Going Deeper: Modest Mouse “Whale Song”
[…] on a music video this year and it just so happened that the band was about to release their new album and was also…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Onesize: Playground Titles
Onesize creative director Rogier Hendriks: We ended up with the idea to have two fighters on a children’s playground. Kind of a metaphor for a…
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Jon Saunders • 15 years ago
Halogen: Branding a Network from the Ground Up
[…] Brief Give us a little background on what was unique to the Halogen project. This is the first project we have seen that is…
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Dominique Elliott • 15 years ago
F5 RE:PLAY Films + Stash Short Films Vol. 1
[…] of the F5 RE:PLAY films. Never fear: Stash has swooped in to save the day. Stash 60 is a special two-disc set that includes…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Boards Summit: Day 1 Round-Up
[…] kicked off the morning after returning from a one year sabbatical. The key take-away was to take some time off and do something you’ve…
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Matt Lambert • 15 years ago
Tim Bollinger: Between
[…] and into moments stuck in time. As Tim puts it, “It’s a journey through worlds of the subconscious, allowing us to catch sinister glimpses…
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Matt Lambert • 15 years ago
Yellow Cake
Yellow Cake is a new short film by Nick Cross, an Ottawa-based animator who has worked for everyone from Nickelodeon to Spumco over the course…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
HunterGatherer’s Signature Series for Fuel
[…] John, HunterGatherer: 1. The Fuel Signature Series is pretty wide-open, allowing artists a blank canvas to express themselves and sign their own name. What…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Amautalab and Flamboyant Paradise: MTV Nitro Circus
[…] Info from Press Release Amautalab, who brought you ‘Tokyo Now’ and ‘Fernet 1882’, has teamed up with Flamboyant Paradise to bring you this series…
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Lilian Darmono • 15 years ago
Martin Allais, ARD & ZDF “Caveman”
Boolab director Martin Allais created this ingenious spot for German TV channels ARD and ZDF portraying the history of mankind (or most of it) in…
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Boca Ceravolo • 15 years ago
Lucky by EB Hu
Lucky is a film that was made for Twenty120 earlier in the year. Attentive readers may already have seen it, but it’s really too gorgeous…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Keep Your Crises Small
[…] and listened to it while working today. It’s a speech that Ed Catmull, president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios, gave…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Questioning the Freelance Dilemma
[…] from freelance visual effects artists in the industry as well as a response from one of the Employer Of Record services that now provide…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Embrace Life: PSA
Simple but touching PSA for the Sussex Safer Road Partnership encouraging everyone to buckle up. Credits Writer/Director: Daniel Cox Producer: Sarah Alexander Executive Producer: Neil…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Bob Nelson on Joining Eyeball
[…] the advertising agency is fundamentally changing somehow? What about the role of the studio? This is what’s changed, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone: media…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Blind’s Heart of Stone
[…] paintings to cut down on the CG work. We were also very disciplined about not using tricky camera movements and instead focused on a…
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Brian Gossett • 15 years ago
Blind’s Heart of Stone
“Heart of Stone” marks the second collaboration between Blind Director/Owner Chris Do and Danish rock duo The Raveonettes. To refresh your memory, their first music…
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Brian Gossett • 15 years ago
VFX Townhall Recap and Links
[…] have re-stated the obvious to those listening who want some immediate action. But it also raised some ideas which need more exploration and consensus…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Seagulls Fly “Adobe CS5 – Production Premium”
[…] The making-of reveals quite a bit of CG, but there’s also a lot of hand-made assets and references to practical effects. Why the decision…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 15 years ago
Buck: Sherwin Breakdown
[…] — This brief is one that gives you a lot of freedom with a very specified look, which can be a blessing and a…
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Jon Saunders • 14 years ago
Maxim Zhestkov “RECURSION”
[…] of this and happy to deal with it every day… and even in a dream. What were you hoping to achieve with Recursion? Recursion…
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Igor Sordokhonov • 14 years ago
Prologue for Robin Hood
Prologue’s treatment for Robin Hood is a study in patient analogue work. Ridley Scott called on the studio create Legends to open the film as…
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Jon Saunders • 14 years ago
Baby I’m Yours Q&A
Questions: How did you come up with the concept and idea for your treatment of this music video? The day me and Breakbot decided to…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 14 years ago
Hunter Gatherer: “REDU”
[…] has created what is the closest they may ever come to a public service announcement. In REDU, the humble studio assumes a civic role…
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Brandon Lori • 14 years ago