Simon Clowes + Prologue created this beautiful, Maurice Binder inspired, title sequence for X-Men: First Class. (more insight here via Forget the Film, Watch the Titles)

Address Is Approximate … by Tom Jenkins (The Theory).

Found this rather inspiring. By South Korean entity Studio Shelter

Monarchy of Roses, an amazing collaboration between the Red Hot Chili Peppers, illustrator Raymond Pettibon and director Marc Klasfeld.

Light, a short film directed by David Parker, gives new meaning to the term “volumetric lighting.”

La maison relaunched.

PUNGA’s mind-blowing animation and designs keep getting better, this time for Nokia Smart Data.

BEELD unwraps a killer little low poly ident for Megapix.

Check out this wonderful piece of animation by Giant Ant (co-direction by Jr.canest) talking about hope, health and welfare.

This one’s about a month old, but well worth a watch. For Canal+ and agency BETC Paris, director Matthijs van Heijningen brings a bearskin rug to life … as a director. The making-of is here.

Check out the portfolio of the very talented designer Kenesha Sneed, who will be going freelance soon after working at Psyop LA.

The next Screen Social is coming up on November 23 in London. Get more info and submit your work here.

With his trademark psychedelia on full display, Saiman Chow (Blacklist) gets kooky for Ray-Ban in “Rare Prints.”

Long-time heroes MK12 post an opening animation featuring an elegantly powerful visual metaphor for the Zero Film Festival.

Dead Walter (four second-year students at Gobelins) direct this ultra-violent short film, My Bloody Lad (production: WIZZprod).

Graphical rock ‘n’ roll in the new reel by Sander van Dijk. Audio by Studio Takt.

Polynoid journeys to a fantastic and colorful center of the earth for MTV EMA 2011.

Europeans! People within convenient travelling distance to Barcelona! Don’t miss out on Broad.cat 2011, a 2-day design conference at Imagina Auditorium. Highlights include a video conference with Pablo Ferro, directly from L.A.
More details on their site.

Tuesday December 6th See No Evil presents an evening with the equally legendary Airside & Mr Bingo. Free entry, prizes, and music provided by Hear No Evil + PLUS Fred Deakin DJ set!!

Psyop rolls out a massive update!

New work from Engine for Mastercard. Directed by Simon Robson.

Finish updates.

Greg Jardin directs countless jellybeans for Kinna Grannis’ “In Your Arms” promo. Watch the making-of here. (Thanks, Dom!)

Pause Fest (Melbourne, November 7–13) is just around the corner!

NYC-ers: catch some of the characters running loose in your city at Pictoplasma NYC!