Quickies

Nelson Boles – Little Boat

Nelson Boles is back! His latest project, Little Boat, will put a smile on your face. I guarantee.

Jeremie Rozan – Surface to Air – Easy Like a Sunday Morning

New short by Jeremie Rozan. Sexy, and beautifully composed. Bring back those long summer days. (NSFW)

Friend launches in London

New production company Friend launches in London with a jaw-dropping roster, including Buck, Sean Pecknold, the Vikings and many more.

AENY October Meeting

AENY October Meeting, PS 41 @ 6:45 pm.

Diestro makes underwater goodness for LZF Lamps

Diestro makes underwater goodness for LZF Lamps. Audio by BSO.

October 26: NYC Mograph Meetup

October 26: NYC Mograph Meetup at Mary O’s (32 Ave. A) @ 8 pm.

Marco Iozzi

Marco Iozzi updates.

Champagne Valentine for Versace

Versace gets the Champagne Valentine treatment.

Linas Jodwalis updates with spilledkarma.com

Spilledkarma is a comprehensive overview of the VFX design, motion and photography works of Linas Jodwalis.

Holy Flying Circus titles

Check out the behind-the-scenes and rough cut of the title sequence, directed by Jim Le Fevre, for the forthcoming Holy Flying Circus.

The Panda Rabbit

A mixture of live-action, puppetry and stop-motion has resulted in the super-cute The Panda Rabbit, by Randy D. Rosario — his debut film as a director/animator.… Read more

Plenty Updates

Plenty updates with a few new projects. My personal favorite of the bunch is the piece for Acumar Institucional.

Call for Entries: The 58th Annual Type Directors Club

Call for Entries: The 58th Annual Type Directors Club (deadline December 16th)

Spike Jonze and Olympia Le-Tan: Mourir Auprès de Toi

Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side) is a fantastic stop-motion film, the result of a collaboration between Spike Jonze and the French… Read more

Fleur & Manu: M83 “Midnight City”

Fleur and Manu create an incredibly beautiful and filmic music promo for M83. Children of the Damned circa 2011 with a beautiful soundtrack.

Copa America Rebrand

Marcel Ziul & Marcos Vaz joined forces as Superlativ to create this solid graphics package for Copa America 2011.

Electric Theatre Collective Opens Its Doors In London

Giles Cheetham, James Sindle, Lee Pavey and Dan Marum launch VFX-house, Electric Theatre Collective, in London

Keep Walking, Brazil

Rock Giant by The Mill. Keep Walking, Brazil!

Elastic – New Site New Work

  Elastic launches a shiny new site with new work.

Faux Images III

Hey Berlin Mographers, this animation & motion design meetup is happening next week, on Oct 18th at LEAP, Karl-Liebknechtstrasse 13. More details go here. 

A Passionate Bear

A passionate bear for Canal + Produced by 75, directed by Dutch director Matthijs van Heijningen for BETC Euro RSCG. CG by Mikros Images

Psyop for Twinings Tea

Psyop makes this beautiful spot titled “Gets You Back To You” for Twining Tea.

New compositing technique for inserting objects into photographs

“Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs” offers an interesting new approach to compositing. (Thanks, Ben!) Also: Check out our round-up of other interesting papers from… Read more

Carlos De Carvalho: Timber Timbre’s “Do I Have Power”

Carlos De Carvalho directs this haunting promo for Timber Timbre’s “Do I Have Power.” (Thanks to Dom for the tip!)