From the release: Nexus and Nexus Interactive Arts are proud to announce that director and designer, GMUNK, has joined their impressive roster of talent for exclusive representation in the UK and the rest of Europe. Famed for his design work on features including TRON Legacy and highly innovative films such as multi-award winning short “BOX” […] [Watch]
Nexus director Kibwe Tavares, who you know from his excellent big fish tale “Jonah,” turns his considerable narrative talents to the financial world in this detail-packed three-minute brand film for Umpqua Bank animated by the Nexus crew and produced thru CAA Marketing. [Watch]
Take a peek at four months of intensely detailed work by Oscar-nominated stop-motion star PES and “dozens of animators and illustrators” as they recreate the evolution of Honda products with thousands of hand-rendered drawings on real live paper with pre-vis and VFX/finishing by a52. [Watch]
Actress, comic book author, film producer, and screenwriter Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation, Boston Public, The Office) is the latest CA-born celeb to undergo the “California Inspires Me” treatment in the this airy charmer from Jack Cunningham, a director/designer at Nexus in London. [Watch]
Montreal graphic designer Nicolas Ménard moved to London in 2012 to complete an MA in animation at the Royal College of Art where he created this darkly comic animated mini-masterwork called “Loop Ring Chop Drink 2014” which just completed a successful festival run. [Watch]
Nexus directors Smith & Foulkes‘ history with Honda is long and award-laden (we ran Honda “GRRR” on the cover of Stash 03 in Nov. 2004) and this latest pair of spots, which break today thru agency RPA, finds the directing duo’s signature charm and gentle humor applied to the launch of the HR-V Crossover. [Watch]
