Check this trailer for an upcoming animated feature from Barcelona’s Sixbirds and their CG arm called StudioNEST. Very exciting to see this quality of work coming from outside the US, London, Paris triangle. Directed by Headless.

Watch “No Pets Allowed” trailer

Jack Black camps it up for Orange in this new UK cinema spot directed by Jeremy Konner the same guy who directed “D-Tour: A Tenacious Documentary” about another of Mr. Black’s adventures among the little people.

Watch Orange “Gullivers Travels”

Ringling students Brendan Carroll and Francesco Giroldini steal some of the CG character thunder back from the European schools with this accomplished fable of a boy with the strength to choose the right path. Music by Erez Koskas.

Watch “The Monk & The Monkey”

I have huge respect for Lawrence and his IdN magazine crew plus I’m a total sucker for super-shiny abstract geometry so finding this clip from Kultnation (Mexican motion designer Marco Vinicio Morales) waiting in the mailbox made a so-so morning a whole lot better. Sound design by Echolab

Watch Kultnation: IdN 100th Issue Project

Check Buck’s cool and fluid treatment of the :30 for Nike’s World Basketball Festival that took over Times Square and iconic NY basketball sites like Rucker Park in mid-August. Directed by Ryan Honey.

Watch Nike “World Basketball Festival”

It’s a big week for Moving Picture Company, with this fishy romp for Cadbury  coming on the heels of the head-twisting Drench spot posted below. Spots vs Stripes (www.spotsvstripes.com ) is the massive new Cadbury campaign leading up to the 2012 London Olympics.

Watch Cadbury “Spots vs Stripes”

Agency: Fallon, London, VFX: MPC, London

Seamless Rubik’s cube gag from MPC for Drench via director Ulf Johansson and CHI & Partners.

Watch Drench: Cubehead

Agency: CHI & Partners, director: Ulf Johansson, production: Smith and Jones, edit: John Smith @ The Whitehouse, VFX: MPC

Smart and stylish graphics package for “Yes We Canberra!” a satirical ABC1 program airing in the five weeks leading up to Australian 2010 Federal Election. Designer Patrick Clair and 3D artist Mick Watson: “Recent events have shown that our politicians are entirely obsessed with polling data, so it would make sense that their very own city would actually be built from the stuff.”

Watch “Yes We Canberra!” opening

Client: Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Polar Productions, design and compositing: Patrick Clair, 3D artist: Mick Watson, Music: Turning Studios

Dvein updates:
1. Introduction of the curious and monocular “Sapojo” character in an ID for SyFy (seen above), directed and animated by Dvein, music by Flow Audio.

Watch “SyFy Ident”

2. The introduction of style and taste into the pest control category via two spots for Terminix (below). Directed by Dvein, post and animation by Furia Digital, produced by Blacklist.

Watch “Terminix: Roach”