Holy magic toolbelt Batman! When Adobe and Maxon announced a “strategic alliance”, I never dreamed this big. Todd Kopriva announces what’s new in the upcoming version of AE, including importing C4D files directly into AE.
 
Motionworks has a great video showing off the integration here and Chris & Trish Meyer’s write up is here.

A very well put together promo for the BBC by Pulse Films, directed by Anthony Dickenson.

NYC ACM SIGGRAPH’s 11th Annual “Industry Spotlight” presenters include Framestore, Light of Day, Mechanism Digital, The Mill, Mr. X Gotham, Psyop, The Studio and UVPHACTORY. Wednesday, April 3rd from 7:00PM to 9:00PM at FIT’s Reeves Great Hall. Details here.

Tonight! Join us for See No Evil’s 4th birthday celebrations with talks from the amazing Richard Hogg, and BAFTA winner Mikey Please!
Free entry, prizes & good times!

NYC heavy-hitter Christopher Palazzo is back on the scene with a new site and grip of top notch projects.

Stylish, minimal music video for Big Black Delta from Warren Kommers

NYC-ers! This Thursday, Mar. 28, AENY meets with a panel on the state of VFX and the larger working condition issues in VFX/mograph and ZYNC cloud render for Maya/Nuke. Register here to attend.

Check out the impressive new reel by Brice Linane – the 3D wunderkind behind much of Buck’s output from the last few years

A charming little video about turning 30 by Fabricio Lima.

The Stabilizer by Supraflux, the guys behind the Picosteady, looks incredibly promising.

Don’t we love looping animated GIFs? Well, check out this cool festival made just for them! May 31 from 9:00pm to 10:30 The Incredibly Short Film Festival in Sydney.

Ultra-violent and possibly NSFW, this first-person POV music video for Biting Elbows’ “Bad Motherfucker” has racked up 5 million views in less than 3 days. Directed by Ilya Naishuller (Great Guns) as a follow up to “Insane Office Escape.”

Join us for See No Evil’s 4th birthday celebrations with talks from the amazing Richard Hogg, and BAFTA winner Mikey Please!
Free entry, prizes & good times!

Founders Vinicius Costa, Guto Terni and Crystal Campbell have launched Roof, a new studio in NYC.

Timo Böse delivers a nice mix of stylized lifeaction memento mori and 3d in his titles for TOCA ME 2013. Making Of here.

London duo Louis & McCourt create a futuristic Anime music video for Mat Zo & Porter Robinson’s “Easy”.

Long-time favorite Stephen Kelleher updates his design portfolio with a landslide of colorful work.

It’s not secret that I am a huge fan of 90 Degrees West. Based in St Louis, this groups of creatives has been producing consistently strong, intelligent and whimsical work. Here’s another great “piece that even an industry full of adults with ADHD can sit through.” See full credits and context article here.

Typography crazy Cauboyz create this sweet, simple music video for Husbands “Dream“. Plus epic wiring in the Making Of.

The Mill Launches The Mill+
A new temp.site that showcases their soup to nuts projects as directors and designers.
Stay tuned for a full update from them soon.

São Paulo-based Consulado relaunches

Marco Iozzi has just posted an update of his latest work in visual effects design, look development, traditional photography and digital environments. Spectacular as always, including environment work for the recently posted God Of War trailer.

Cheerful and abstract with loads and loads of particles. New personal work form Joost Korngold (aka Renascent). And family project since the audio is done by his brothers.

FAUX IMAGES is back with Issue IX featuring PEDER NORRBY / TRAPCODE (STCKHLM), RAINER KOHLBERGER (BER), ONFORMATIVE (BER). Tue 19th, LEAP Berlin, Admission is free as always.

SCAD’s Professor Michael Betancourt has penned the first (that I know of) comprehensive history of motion graphics: The History of Motion Graphics: From Avant-Garde to Industry in the United States.