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Animation Hub Catches “The Last Train”
“The Last Train” is a collaborative project from the staff and students at the Irish School of Animation at the Ballyfermot College of Further Education and Trinity College’s Graphics Visual and Visualisation Group, as well as the new studioGiant Creative, founded by recent Ballyfermot grads. The film was assembled over a three month period with [...]
Continue reading...Flawless Beauty 101 with Scarlett
17. May 2011
NY studio Scarlett specializes in “beauty” work and demonstrate just how much difference their skills make to the finished piece with this revealing case study of a recent Neiman Marcus spot. The piece was color graded and retouched on Flame by in-house artist Luc Job. Gotta love the over-the-top irony of the Bruno Mars track [...]
Continue reading...Up Close and Personal with a Killer
9. May 2011
Another bit of motion magic from Glassworks, this time via their Amsterdam studio thru Belgian agency Openhere. Glassworks 3D artist Markus Lauterbach: “The challenge for me was to get as much detail as possible into a very shallow depth of field. I used hi-res textures of real baby skin to cover our model, added some [...]
Continue reading...Studio aka Takes A Morning Stroll
9. May 2011
Studio aka in London teases us with the release of a trailer for their new self-funded short directed by Grant Orchard and loosely based on a real life event recounted in Paul Auster’s book ‘True Tales of American Life.” Studio aka CD Philip Hunt: “Grant was looking to do a quick project as a break [...]
Continue reading...Tokyoplastic’s Need for Speed
9. May 2011
UK directing duo tokyoplastic (Sam Lanyon Jones and Drew Cope) are back with some nice character work via London’s Picasso Pictures. Watch MTS “Training”
Continue reading...Zink’s New Twist on Space
9. May 2011
Canada’s sci-fi channel fortifies its image with a pair of surreal and grandly scaled IDs from Toronto animation and design shop Zink. Watch Space ID’s x 2
Continue reading...Old Spice Jungle Carnage from The Mill
9. May 2011
Tim Godsall of Biscuit and W+K Portland are back with another ridiculous single shot TVC for Old Spice. Navigating rainforest peril and a pair of CG skeleton legs the team at The Mill used the full gamut of post magic. According to The Mill’s Lead 2D artist Giles Cheetham, “It’s a classic VFX shot, it has a [...]
Continue reading...Candeland Dives into Jack Daniels
9. May 2011
Passion Pictures NYC studio has been buzzing along under the radar for a couple years but that all changes today with the release of this full-CG spot for Jack Daniel’s first entry into the flavored booze wars called “Tennessee Honey.” Director Pete Candeland: “This was a fantastic project to kick-start our New York studio. The [...]
Continue reading...Dvein Sees Your World Differently
16. March 2011
Dvein – Barcelona’s masters of photo-real magic – just released this relaunch clip for Spanish and Portuguese documentary channel Odisea. “The aim was to take advantage of the semantic richness that ‘documentary’ implies: adventure, experiment, discovery… We tried to link all these with the channel’s logo, inspired in the natural organic world (conches, constellations, whirls) [...]
Continue reading...Bitteschön.tv
16. March 2011
Bitteschön.tv humbly describes itself as “a studio in Berlin, Germany, that likes to illustrate and animate the world.” True, but as the execution of these two shorts by director/animator Alexander Gellner demonstrates, they view the world in their own unhinged and unhindered way. Watch “One Minute Puberty” and “Maniman” http://www.bitteschoen.tv/
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3. November 2011
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