Giles Cheetham, James Sindle, Lee Pavey and Dan Marum launch VFX-house, Electric Theatre Collective, in London

Rock Giant by The Mill. Keep Walking, Brazil!

Elastic launches a shiny new site with new work.

Hey Berlin Mographers, this animation & motion design meetup is happening next week, on Oct 18th at LEAP, Karl-Liebknechtstrasse 13.
More details go here. 

A passionate bear for Canal + Produced by 75, directed by Dutch director Matthijs van Heijningen for BETC Euro RSCG. CG by Mikros Images

Psyop makes this beautiful spot titled “Gets You Back To You” for Twining Tea.

“Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs” offers an interesting new approach to compositing. (Thanks, Ben!) Also: Check out our round-up of other interesting papers from SIGGRAPH 2011.

Carlos De Carvalho directs this haunting promo for Timber Timbre’s “Do I Have Power.” (Thanks to Dom for the tip!)

Check out the cool style of New York-based designer Jay Quercia.

Elegant work from ManvsMachine and Proud Creative  for the BT Vision rebrand. (Thanks to Kevin for the nudge.)

Wednesday, October 26 @ The Book Club in London, raise a little money and watch a few films at the Screen Social. Submit your films here.

Tonight! See No Evil presents an evening with the exceptionally amazing Proud Creative. Free entry, prizes to be won and music provided by Hear No Evil!

Mirada/Motion Theory for IBM’s “Watson MD” (credits here).

Cristiano Trindade aka Gotacx launches a new site to gander at.

Just a few days away: Two events joined at the hip — motion (October 9-11) and The Adobe Post Show (October 12-14)

Superb! The word that can describe this sweet animation done by the talented folks of Punga, for Fox Retro. You can check it out on Gabriel Fermanelli’s blog (the director for this piece) for more info.

NYC Mograph meetup Wednesday, September 28 at 8 pm @ Mary O’s (32 Ave A).

Why Not Associates make nice poetic idents for Audi. Good audiodesign/music by Black Sheep Music and Noise International. 3D animation by Chris Cousins. Agency BBH London.

There’s something oddly entertaining about watching a cute, morphing car get yelled at by an irate Chinese woman. Browse this Vimeo channel for more work directed by weareflink for VW’s People’s Car Project campaign.

AENY will meet Thursday, September 29 at 6:45 pm @ PS 41.

The awesome Electric Projected needs our support for the reboot. Check out their kickstarter page and donate what you can to keep an amazing passion project such as this alive.

Crabsalad: Skate Matra.

We’re making our way north to the Ottawa Animation Festival. Look for more coverage in the coming days. For those who can’t make it, the National Film Board of Canada has some wonderful past Ottawa films streaming online.

The future is near. Kyle McDonalds uses openFrameworks for too-smooth face substitution. See also Arturo Castro’s results.

Body architect Lucy McRae and her directorial debut for Rat vs. Possum.