Polymath Motion Rebrands Studio as OddBeast
September 17, 2024
For their follow-up to last year’s ambitious work for Nespresso, CG style masters FutureDeluxe team with Stockholm digital creature specialists Fable FX to create another hyper-real and coffee-centric domestic fantasy. [Watch]
Watching a cast of eccentric and wonderfully observed apartment dwellers spiraling into chaos makes this six-minute grad film by Hochschule Luzern animation students Amélie Cochet and Louis Möhrle time well spent. [Watch]
Passion Pictures director Jon Saunders digs into a mix of anime and comic book references to evolve the look he established on the Free Fire “Project Cobra” trailer in this latest blast of action for Garena’s mobile battle royale title. [Watch]
Inspired by Sylvain Tesson’s 2019 travel memoir of stalking a snow leopard in Tibet, five GOBELINS grad students craft a stark but finely textured tale of patience, polar bears, and photography. [Watch]
As part of their Find Your Force recruiting campaign, the Royal Air Force (RAF) targets a new generation of engineers with a sweeping full-CG spot directed by Ryan Dzierzek thru London agency Engine. [Watch]
UNESCO, the United Nations agency focused on “promoting world peace and security”, is now looking out for your personal online security with a Chrome browser extension called The Cookie Factory. [Watch]
Japanese cranes stand in as elegant reindeer replacements in this warm and stylish animated Christmas campaign by Parallel Studio based on illustrations by Vincent Mahé for the French luxury fashion brand Kenzo. [Watch]
Creative director Nidia Dias and the Tendril team bust out the full CG toolkit in these two contrasting launch films for the Reno6 Jin and GenZ series phones for Chinese consumer electronics giant Oppo. [Watch]
Director Pedro Conti and his design and animation crew at Flooul Animation in São Paulo, Brazil, just released their new passion project, a short film full of heart and atmosphere called Tamo Junto (Together). [Watch]
CD Sergio Saleh and the motion team at Lumbre in Buenos Aires unleash their CG talents in this intricate feast for the senses featuring the 2021 vintages from California’s Ménage à Trois winery. [Watch]
VFX supervisors Adam Droy and Pete Hodsman lead The Mill creature crew into a holiday adventure in bipolar hyena hilarity with Blur Films director Chris Balmond for Amazon Prime. [Watch]
Ross Sneddon (aka, lead motion designer at Revenant in Glasgow) just dropped us his latest personal film that he describes as a “bleak and familiar future, where instead of tackling world issues, we turn a blind eye and hide away entirely.” [Watch]
A big hit on the festival circuit, “Les Dieux Changeants” (The Changing Gods) by Italian artist/director/composer Lucio Arese weaves Chopin and the destruction of beautifully lit classical statues into three minutes of CG poetry. [Watch]
Milan-based director/animator Margherita Premuroso (also a CD for Elastic.tv) worked with Italian broadcaster RAI and the Torino Film Festival to create an unsettling and enigmatic tone for the event’s Paranormal program. [Watch]
