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Smith & Foulkes: Sims 3
Two :30s from Nexus’ dynamic duo Smith & Foulkes for the release of the latest Sims revamp from EA. The majority of the characters and sets were designed using the new in-game software. Co-director Alan Smith: “The idea was simply to bring a bit of epic cinematic silliness into the lives of the Sims as [...]
Continue reading...Woof Wan-Bau Makes the Screaming Stop
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Nexus director Woof Wan-Bau combines live action and stop motion to spin one of the best (unintentional) birth control ads in a long time. Woof Wan-Bau: “Shooting a combination of stop-frame and live action with a gang of very young children in two days was a tall order. Maybe it was the fact that we [...]
Continue reading...Smith & Foulkes “Sing-A-Long” for Comcast
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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Nexus directors Smith & Foulkes (just back from the Oscars) continue their tradition of smart, grandly-scaled and smile-inducing productions with a series of isometric 3d/2d clips for Comcast. Smith and Foulkes: “With the music as our starting point we thought it would be fun to create a world where the whole community lives to the [...]
Continue reading...Smith & Foulkes “Avatar” for Coke
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Nexus helming duo Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes will stroll the red carpet at the Oscars on Feb 22 and have an excellent chance of taking home the hardware for their darkly comedic CG short “This Way Up”. In the meantime, they continue to create charming character work like their recent UK traffic safety campaign [...]
Continue reading...Clemens Habicht: All Balled Up
Monday, January 19, 2009
You can file this new video for Friendly Fires’ “Skeleton Boy” under both “Minimalism” and “Never seen that before”. Director/animator Clemens Habicht first explored the idea of blowing millions of polystyrene balls around a confined black space late in 2008 in a series of concert tour visuals for CLINIC “Planetarium of the Soul”. Now he [...]
Continue reading...Smith & Foulkes: Stop, Look & Listen
Friday, January 9, 2009
This one nearly slipped by the radar. “The Boy Who Didnʼt Stop, Look & Listen” is the first installment in a three-part series for the Department for Transport THINK! Child Road Safety campaign in the UK. Leo Burnett set up the series for success by penning “Tales from the Road,” an eerie set of nursery [...]
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Monday, June 8, 2009
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