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L’Odyssée de Cartier

Released today, a crazy 3:30 Minute piece directed by Bruno Aveillan, nearly two years in the making with a team of 50 people. Details to… Read more

FITC Amsterdam 2012 opening titles

The first time I watched these titles my sound wasn’t working, but I thought, “What the heck.” I liked it. The visual style, the transitions,… Read more

Amsterdam DNA revisited

There has been a surge of motion media on the museum-going experience as of late — which will be elaborated on in a later post… Read more

LoopdeLoop: a monthly animation challenge

Blobba blob blob by Neil Sanders, for LoopdeLoop Monsters. Recently I stumbled onto the LoopdeLoop website and fell into an internet wormhole full of cheese… Read more

Oh Yeah Wow: Gotye’s “Easy Way Out”

Oh Yeah Wow has just finished this clever music video for Gotye. Nice mix of live action and stop motion with almost no CG. The… Read more

Work/Life: kids — the results

You may remember that toward the end of last year, as part of our Work/Life series, we posted a survey asking you about motion life… Read more

Adrian Dexter: Vaesen

Adrian Dexter and a very talented team of fellow students have just completed Vaesen, their 2012 Bachelor film project for The Animation Workshop. Vaesen is… Read more

Animade Lernz

Good morning! Here’s some tiny tutorials from London-based Animade to makes you smile and enjoy the simple magic of animation. Check out the whole series… Read more

DANIELS: The Shins’ ‘Simple Song’

It’s no secret we’re thrilled by DANIELS’ storytelling and epic visuals. The duo’s new promo for The Shins’ “Simple Song” cleverly tackles an inherent music… Read more

Double G Studios: Rebranding

Double G Studios mixes up in-camera and digital effects for stunning results for both the Tate video content rebrand and STUDIOCANAL. There are even more… Read more

Glassworks & The Mill: Range Rover ‘Positively Charged’

Johnny Green (Hungryman) worked with Glassworks (on the 60″ edit) and The Mill (on the 30″ edit) create beautiful, positively charged quantum metaphors for Range… Read more

Dirty Puppet for Bulmers

Dirty Puppet delivers with a beautiful, fantastically animated graphic piece for Bulmers.

Omer Ben David: For The Remainder

After eight months of hard work, Omer Ben David’s stunning graduation project is finally ready: For The Remainder. Soundtrack by Onili.

David Kamp: Sound Creatures

Who knows what kind of creature is making those snuffling noises in the bushes just behind you. Or the animal skittering for cover under that… Read more

Collapsing Cooling Towers

Britain’s Big Six energy companies are at the center of a political storm over ethical violations and the lack of progress in moving toward green… Read more

B’Coool

Directors Carlos De Carvalho and Aude Danset De Carvalho illuminate the concrete jungle with Decathlon’s B’Twin auto-transmission urban bike,  B’CooOl.

Racecar: Kiss – A Love Story

This brilliant short film by Racecar directors – Joseph Hodgson and Franck Aubry is finally released. More information about the piece can be found here.

Maxim Zhestkov – Toca me 2012

Sci-fi / Noir open titles sequence for TOCA ME design conference. By Maxim Zhestkov & Marcelo Baldin.

Niki & The Dove – The Fox

WINTR kicks it up for Niki and The Dove with this amazing video. Apparently done completely in CG, it does have the feel of your… Read more

Super Bowl XLVI Roundup: Psyop for MetLife – “Everyone”

While we can’t speak for everybody, we were generally underwhelmed by the assemblage of usually impressive commercials to air during Super Bowl XLVI. Unquestionably, game… Read more

Ben Richardson & Daniel Bird: Seed

If you haven’t watched Seed by Daniel Bird and Ben Richardson yet, I recommend setting aside ten minutes to meditate on a surreal superstructure building… Read more

Cartoon Brew Investigates: $400 a week in NY, $1055 a week in LA

Cartoon Brew uncovers some unsettling news about wage disparity at Titmouse LA and Titmouse NYC. An excerpt: The question remains, however, about why there is… Read more

Plunk

Plunk, a multidisciplinary design studio founded by Carlos Bongiovanni and Marco Girado, has been turning out an incredible series of short films. Forces, Altars and Cage… Read more

Happycamper for China Mobile: “Wireless City”

Happycamper spent the fall of 2011 working alongside China Mobile to create an ambitious mixed-media piece in Wireless City. Using a combination of traditional model-making… Read more