustration, and hand-poured porridge merge into an engaging explainer by Pigeon Studio in Kraków for an eco-initiative from Polish pharmaceutical brand Polpharma. [Watch]
CD Kota Iguchi and his Tokyo creative collective CEKAI extend their relationship with Nike to the outdoors with this spectacular animated billboard perched above the Shinjuku area of Tokyo to mark Air Max Day 2022 on March 26. [Watch]
How do you convince no-nonsense industrial engineers to change the way they work? Director Nidia Dias and the Tendril design and CG crew take on that challenge with an inspiring brand film for Norwegian software makers Aize.
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