Catching up with some lovely concept art and backgrounds by Ian Worrel for Gravity Falls, Paranorman, and more. Make sure to check out this nice environmental clip.

Hunting with light, a nice story idea and lighting execution in Mark Wincek’s mid-year school project, Lumin.

Pingo van der Brinkloev explores C4D paper shaders with some nice loops in It’s Paper.

Great character animation and materials in this short ad for Sudafed by UK-based Sumo Science (Ed Patterson & Will Studd).

Happy Friday. Make sure someone treats you right and kick back and watch Ohji’s Keys N Krates music video for Treat Me Right.

Birdo Studio presents a Japanese-inspired kaiju Brazilian music video. (“Kaiju” is a Japanese word which literally means “strange creature”, like the ones in the movie Pacific Rim.) Mostly shot in São Paulo with a 7D, this film was animated with Flash.

Who’s making all those fun idents for FX? Oh, it’s Adam Gault Studio. Check out American Horror Story, Always Sunny S9, and The Bridge.

Samuel Blain’s graduation film “In Dreams” is a creepy catalogue of real people’s dreams.

Carl Addy and Mill+ put Roy Lichtenstein into motion for Credit Suisse.

Sharp package for Fox Life anchored in solid graphic design from Plenty.
Tip o’ the hat to Chris DiNicholas!

NY-based Mario Hugo directs a celestial music video for Coldplay’s Atlas.

Hornet’s Dan & Jason direct a set of charming animations for insurance company Oscar.

Tomorrow night! See No Evil presents an evening of inspiration with the delectable Malika Favre & Barcelona superheroes Dvein.
As with SNE tradition, we will be using our raffle to raise money for the Philippines, so bring a fat wallet!
Free entry, prizes & good times!

SculptGL is a web sculpting application, powered by WebGL and JavaScript.

Ex Psyop Director Laurent Barthelemy goes freelance and updates with an clutch of top-notch directorial work. (He also signed with prodco Hellostranger.)

Big Lazy Robot finished another short with fantastic execution and a techo-age parable.

Blur creates a terrifyingly beautiful spot for The Kraken Rum.

beeple’s provocative short film, “Transparent Machines,” posits that if we want to blame anyone for lack of privacy online, we should start with ourselves.

Sex and violence collide in fantastic fashion in this WTF-laden music video for Jackson & His Computer Band’s “G.I Jane.” Directed by Mrzyk & Moriceau with animation by Mathematic. [NSFW]

Ash Thorp has posted his staggering UI design work for Ender’s Game on his personal site.

Our Christmas special double show is almost here and boy do we have a mega line-up!
See No Evil presents an evening of inspiration with the delectable Malika Favre & Barcelona superheroes Dvein.
Free entry, prizes & good times!

Superestudio uses practical effects, macro cinematography and CG effects to great effect in their latest IDs for Nat Geo.

Fully functional, 3d workflow is coming to browser near you! Try out GL Scupt by Stéphane Ginier if you don’t believe me! Autodesk, 3d software packages will soon have similar abilities. Check out the news on Autodesk’s collaboration with other major companies to make this happen.

After a busy year, the cool folks at Váscolo have just released a new demo reel and a sweet new website. Check it out!

Recent ADC Young Gun recipient, Philip Sierzega launches a new reel. Check his site here.