ASSOS RSR Targa Superskin

Continuing their collaboration with Swiss cycling apparel makers ASSOS, director David Farquharson and the crew at Bolder in Brighton once again weave together CG and live-action into a sleek and riveting film for the brand’s racing gear.

Porsche Mission X – Reveal Film

Porsche’s all-electric Mission X concept car (claimed to be the fastest road-legal car ever) receives an appropriately spectacular unveiling courtesy of directors Ole Peters, Axel Brötje, and the Sehsucht design and motion team.

Enigma

Paris-based director/concept designer/CG artist Mehdi Hadi unleashes his deep passion for the universe of automotive racing in this glitchy, hyper-detailed merger of 3D and motion design.

Lioness | Title Sequence

Filipe Carvalho teams with Untold Studios to set a gritty/ominous tone for Paramount’s spy thriller “Special Ops: Lioness”.

Musical Hallucinations

Visual insights to a Radiolab podcast “about music, memory, and what it means to be human” by exploring the phenomenon of musical hallucinations.

Seagrass film – The Eden Project

Don’t know who made this but like the first section.

City on Fire – Titles

New York marquees made in bold hand-written type embrace the spirit of the gritty punk rock zine culture while we referenced street flyers of the Lower East Side

OOHA drinks

Golden Wolf director/CD Stefan Falconer, serves up a series of over-the-top spots to help Coca-Cola’s new OOHA soda make noise in the crowded Thai market.

Also see https://vimeo.com/827864923

What the hell happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears

The bands tour behind the Iron Curtain secretly involved the U.S. State Department, the Nixon White House, the governments of Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland.

BONN Opening Credits

The historical TV-Show miniseries “Bonn – Alte Freunde neue Feinde” is a six-part political thriller based on true events during the tense Cold War

Scenes from an Urban Sunset

From the team at Raxo in New York: “Scenes from an Urban Sunset is a study in lighting that uses the city itself as our main character.

Candy – titles

The main title for Candy sets the table for an 80’s housewife who is turning up the heat.

Stories to be remembered

A self commissioned piece by Animagic Studios & homage to one of humanity’s most powerful tools. Our stories.

Elvis – That’s All Right

A drive in the South with a young Elvis en route to fame & fortune.

Sojasun – Vegetables with an Advanced Taste

BOL were approached to produce and advert to reflect Sojasun’s eco brand values, highlighting the unique story behind its renowned soy product.

Atlanta Hawks 17-18 Game

A fast-paced edit of graphics, images of Atlanta and the players from the Hawks Basketball team.

USA Treadstone – Redacted

A new series launch the “Redacted” promo was for the highly anticipated Treadstone series on USA Network. Produced by Spillt

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

Agitated, rough charcoal strokes reveal pieces of the image, whether it is something based in reality or one of his dreamy visions.

Minima – Giving the Blockchain back to the People

Although very technical these animators & directors had chosen to work up the conception of empowering the people. Very painterly and graceful animation.

Healthcare Video

Choosing your doctor based on healthcare outcomes.

Cereal Fluid

Episode three on scientific theories! This episode focuses on the science of sleep.

Jaguar Animation

The story is about a group of former Nazi concentration camp prisoners who are dedicated to persecuting and bringing to justice those responsible, many of whom take refuge in Franco’s Spain.

From Monografo

Funkstörung ft. Anothr – Laid Out

The music video for ‘Laid Out feat. Anothr’ is an artistic retrospective of Funkstörung’s discography. It was inspired by the colours, symbols and typography used in their cover artworks.

Institute: Opening Titles

The Panics director Erwin van den IJssel worked with theatre company Gecko to create the opening titles and end credits of their film Institute.

Pear Cider & Cigarettes

The gritty and atmospheric 35-minute opus (and the graphic novel of the same name) are based on a true story with the film garnering awards in 2016.

‘Life After’ – Compilation

CNN’s “Life After” digital video series looks at what life is like after a personal tragedy or change, from losing a spouse to declaring bankruptcy.

Election Breakdown 2020

Gradient backgrounds with flowing American motifs, VICE News’ Election Show used a solid color scheme with blockier outlining.

The Life Artois – Montage

“These charming vignettes are pulling you into a world and transition beautifully from one scene to another.”

Johnny Cash Farther Along Official Music Video

Heavily inspired by Ansel Adams, Andrew Wythe, and William Kentridge, it is as rich in allegory as it is bold in tone and texture.

The last dance – titles

A vintage, cinematic, sports-oriented feel that captured the magnitude and scope of basketball’s most powerful story.

Secret Love – titles

Love stories that were kept in the closet for a long time reflecting the history, legislation and norms of the time.

Roland Garros Tournament titles

Inspired by graphical posters from the 60’s with minimalist design, strong perspectives and a reduced color palette borrowed from the Roland Garros branding.

Velvet Buzzsaw

Minimal movie opening credits from Elastic.tv. Very painterly.

Le Stanze di ROL

Nice painterly & colourful animation to open the Torino Film Festival on the theme of the paranormal.

The Last Plaque

Nice study of life in a cityscape.

No Small Dreams – Porsche

In two new spots for Porsche thru Cramer-Krasselt, director Vincenzo Lodigiani and the crew at NYC studio Dress Code streamline a classic travel poster aesthetic into sleek and seductive arguments for stepping up your driving game.

In Other Words

A brief meeting after many years undermines a father’s world and renders his words meaningless.

Roland Tempelaar “Tenderly”

Montaged animation to a beautiful rendition of ‘Tenderly’

Ronaldinho Figure Unboxing

Working in his free time on this animation trying different techniques and styles and paying tribute to Ronaldinho.

A Family That Steals Dogs

Strange experiences and realizations lead a grieving artist to reconsider his identity and beliefs in this meditation on loss, family and mental illness.

Into the Flame

Pushed over the edge and past his breaking point, Floyd is compelled to run headlong into the unknown.

True Detective – Season 3

Antibody titles featuring double imagery with Mahershala Ali as the lead.

Jupiter’s Legacy

Antibody worked with iconic illustrator Jock to create a title sequence for Jupiter’s Legacy, the debut series of the Millarverse on Netflix.

Kendall

CureGRIN family tells their story of their daughter Kendall whose has a variant in her GRIN2D genes.

The Ghost Piper of Clanyard Bay: Fable Whisky

Hugo Cuellar was commisioned to create the first set of illustrations and animation short to accompany the release of the bottle of Fable Whisky.

Back to the Stars

A sweet story based on the real-life experience of a retired and recently widowed former Russian cosmonaut staying at a Ritz-Carlton resort in China

Lux “#IStandWithCaster” by Ralph Karam and Le Cube

The battle between South African Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya and the I.A.A.F. over her gender and ban from competition.

Tycho – Weather

Animated music video for Tycho. Fab use and accentuation of lighting.

The Danish Chair

The Danish Chair is an educational project exploring mid-20th-century Danish design through chairs.

The Online Speech Wars

Minimal, but non the less emotive animation.

Part of The Speech Wars, a project of The Atlantic, and is supported by the Charles Koch Foundation, the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, and the Fetzer Institute.

GfK’s Consumer Insights Engine

Simple design and intricate data visualization for GfK’s Consumer Insights Engine – tracking brands and consumers globally.

Rock N Rolla main title

Lots of scratches and brushstrokes in these titles.

Director: Guy Ritchie
Client: Silver Pictures

Produced at Prologue

Start-up – Titles

Nice title using shot material and very big close up animations of money and data.

World Cup “2018” by Gentleman Scholar

Lots of design/animation styles in this tribute to the World Cup 2018.

Greenpeace – There’s a monster in my kitchen

Greenpeace turns its focus to industrial meat production as the root of deforestation

DRAGOON, documentary film

Operation Dragoon (initially Operation Anvil) was the code name for the Allied invasion of Southern France on 15 August 1944.

Office Scripts in Excel Online

Who would have thought Microsoft Excel could look this elegant

Jordan – Zero to Zoom

Great comic styled animation from Goldenwolf. Love those transitions

Fixing the Foundation – Novartis

Made in collaboration with Vox Media and Novartis to explain new advances in cell and gene therapies that offer the potential to transform medicine.

The Lonely Goalkeeper

Legendary Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson reflects on a grueling and often surreal life between the goalposts.

Django Unchained Paramount Channel Promo Animation

llustrated and animated TV promo for the  Tarantino movie ‘Django Unchained’.

Watchmen Titles Montage

An interesting montage of title cards taken from the Watchmen TV series.

The Godfather of Harlem

“The Godfather of Harlem main title is an homage to the contemporaneous collages created during 1960s Harlem by African-American artist, Romare Bearden (1911-1988).

FALTER BUBBLE

FALTER cinema spot “Bubble”

Beautifully illustrated Spot for an Austrian magazine, about coming out of our social bubbles.

Is That A Fish In Your Ear? – David Bellos

“Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films to philosophy, to show why translation is at the heart of what we do and who we are.

Social (Media) Distancing

Funny and original animation to describe social media distancing without the use of digital associated elements. 

Lookin out my door – Creedance Clearwater Revival

A fully animated pre-MTV version of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Lookin Out My Door”

Sky sport ink-showcase

Fun, Dynamic and colourful smoke trail animations and sport related motion graphics.

Fox Sports MLB Graphics Toolkit

A graphic tool kit created for all of the Fox Sports Regions to customise with their own MLB teams, text and highlights.

La 1 sport

Small 3D animation that unites different types of sport in a constant shape shifting harmonised clip

BBC Sport – Formula One 2014

BBC Sport wanted to highlight the updated rules for the upcoming season of Formula One, so Red Bee asked us to design & create this trailer, featuring evolving blue-print cars integrated with race footage.

The story of coffee

Motionlab’s first passion project in almost a decade about the origins of coffee.

Airbnb – Combating Discrimination

Amazing work made by @giantantstagram for Airbnb to illustrate how the company is improving in combating discrimination.

Not My Job: How Trump Failed Us

Nice work on this passion project from AlterEgo, who felt pressed into making this by the lack of leadership in their country.

DJ shadow – Stage Mapping

I think stage mapping is a new term for providing video installations but looks cool.

Jack Ryan Titles

Nice work juxtaposing US cultural icons with military hardware.

Random42 – Medical Animation

From the showreel it looks pretty much like the gold standard in medical animation.

Don’t settle for stock

I know this scrapbook is all about motion graphics & animation but this is so well cut it deserves a mention.

Operation Infektion

-Director’s cut version of the opening sequence Operation Infektion: a series uncovering the unknown history of disinformation. You’ll never watch the news the same way. nytimes.com/2018/11/12/opinion/russia-meddling-disinformation-fake-news-elections.html

MOTOGP 2017 Titles

Mix of footage, 3D and cel-animated elements to create intense energetic bike racing titles.

by NERDO

Farewill

Gentle and friendly animation promoting a will writing service.

Okavango Blue diamond

An ethereal post production journey with this piece to encapsulate the essence and beauty of one of the rarest and expensive diamonds known to man.

Gun Shop

Director Patrick Smith’s short film shows 2,328 firearms in rapid succession, to highlight and question America’s love of guns.

The Physics of Sorrow

This trailer from Oscar nominated short animation by Theodore Ushev, uses an encaustic technique where the paint is mixed with beeswax.

Under the Gun – Title Sequence

Main title sequence for the Stephanie Soechtig-directed, Katie Couric-produced documentary about gun control and the history of the NRA.

Ligonier Ministries

This is a short video made for Ligonier Ministries promoting their theme for next years national conference.

Paths of Hate

Short animation directed by Damian Nenow, produced by Platige Image.

Acura Parts & Service

Cool tracking and 3D schematic animation based around car parts.

Rutger Bregman on Taxes

“Rutger Bregman on Taxes” is personal project made in collaboration with Cypher.

Anxiety Empire

Different animated clips and loops for Anxiety Empire magazine’s 2020 Kickstarter campaign.

Squarepusher “Terminal Slam” by Daito Manabe

Japanese digital artist and director Daito Manabe’s latest collaboration with UK electro-master Squarepusher

Nike – Move to Zero

Baltic CG master Rimantas Lukavicius makes the case for Nike’s “Move to Zero” sustainability plan.

Casus Boloss – Animation Collection

Casus Boloss (Stories of Conflicts in english) is a web-documentary which is dealing with geo-political issues.

The last Mile

After 70 years, the Volkswagen Beetle is retiring. Say goodbye with Ren McCormack, Kevin Bacon, Andy Warhol, and Andy Cohen as the little bug drives its last mile. #TheLastMile

The world got game

Lots of painting onto stills and live action. Directed in collaboration with Ruff Mercy for the basketball world cup 2019 for DAZN creative

ITV Rugby World Cup

Great animation inserted into this ITV campaign by Golden Wolf.

The Spy titles

Beautiful title graphics to the Netflix series The Spy set in the 60ies.

The Ashes – Men & Women’s series

Lots of nice pencil and paint-strokes in these titles for Sky Sports coverage of Cricket’s 2019 Ashes Series. Also available for the Men’s: https://vimeo.com/351365553

Tales from Shift Work – WebMD

Cool blue treatment of testimony from an paramedic in Doddridge County, West Virginia.

Terramonti

Certainly an homage to the famous apple commercial and starts really well.

Signs of a stroke

Nice use of 3D stroke amongst other techniques to communicate this message.

Dupont – Thread

Follow a 3D stroke as it draws on shapes and objects. Nice work from Buck.tv.

This is the tale of Nomex & Kevlar.

MSK – Cancer – Less

Lovely abstract animation by toast.tv.

Beautiful colours and lightness of animation touches.

The Meth Project

A great series of short animations about Meth addiction from Studio AKA.

Sing Up

Studio AKA Director, Steve Small designed an array of notable characters, including our hero ‘Tone’ – who, although not yet fully developed – is encouraged to join in with the melody of his peers..

GE: An Apollo 11 story

GE employee shares her story on her direct connection to the Apollo 11 mission.

BP – Dirty Little Secret

Video about dirt build up in engines. Not sure who made this but has potential.

The Great Hack

Great title sequence & great Doc exposing the tale behind Cambridge Analytical and Facebook.

Royal Ascot

With its rich heritage, exhilarating racing and unparalleled sense of style, Royal Ascot is one of the most anticipated dates in the sporting calendar. Working with ITV Creative, Art&Graft were commissioned to create an exciting new promo to highlight their coverage of the event.

American Dynasties: The Kennedys

The six-part CNN docuseries has a title sequence directed, designed and animated by David Penn.

EDOF Infomercial

CNN Internationals content studio, Create, entrusted us with producing an inspiring animation about EDOF; a charity that works with the Red Cross, as well as nurturing and funding younger NGOs.

Produced and created by Mummu

A Postcard from London

Don’t know your Camden from your Kensington? Listen to these voices of London tell you what makes this city such a unique and iconic place to visit.

Josephine Baker’s Love for Paris

Learn about the accomplishments of Josephine Baker in this quirky animation by Culture Trip

“The Widowmaker” Documentary title sequence.

Dave Penn was invited to conceive and produce a title sequence for an Oxford Films feature documentary.

Department of Family Travel – Kids Meal

An interesting style here, mixing hand drawn animation with 3D renders

One Last Dance (Animated Short)

Told from a daughters perspective, seen through her fathers eyes. ‘One Last Dance’ explores how it felt watching her father slowly forget everything he knew.

Cable Street Collective – So We Go

A great quirky music video here from Olly Robertson for Cable street collective

The Gang – Wholly Guacamole

Some really realistic-looking anthropomorphic avocados in this quirky animation for wholly guacamole.

Sector SPDRs ETFs

Some really nice 3D popup animations integrated into live action shots here, from Martijn Hogenkamp.

Mend and Make Do – A Life-Sized Animated Short Film

Cup of tea? Come and take a seat in Lyn’s cosy front room, hear her story of love during wartime and watch as her belongings come alive with the hope, fear and humour of one spirited lady.

El Chapo – Main Title Sequence

Method Studios’ New York team recently designed the intricate opening titles for “El Chapo,” a new series from Univision and Netflix that retells the story of notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

NPSCC: Tipping the Scales

This animation created for NSPCC, sets out to explain the Tipping the Scales concept which describes the outcomes of child development.

Credits:
Produced by Fred & Eric
Producers: Jamie Pigram & Sarah Killeen
Creative Direction: Maggie Rogers
Design & Animation: FAB

Starting With Women

The goal of this animation is to bring attention to the barriers women face in gaining secure rights to land and natural resources, and in benefiting from natural resource investments and related legal and regulatory reforms, as well as showcase proven ways to address these barriers in developing country contexts.

MADD

Some great work here from ATK PLN – utilizing a variety of techniques to raise awareness of drunk driving.

It’s A Secret – Small Steps

Sometimes you make a dot, and that dot takes small steps. And sometimes, you make a whole video featuring that dot – but you’re not really allowed to say who you made it for, or even what it’s about. You might not even be able to include the voiceover, or really anything for that matter — other than the animation and sound design.This may, or may not, be one of those times.

Madam President

An exploration of the disparity and the difference that gender, regardless of party, can make.

European Parliament elections

If ideas were politicians this is how they would look like. CHOOSE WELL!

Vinyl

Manages to look low-tech and true to the retro however lots of CGI used. The story of vinyl records, designed & produced by Imaginary Forces.

Anxious Angela – LifePoint

A quirky and succinct piece of animation from IV for lifepoint health, featuring doggos.

An SPMS Story – Im Still Kenny

Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis sucks! One mans journey with the disease echoes—”I’m still here.”

VOICES: Living with Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mental illness that changes the way you think, feel, and act — and with the right treatment, it can be managed. Michelle Hammer tells her story.

WARRIOR – Main Title Sequence

50 years ago the martial arts legend Bruce Lee wrote material and pitched the idea for Warrior. In 2019, Cinemax finally brought it to life. The series creator Jonathan Tropper and his team approached Method Studios to create the opening sequence for the adrenaline-pumping new series

Western Union – Bicycle Coin

The second film in Golden Wolf’s campaign for Western Union, produced in collaboration with BBH and Stink Films.

Lullaby Theories, Episode Four: Babies & Babies & Babies

What could we learn if we discovered a parallel universe–a sister Earth? Would our twin universe exist in the same state as ours? What could we glean from it?

Segregated By Design

Examine the forgotten history of how our federal, state and local governments unconstitutionally segregated every major metropolitan area in America through law and policy.

NPR Invisibilia – The Locust Mystery

From NPR Invisibilia podcast, this animation explores the fascinating mystery of locusts and our sense of self.

#ForewarnedIsForearmed

One in four women experience domestic violence in their lifetime, but bruises and broken bones are not the only signs. #ForewarnedIsForearmed creates a new language to get girls talking about what to look out for.

Fiber & Sustainable Solutions | Promotional Video

Great work by BluBlu Studios in this animation about sustainable fiber solutions.

DELL Education

Collaborating direct with the Next Generation incubator team at Dell, PostPanic took on their challenge of telling the story of Dell’s future forecasting with regard to technology and the way we will use it within our lives.

The New Promised Land. Chapter 3.

This is the third of 3 animation videos I’ve made for a web documentary that tells the story of 5 young Syrian refugees who risked it all for a chance to start over.  Animated by Mira Ruido

URBES

A really nice animation from Squarefish – great use of textures, colour and character animation.

NPR Invisibilia – The Power of Expectations

A very interesting piece taken from the NPR Invisibilia podcast – this animation explores whether expectations can have a profound impact on our own lives.

History – Lost Gold of WWII

Some very nice maps and transitions in this teaser for the lost gold of WW2 by Roger.TV

Death-Cap Mushrooms

Most poisonous mushrooms won’t kill you—they’ll simply cause a severe headache or vomiting. Death-cap mushrooms are not like the others.

Director: Elyse Kelly
Animation director: Matt Reynolds
Editor: Dan Fipphen
Sound design/mix: Chris Mastellone

Cancer Code

The European Code Against Cancer is an initiative of the European Commission to inform people about actions they can take for themselves or their families to reduce their risk of cancer.

Beech Nut “Just Gentle Cooking”

Production company Aggressive developed a unique concept combining sunny live-action with whimsical 2d animation, eventually crafting an entire, illustrated, animation-driven Beech Nut factory set on the wooden table of a cozy, real-world kitchen.

Medifast “Your Year”

Production company Aggressive combined live action, playful hand-drawn illustration and dynamic music and sound design to create a multi-dimensional spot that brings a little whimsy into the real world.

Florida Hospital “Someday Starts Today”

This film for Florida Hospital mixes cinematic visuals and holographic CG to imagine an inspiring future of healthcare.

ADAA – Anxiety

This piece was made to promote awareness about a very serious psychological issue, Anxiety.

Sleep – Headspace

Moth collaborated with Headspace once again to promote their new Sleep feature.

Goodsoil India

Good Soil is a non-profit organization dedicated to feeding and caring for the children of India.

My Brother

Some stunning transitions in this piece by Audrey Yeo about migrant workers.

The Ministry of Muffins, Little Bites

A nice blend of styles and techniques in this little animation fo Little Muffins by Chris Kelly.

Chevy: Advanced Driving Dynamics

Watch ZL1 engineer Tony Roma and Formula Drift racer Conrad Grunewald demonstrate the latest Chevrolet Driving Dynamics technologies as they hit Willow Springs International Race Track with Corvette and Camaro.

WordPress Media Meditation

Some lovely line art and transitions in this film for wordpress by Caresse Haaser.

The New Collins English Dictionary – The Home of Living English

Explore a world of words old and new that have entered the dictionary over the years, in this animation made in celebration of Collins English Dictionary’s 13th edition release!

Engage Foundation: Explainer Video

A very friendly, crafted aesthetic achieved here in this animation for Engage Foundation by combining hand-drawn elements with 3D animation. By Rich Hinchcliffe.

Prozone: External Comms Video

Lots of plexusy goodness in this techy, data driven animation for Prozone by Rich Hinchcliffe.

PrescribeWellness – Local

Some really elegant design and transitions in this animation for Prescribe Wellness.

Open Text – The Power of Information

Some great animated data here from Tendril in this animation for Open Text about information!

Sue Ryder – Online Community and Support

Great stopmotion character-driven animation for Sue Ryder, directed by George Shelbourn

Metrus Energy

Some nice transitions in this animation for Metrus Energy by Mac Wojcik.

Body Image

Three patients discuss how IBD affects the way they view their bodies and share tips for keeping a positive outlook.

Netflix “Polar” End Titles by Worship

Polar, the Netflix action film directed by Jonas Åkerlund and based on Víctor Santos’ comic series, winds down with this arresting end credit sequence designed and produced by Toronto’s Worship studio with Tendril picking up an executive producer credit.

Bulb (Energy Company Ad) – Kelp

Bulb is the UK’s fastest growing energy company. It also happens to use 100% renewable electricity. That’s pretty nice, right?

This part of a series of films directed by myself and Joe Pelling at Blink Ink for Bulb Energy. It features the comedic talents of Tim Key and Ellie White and was written by the fine people at Anomaly.

Agency: Anomaly
Production Company: Blinkink

A Christmas message from Ashford’s Dementia Peer Support Group

Having a dementia-friendly Christmas This year, our Alzheimer’s Society Christmas message comes in the form of an animated poem, written by members of Ashford’s Dementia Support Group, who are all living with dementia.

LES MONDES DE CHAUMET – LE JAPON

Some nice watercolour illustration animation from Parallel Studios

Coca-Cola “Mural”

Time for a Coke break?

Teaming up with Psyop directors/founders Todd & Kylie, Golden Wolf designed and animated three dynamic graffiti-inspired characters, spraying their way across a city in search for the perfect thirst-quencher.

Nike – Chile NTK

To celebrate the launch of the new Chile Team Kit, Golden Wolf worked with Nike Football to create this endlessly zooming animation which was used across social media as well as in-store.

Practicus – Another way

Beautiful abstract animation that fits the concept perfectly from Golden Wolf!

Nasdaq Rewrite Tomorrow – Coffee

Some really nice technical/data driven motion graphics from We Are Royal about coffee!

Audi ‘A Day in the Life of an Audi Driver’

This is a 2.30min commercial made for Audi and BBH. Celebrating their amazing dominance of Le Mans.

About Bryn

Second in a series of shorts that combine stop frame with pixillation and stop-frame animation to introduce the University of Cardiff’s Built Environment Sustainability Training programme.

The Lion – Benjamin Scheuer

An original music video of “The Lion,” written and performed by Benjamin Scheuer (and Escapist Papers), directed by Peter Baynton.

VH1: Critics’ Choice Movie Awards

Minimal and abstract Op-Art patterns work together with large typography creating a dramatic result.

CNBC Prime

Dynamic and graphic splits of images to mix to live action.

INTRODUCING THE CARLAB

Carlab is a research lab created by the large automotive supplier Valeo, which studies future innovating car equipment.

St Juju

In Rivers Solomon’s animated short story “St. Juju,” a young woman must choose between her secure enclave and the one she loves.

Directed by: Allen Laseter

Creative Direction: The Verge

Anti-ageism – animated social campaign

Anti-ageism is a social campaign targeting Australian citizens. Its goal is to fight ageism – discrimination related to old age.

A Coke is a Coke

“A Coke tastes the same no matter who you are, what you look like, what you believe, or who you love. And more than ever, we believe that together is beautiful.”

Microsoft Icons | Brand Film

Tendril collaborated closely with the team at Microsoft to create a reveal film that captures the essence of these values—The craftsmanship of the the icons and the design thinking that went into them

Anonymous

The following is an anonymous survivor’s story from the Me Too movement

Terry

This is Terry Crews’ sexual assault survivor story.

Uncovered

Interesting mix of glitches and dots on the weekly facebook news format from C4.

Be The Ice Sculptor – Paul Goldsmith

Paul Goldsmith’s final project on the School of Motion Animation Bootcamp course.

JessicaJones

Marvel’s Jessica Jones – Main Title

Using a live action plate of paint and incorporating it onto photographs and other filmed elements, the director created a moody, painterly rendition of Jessica Jones’ New York for this Netflix series.

Strava – Year in Sport

Stink Studio’s minimal animation based on Stava’s sporting app features.

AstraZeneca

This fun animation shows how a simple blood test can help diagnose the disease and determine the right treatment plan.

Build a Bigger Business – Shopify / Tony Robbins

Some very nice 2D motion graphics mixed with live action to make for a pretty dynamic piece for Shopify

To Do List

A very nice personal project from Yanic Fridman, combining 3D and 2D motion graphics.

Meet Bixby

Some really nice technical/data motion graphics to sound in this animation from Yanic Fridman.

Project Blue Book

A great title sequence by The Other House for ‘Project Blue Book’

Rise – Hope-a-nomics

Really nice animation about rise, using a cutout textural style.

In a Nutshell

From a seed to war, from meat to love, from indifference to apocalypse. An attempt to capture the world in a nutshell.

Likeminds 2017

Dynamic motion graphics for credits with mixed media.

Families Together

A powerful and moving film telling the true story of the Pearcey family for the Princess Alice Hospice

UKTVA Lifetime of Stories

Animade’s latest project in collaboration with UKTV intricately traverses a lifetime of stories.

The Depths of the Barely Visible

An ancient letter, written at a time when beauty and hope were difficult to see in the world.

Digit

Lovely animation over live action from Digit & Ben Collier-Marsh

Introducing Trase

Trase is a supply chain transparency initiative that transforms our understanding of globally traded agricultural commodities.

Hands of the Engineer

Some really nice work from Toil, utilizing tracking, 3D models and a blueprint/techy aesthetic.

Shut Up & Dribble Main Title Sequence

Some really nice grungy, hand drawn retro treatment to basketball footage in this main title for “Shut up and dribble”

Compostable Packaging 101

This short film aims to highlight the importance of compostable materials with regards to changing the way we package goods in the future.

The Great Plastic Purge

Great animation outlining how we can all make a difference by reducing, reusing and recycling!

Data Trails: Jer Thorp

Some nice visualization of data from Peprally

Join Motionographer on Patreon: Directors Cut

For as little as $2 a month, join the motionographer Patreon community and shape Motionographer’s future!

Seton Welcome to Humancare

An impressive animation from director Elliot Lim, utilizing a paper cutout aesthetic.

CIVIL 80 // Opening Titles

Opening titles for “CIVIL 80”, a documentary TV series about the Spanish civil war. Created by Antoni Sendra AKA PODENCO – a spanish freelance director specializing in mixed media driven projects.

Nexium 24HR: What causes heartburn?

Great explainer about what causes heartburn directed by Sarah Beth Morgan.

Outside & Render

Obviously relating to a pretty small audience of Cinema 4D users but lovely nevertheless.
Here’s the second of the 2 films: https://vimeo.com/286146331
By Tomin

Motion Plus Design Paris 2018

Titles created by Niels Prayer
Character animation by Quentin Laville
Visuals & Music by Niels Prayer

BBC KNOWLEDGE 60

Some really nice transitions in this series of brand vignettes for BBC knowledge.
By WeAre17

Bo Burnham – The Me Generation

A personal project from Qais Sarhan featuring Bo Burnham’s poetic rant about our obsession with constantly sharing our lives on social media.

American Horror Story: Apocalypse Hourglass Teaser

American Horror Story: Apocalypse Hourglass Teaser.

D is for Darwin BBC Teach

One of the episodes from the animated A to Z guide for children aged 11-14 that explores and introduces a variety of religious topics.

Sausage – Animated Short Film

This is SAUSAGE, the multi award winning and Oscar long-listed animated short film, directed by Robert Grieves.

Emmy winning series, BBCs How We Got To Now

These are the original sequences animated by Robert Grieves.

The series won Outstanding Motion Design at the 2015 Emmys.

Mark of a Free Society

In todays Gig Economy, workers rights feel like a thing of the past. But 300 years ago, conditions in Britain were so extreme that death at work was commonplace. This sparked the worlds first trade unions that still fight for workers today.

Forestry Commission Scotland

This animation was commissioned by the Forestry Commission Scotland to communicate the significant contribution of forestry to the economy.

Saucony Geometry of Strong

Some great technical tracking work in this piece for Saucony.

Bentley University – By The Numbers

Lots of numbers and data in this animation for Bentley University by Toil.
Studio: Toil
Design: Michael Frederick
Animation:Joey Korenman, Conor Collier, ME

Supplies – Justin Timberlake

Rodeo FX delivered over 100 visual effects shots for Dave Meyers dystopian vision of Justin Timberlakes Supplies”.
Art Directed by Erik Gagnon.

British Gas – Smart Vision

Directed by Ian Cross and Stuart Hilton, this film combines a live action performance with 2D and 3D animation.
Commissioned by Outside Line, with additional 3D animation by Pedro Panetta.

Hidden Figures, Katherine Johnsons 98th Birthday

A nice piece of motion graphics from Moving Colour detailing highlights from the life of Katherine Johnson realised in a quirky cutout style.

Family Debit Cards

A collaborative mixed media video with real objects, stop motion animation, 2D animation and a bit of After Effects to put it all together.
Checkout the Making of video here: vimeo.com/193892290

Directed & Produced by: Beast Collective beastcollective.com/

Synthetic Biology

A visual essay exploring the future technology of synthetic biology.
By Vasil Hnatiuk

The Mouse

“The Mouse” by Slurpy Studios
An animation supporting the IICSA’s Truth Project.
by Voicing CSA with Slurpy Studios and Collage Arts
Story – Katie Steed and Phillip Lafferty, Animation – Fern Bailey, Animation Producer – Aaron Wood, Animation Director – Katie Steed, Produced by Chris Harper

Maagalim – Jane Bordeaux

Official music video for Jane Bordeaux’s ‘Maagalim’. In a forgotten old penny arcade, a wooden doll is stuck in place and time.
Producers: Uri Lotan & Yoav Shtibelman, Art Director: Ovadia Benishu

Hope For Tomorrow

A gambler, who is trapped in a life-threatening mindstate, confesses the dark story of his life on how much he lost by chasing his losses.

Written and Directed by Mantas Gr
Illustration and Animation: Mantas Gr
Music and Sound Design: Zing Audio
Audio Mastering: Dan Solovitz
Script Editor: James Nixon

Philosophy Feuds: Freud vs Jung

Sex, religion and envy how Freud and Jungs frenetic friendship tore itself apart. Directed and animated by Andrew Khosravani. Produced by Kellen Quinn.

APC /// economic, social, cultural and cultural rights

A quirky animation about human rights, featuring zebras.
Credits:
Story (based on an original script by APC): Frdric Dubois
Illustration/Animation: Macaia Studio
Sound design: Hannes Schulze
Voice: Thaddea Tsering

The Fourth Estate – Titles

Large headline type edges along US landscapes and GV’s from the show. Nice tracking and compositing job from Elastic.

There will be haters – Adidas

A great rant using big named players shot on greenscreen and collaged with lots of GFX.

Beauty in Numbers – Pi

This film explains the simplicity and the complexity of pi/3.14 in quite a beautiful way.
Director/animator: Rebecka Taule
Music: Jim Zamerski

Alcoholics Anonymous

Multiple recorded voices from AA meetings explored through hand-drawn animation.
By Buck

SPORTIA 2017 – Sports News Program Packaging

Nice 3d colourful animation with pulling and pushing assets into the scene.
By Lumbre

Japan Football title

Looks to me like a football title for Japanese or Korean channel.

Grantham – The perfect storm

By Bite&Bark – Illustrations: Lee Roberts, Ash Spurr
3D: Alex Shackleton, Richard Taylor, Nick Quayle, Alex Hilbert
Animation: Alfonso Petrovita, Nick Quayle

The Punisher – Titles

Yest another great title from Patrick Claire and his colleagues at Elastic for the Netflix TV series.

Blade Runner 2049 UI Screen graphics

Nice work from Territory Studios. Working across 15 sets, Territory delivered over 100 assets for onset playback

Audi – Speed of Light

Film on the history and future of Audi’s light technology. Lots of motion graphics and trapcode plugins.

The Night Manager

A fab mix of luxury items and warfare which has elements of James Bond titles.
Elastic
Director | Patrick Clair
Client | The Ink Factory

Nova Sport – Tennis

Lovely work from Jan Sladecko for Nova Sport

Jones Dairy Farm – How do you know who makes your food

RocketPanda worked alongside long time friends NY based Aggressive, to create two spots for Jones Dairy Farm, by bringing to life an animated rural setting on a real kitchen counter.

#MoveWithHeart

This video was created to be released and shared during American Heart Month (February) to help bring awareness to heart disease and encourage Americans to move more.

Hendrick's Gin, Escape

Great animation from Tulip’s and Chimney’s, taking something painfully ordinary like a commute to work, and giving it that extraordinary Hendricks sense of wonder.

Earn The Fern

Earn the Fern by Assembly Studios.

Swiss Fin Lab

Explainer video for Swiss Fin Lab, that promotes their ZOA service. By Explain Ninja.

Crediflux – Take Back Control

Credifux Brand Film by Gen Design Studio, featuring some great use of 3D dynamics.

Taboo VFX

Great work from BlueBolt bringing the Thames River in the Georgian period back to life.

Carlsberg Pie

A great animation for Carlsberg with lots of cutouts. By Assembly.

Dirty Money

Nice title using lots of type and texture from Elastic.
Design: Elastic, Design Director: Duncan Elms, Designers: Nadia Tzuo, Felix Soletic, Erika Bird, Luca Ionescu, Henry DeLeon, Animators: Jeffrey Jeong, Yongsub Song, Vincent Wang, EJ Kang, Peter Murphy, Steven Do, Hal Heah

The Alienist

Title sequence showing the deconstruction of Manhatten.
Design Studio: Elastic, Executive Creative Director: Angus Wall, Creative Director: Lisa Bolan, Art Director: Heidi Berg, Designer: Felix Soletic, Composite and Animation: Yongsub Song, Charles Khoury, Piero Desopo, Alex Silver, Rachel Brickel, Editor: Lauren Dellara

Tribute to Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese was given centre stage with a retrospective at the Cinmathque in Paris and a tribute to his work at the Festival Lumire in Lyon.
For the occasion, Arte commissioned Cher Ami to create five interactive illustrated articles, for which nbl oversaw the artistic direction.

Wells Fargo Transparency

Series of short adverts for US bank, Wells Fargo. Lovely textures and transitions.
Directed by We Are Royale
Creative Director: Brien Holman
Producer: Jen Beall
Art Director: Heather Aquino
Designers: Rury Lee, Jackie Doan
Character Animation: Tyler Morgan, Andrew Embury
2D Animation: Tyler Morgan, Andrew Embury, Handel Eugene
3D Animation: Patrick Clarke, Andrew Embury, Handel Eugene

Hyundai "Design"

Beautiful animation created by Han Del Eugene.

Jack Cornwell

This video is part of a series of three pieces designed to raise awareness and engage with the audiences ahead of the WWI Centenary celebrations.
Client: MOD, Produced for BFBS TV (2016)

Client – Missing

Unfortunately this little guy never saw the light of day but thought the project was too pretty to leave in the archives. The spot focused on getting internet to more people and how two thirds of the world is without access. (We removed the VO and client info) .. Enjoy!

Directed by Gunner
Illustration: Ian Sigmon
2D Animation: Nick Forshee, Ian Sigmon, Josh Jouppi
3D Animation: Nick Forshee, Josh Jouppi
Sound Design & Music: Bryan & Steve

Blue – CNN

“Blue is the world’s favourite colour”

Moth worked with CNN and Dr. James Fox to produce a film for their Colour Scope series.

The Power of Like

This film explores and meditates on the impact of a “like”. The good, the ugly, and all the conflict in between. Directed by: Andrew Vucko
Original Music & Sound Design: Cypheraudio

Netflixs Take Your Pills Title Sequence 2018

London design/vfx studio Blue Spill design title sequence for Alison Klayman’s Netflix original, Take Your Pills. More of their work @ bluespill.co.uk

Design director: Allison Brownmoore
Flame Artist: Anthony Brownmoore
Designers: Joe Nowacki, Oliver Weinfeld, Sylvain Doussa
Post Production Assistant: Anna Maros

A Good Run

A personal project from Niklas Arthurson outlining his year.

Flattr Plus

Flattr Plus will let users directly and sustainably fund content they love without reliance on ads, paywalls or paying for single articles. Simple and effective animation by Sebastianbap

AT&T Threat Manager

Lots of complex data, globes and graphs in this one. Great work from Animagic Studios.

Asana // Do Great Things Together

Asana’s got a whole new wardrobe! Giant Ant worked with them to help launch their sexy new look with a gradienty swoopy motiony extravaganza.

Client: Asana
Agency: Giant Ant
Creative Direction: Jorge Canedo Estrada & Jay Grandin
Producer: Liam Hogan
Concept Art: Jay Grandin, Jorge Canedo Estrada, Rafael Mayani & Shawn Hight
Design: Rafael Mayani
Additional Design: Jorge Canedo Estrada
Animation: Jorge Canedo Estrada, Nicholas Ferreira & Matt James
Music: CypherAudio

Panda Brand Video

Brand video made for Panda’s rebranding by Saffron Brand Consultants

Etereas / Animation Shortfilm

One dancer and a hula hoop.
Director: Daniela Villanueva, Mara Soler, Dancers: Brecken Rivara, Tiana Zoumer, Production: Csar Moheno Pl,Camera: Pamela Albarran, Music: Julian Placencia / Teen Flirt, Animation: Daniela Villanueva, Mara Soler, Alejandro Caballero, Marco Garfias, Fernando Sica, Luis Nez

Bitcoin Explained

This video explains how Bitcoin works in 3 minutes. Animated by Duncan Elms

Elspeth Beard – Riding into History

Youre 23, your hearts been broken and theres a long, hard slog of study stretching out in front of you. What do you do? For Elspeth Beard, a round-the-world trip on the back of her 1974 BMW R60/6 flat-twin motorbike proved the ultimate remedy for a wounded heart and weary head.
Animated by Joe Brooks.

CNN – What is a micro-plastic?

A excerpt from Midway: Plastic Island, a short documentary produced at CNN, designed and animated by Ignacio Osorio.

CNN Biometrics Opening Sequence

Opening sequence for a CNN mini-documentary about biometrics created by Ignacio Osorio

Our digital world is being shaped by our physical bodies. Biometrics are fast becoming the new way to identify ourselves and the industry is booming.

The LooseKeys Creative Process

A fun animation from LooseKeys on their creative process utilizing a fun line art style.

Change Makers

Commissioned by the Dutch NGO RNW Media, Change Makers is an animation film about those young women and men who live in fragile or repressive states, usually going through civil unrest and conflict.
These young people often represent the majority of their countrys population, yet they’re ignored and denied crucial information and services.

At least what I think

A personal project from Nas Alhusain detailing her observations on creativity.

Man Meets Woman

A personal project from Terrence Ginja Martinho based on the book “Man Meets Woman.”

Intel "Hype"

Production Co: Hornet
Director: Ege Soyuer
Executive Producer: Hana Shimizu
Head of Production: Sang-Jin Bae
Development Producer: Kristin Labriola
Producer: Niki DiCesare
Editor: Stephanie Andreou
Storyboard Artist: Ege Soyuer
Designer: Ege Soyuer, Austin Herman

Travel Channel Travellers Etiquette 1/5 – Interaction

A series of interstitials on the do’s and definitely do nots of travelling the world. Some quirky 2d character animation from Picnic studios

Oreo – Creation Contest – Directors Cut

Some playful hand drawn animations over live action from Gentleman Scholar.

Sophie Has a Biopsy

Created by Simon Tibbs
Client: Sandoz
Produced: Media Nerd
Sound: Media Nerd

Smart Save

A characterful explainer from Simon Tibbs integrating dynamic 3d coins into a quirky 2d world.

The New York Times – The Interpreter

Some playful, characterful cutout animation from Blink my Brain.
 

Natwest – Tomorrow Starts Today

Some nice hand drawn kinetic typography from Simon Tibbs
Client: RBS
Agency: Sapient Razorfish
Role: Animation & Illustration
Sound: OBR Studios

Icarus – Animation montage

Some great motion graphics from a documentary on the discovery of the scale of the Russian doping program.
Director: Bryan Fogel, Animations: Office of Development & Design

Water Stewardship – WWF

WWF has created a water stewardship report to help businesses assess their risks and use water stewardship steps to tackle them.
From Nice & Serious, Creative Director: Tom Tapper, Producer: Segolene Meheust, Animation Director: Luke Marsh, Design & Animation: Luke Marsh, Kirstin Smith, Sound Design: Serafima Serafimova / Audionetwork

HEAD Kore Skis

Some great 3D motion graphics from Feed Me Light
Creative Direction : Feed Me Light
Lead Creatives: Denis Bodart / Olivier Pirard
Supervisor: Olivier Pirard
Storyboarding: Denis Bodart
Previz: Ricardo David
3D Modeling, Animation, Lighting: Olivier Pirard
Mograph: Kris Cook
Compositing: Olivier Pirard
Sound/Music: Stelian Derenne

Amazon Prime – Electric Dreams

Beautiful 3D animated teaser for “Electric Dreams” coming soon on Amazon Prime. By We Are Royale.

British Army – "Emotions"

We Are Royale animate a series of five groundbreaking ads designed to expand recruitment for the British Army by directly confronting the concerns of women, gays, Muslims, and those who fear they are too emotional or physically unfit to serve.

The Last Kingdom – Titles

Loved all the series and these titles & music are really great.
Direction: Paul McDonnell
Art Direction: Hugo Moss
Design and animation: Ben Hanbury and Tamsin McGee, Illustration: Nathan McKenna, Composer: John Lunn, Client: Carnival

ICYMI: Lucky Holidays

Another stop-mo-foam monster with foxes and squirrels and a hopelessly naive snowman. Great work from the team
at Parabella.

The Game for Fame

A glitzy, quirky animation advertising ‘The Game For Fame’ by Simon Tibbs.
Animator: Simon Tibbs
Client: The Game for Fame
Role: Pre-production, Art Direction, Illustration, Animation
Music: Morgan Samuel

GTA Vice City- Pet Stuffers

A personal project from Simon Tibbs paying homage to his all time favourite GTA radio advert, featured on Vice City.

Underlying Calm – Headspace

In this quirky animation, Headspace’s co-founder, Andy Puddicombe, describes the stillness that’s present in all our minds.

CNN Colorscope | Orange

Colorscope is an award-winning series exploring our perception of color and its use across cultures one shade at a time. Orange is the colour of sunsets, budget airlines, traffic cones and protestants, but it can also be toxic!
Credits
Writer and Narrator: Dr. James Fox
Producer: Sarah-Grace Mankarious
Production Company: Nexus Studios
Director: Emmanuelle Walker
Producer: Greet Kallikorm
Production Assistant: Islay Leefe-Griffiths
Executive Producer: Chris OReilly, Charlotte Bavasso
Production Company: Nexus Studios

BBC One Christmas 2017 | The Supporting Act

BBC One’s Christmas short film – a story that illustrates the joy of a shared moment.

Stand Up To Cancer

3D animated commercial directed by Smith & Foulkes
Their world is in the grip of a lethal outbreak. A mysterious blue substance is leading to catastrophic destruction. Who is behind it all?
Its Payback Time was launched for 4Creatives campaign to promote Stand Up To Cancer.

Ant and Dec are #Feelingnuts

Lot’s of animation styles combined to create this quirky animation to raise awareness for testicular cancer. Great work from StudioAKA

Remember Its Waterproof – Dont Assume

One of 6 short films by Slurpy Studios for RIW (Remember It’s Waterproof).
Each film was created to explore a common mistake in the waterproofing process, and to show architects and builders the potential consequences of not doing it properly. They are a funny and tongue in cheek way of talking about quite a serious and technical problem.
They are designed in a 1950’s ‘UPA’ style, with strong character profiles, no straight lines and a carefully designed colour palette. The animation is fun and cartoony, with ‘rubber-hose’ limbs.

Comic Relief #FundEducation

Commissioned by Harvest Digital on behalf of Comic Relief and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), Slurpy Studios worked with Who Are They Productions to produce a short animated film piece to promote the GPE Education Campaign at the UN General Assembly.

Run The Jewels – Meowpurrdy

In conjunction with Adult Swim, Run The Jewels released a mind-altering video by esteemed cult video artist Cyriak for the albums lead track Meowpurrdy, a remix by El-P that deposits his and Killer Mikes vocal performances in the midst of a rhythmic vapor of meows, purrs, and hisses. Cyriaks visual treatment is an LSD-nightmare miasma of cat limbs and teeth fractalizing into feline Cthulu-esque monstrosities.

Bonobo : Cirrus

The music video for Bonobo’s song, “Cirrus,” is a beautifully surreal video collage created by British animator Cyriak.

Hot House

Working closely with Hot House and Duncan Elms, Robert Grieves designed and animated this exciting animated journey, showcasing what Sydney’s top online marketing agency can offer, mixing a vintage aesthetic into an info graphics environment.

TRAILER | The Great British Bake Off | Channel 4

Amazing work from Parabella and Blinkink on the trailer for The Great British Bake Off.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: The First White President

Designed and animated by Tynesha Foreman from an interview with Coates about his article in The Atlantic where he cites Gallup research to explain how tribalism and white supremacy paved the way for Trump.
Client: The Atlantic
Director/animator: Tynesha Foreman
Producer: Nicholas Pollock
Production Mangager Brian Jimenez
Senior producer: Ashley Bloom Kenny
Executive producer: Kasia Ceiplak-Mayr von Baldegg

Rooms

A great short film by Andrew D. Zimbelman
Based on the poem by Billy Collins.

Blood Road

Lovely work from these guys below following the infamous HO Chi Ming trail on mountain bikes.
Production: Red Bull Media House
Director: Nicholas Schrunk
Producer: Sandra Kuhn
Art Director : John Likens
Design + Animation: John Likens, Wesley Ebelhar
Reel music: Remains by Shlohmo

Liptons Tea from Cirque du Soleil

Swimming in tea from cirque du Soleil and the Mill.

Mailchimp // Google Ads

We had the most fun ever on this fast turn around spot for Mailchimp, introducing their Google Retargeting Ads integration! On what could have been a UI tour, they let us tell the story using Pearl, a short attention spanned feline wandering the internet in search of yarn.
Very nice animation. by Giant ant.

The Endless Scare

Great title sequence from “The Drawing Room” apparently about the U.S. government’s systematic persecution of gay and lesbian State Department employees during the Cold War.

CocoaVia Winter

Lively animation from Laundry, using black and white photographic collage elements, with overlaid colours and annotations.

Captimax Alstrom

Microfibre technology told through CGI animation

Architecture of the future – Intel

Lovely mix of live action and superimposed CGI for Intel.

Project Ellis

Your rights in the US using the 4th & 5th Amendment. Produced and Directed by: Dress Code. Lead Animator: Wes Ebelhar


World of Motion

Beautiful & minimal animation featuring the history of our forms of transport by Colin Hesterly.

Apparat

Interesting animation promoting Russian online magazine about technology, science & culture.
Motion Alexey Frukta, Design Ooli Mos, Alexey Frukta, Producer Artem Ignatyev & Audio Vasiliy Filatov

Facebook – Intellectual Rights Infringement

Buenos Aires animation and CG studio KASANA add life to the dry, intricate, but important matter of how Facebook handles intellectual property infringement on their platform.

You Asked For It

Quirky and fun cell animation over taking heads

Vibrato

Fantastic and beautiful animation by Sebastien Laudenbach for l’Opera National de Paris.

Honda "Dream Makers"

First-time directors James Allen and Mike Skrgatic at East Londons Time Based Arts combine a full compliment of their studios VFX, animation, and illustration talents into this spectacular 90-second opus for Honda thru Wieden+Kennedy.

The new Audi TV advert: React

New advert for Audi with tracking and strong atmosphere.
Artist: Faultline.

Primavera Sound James Rhodes

Animation from Bungalow revealing Rhodes a very personal musical memory from a room in a psychiatric hospital.

The Blend Is Near

Really good character animation with nice poses and attitudes according to emotions. Big fan!
Directed by Oddfellows

CNN Colorscope: Green

Nice animation. What kind of green are you?
Produced by Sarah-Grace Mankarious and design by Rafael Mayani. Commissioned by CNN International.

Lennox – Air Con

Interesting mix of 3D projected, at least appearing to be projected onto live action.
Production Company: Pecubu Productions, Inc.
Director: Andy Hall

Geffen Towers

Playful retail spot of architectural visualization for a residential tower in Tel Aviv.
3D & VFX: Yambo Studio & Yaniv Gorali.

MediaMolecule

Animated intro video for MediaMolecule’s Twitch stream combining live action with playful animation.
Animation/Direction: Dan Castro
Illustration: Rex Crowle

The Voice (Siri)

Now this is just a clever idea.
Job well done! Yonatan Tal.

Magnitude Rituals

Split screen of graphics and imagery to convey the message.
Colourful and dynamic motion graphics by Donghyun Lee.

Hate for Sale

Stylish watercolour overlays of colour in a stop-motion animated film about the world we live in.
Created for the Visible Poetry Project 2017 visiblepoetryproject.com/
Animated by Anna Eijsbouts

Pinky Toe

Joyful little animation from Mathieu Libman – which showcase a wide range of styles and techniques.

Kean Fruits

Really nice set of collaged animations from Ogilvy Pandora. Animation & production by Yell.

Nike – Webelieveinthepoweroflove

Chaotic spot for Tiscis sportswear collaboration with Nike called NikeLab x RT.
Directed by JN director Luca Finotti

Consumer Segmentation Project

Really ecletic mix of styles in these series of animations from Dutch firm PlusOne.
The names of the consumer brands have been removed but all the more intriging.

Bridging the gap

Nice little experimental animation based on posters by Ross Gunter. Animated & produced by Tiny Dog Creative using Newton Dynamics in After Effects.

BBC Education – Every Element of Wonder

BBC Education has got a beautiful promo for 2017. It mixes live action with 3d, animation… all around the periodic element table. Directed by weareflink.

4 mois 1/2 – Teaser

Nice french documentary with animated faces to keep the anonymity.
From Tabass

Google – How OnHub keeps your Wi-Fi fast

Easy to understand Google animation, with a very stylish look.
Directed by Gunner
Illustration: Ian Sigmon Nick Forshee
Animation: Marcus Bakke, Ian Sigmon, Nick Forshee

The Trolley Problem

Very cute animated film using lots of different techniques & styles. A thought experiment in ethics. Vid for TED Ed & DIRECTED BY Eoin Duffy

Audi A5

It’s just a trapcode trip of particles and CGI. Amazing. Creative Director: Ian Heartfield. Creatives: Adrian Merz, Mark Bushnell. Agency: Nexus

Google: Project Fi – Design Reel

Dots go wild. Artistic but still technical, with colour and energy. Agency: B-Reel. Creative Director: Chris Kelly Art Director: Colin Trenter

This Panda is Dancing

Sander van Dijk animates the poetry of Max Stossel. A simple concept of tracking UI and iconography to a phone done neatly.

What if Santa Forgot?

A clever idea and nice animation from Aardman for Alzheimer’s Research UK.

McDonalds Hungary

No its not a typo.
Hungarian advert for the new McD’s Cheese burger looks great. The animation, not the burger. Cooked & served Nerdo.

The Leftovers – Titles

Titles using silhouettes cut out from stills.
From Elastic and directed by Angus Wall

Wilfred – Station idents

Really cool idents from Impactist, based in Portland Oregan

MTV awards 2015

Elastic produced these idents for the annual awards, directed by Patrick Clair. Lots of anarchic looped animations.

The Daily Show GFX

TV Graphics from Troika, branding specialists.

History of our town

Nice short film, mixing animation to the live action. Love the idea of the postal card.

Soa Aids Nederland

Film for Soa Aids Nederland. Part of the campaign to raise awareness about sexually transmitted infections and HIV among people living in the Netherlands from sub-Saharan Africa, Suriname, the Dutch Antilles and Aruba.
By PlusOne

One plus One

Celebrating the demise of the smoker. Lovely animation for the Center for Disease ControlAgency: ICF International . Directed by: Melanie Dorn & Sean McClintock

SGCH – Homelessness

Director Stefan Wernik and the crew at Sydney animation studio The Magnificent Itch, produced this painterly animated film showcasing the true story of a homeless man reconnected with his family and the world thru Australian affordable housing non-profit SGCH.

Casse-croute

2D or 3D? I can’t quiet decide. A new, interesting look and shading gives a flat but intricately lit environment. Directed and animated by Bercu & Geoffrey.

Vans: 50th Anniversary

Paper cutouts, hand-drawn animation and 3D boxes all in a stop-frame slower frame rate, combine seamlessly for this black and white promotion for 50 years of Vans shoes.

The Kitchen

Paris VFX powerhouse Unit Image, Partizan director Antoine Bardou-Jacquet and agency BETC combine forces for a VFX rampage through a French kitchen to make the case for the quality of TV channels available on Canal+.
And just as good, the making of the commercial is here.

Spectacle of the Real

A suberb animated promo from Buck for David Blaine’s magic series in the US. Animated forms morph effortlessly from one thing to the next. With VO by Christopher Walken.

Unsatisfying

Parallel Studio set off an animation challenge to create the most annoying, disappointing and unsatisfying short segments. A nice use of gradients, texture and two-tone lighting add a modern twist to simple flat animations.

Unleash your Fingers

It’s at least 5 years old now but still amazes. Performance by JayFunk.
Agency : Heaven
Production : LABANDEORIGINALE

Don’t blink

Apple launches their iPhone 7 and new watch with a short 107 second summary of their conference in this video. It’s as simplistic as you’d expect from an Apple video, but always done very well. You can find out more about it’s cleverness here.

Humaine Society – Puppy Mills

This Buck video should come with a saccharine warning, as the music and small american kids talking about puppies does verge on the nauseating, but it’s a nice animation which manages to slickly combine multiple animation looks and live action in the blink of an eye.

Disney Classics

2viente recreate Disney with classic geometric shapes. Each classic film is recognisable through the animation of simple geography, and matches with a modern colour palette and nice transitions add a unusual twist to a Disney channel advert.

Thor: The Dark World

A very simple and elegant painterly end sequence from Blur Studio.

50 years of Dior Eau Sauvage

This stylish promo for Dior’s “Eau Savage” takes us back to the early 2000s, when flat-shaded CG and negative space transitions were all the rage.
Directed directed by French duo David & Oerd.

Nautilus

An inspiring piece of animation for anyone interested in a career in astrophysics. The story behind France A. Cordova’s big break into a world normally populated by men. Produced by ‘Not to Scale and directed by Colin Hesterly.

Child Marriage

The American World Jewish Service work with Gunner to produce this infographic. An illustrative approach mixed with traditional original ideas create a Buck-like feel.

The Road to Rio

Art and Graft produce another carefully design short promoting the Olympics in collaboration with the Lottery and ITV. A pleasant mix of 2D and 3D rendered seamlessly in a coherent design style.

Costa Sunglasses

Giant Ant return with another video for Costa Sunglasses, in a sunny florida setting. One simple pan, transitioning with passing elements shows a whole journey in one beautifully crafted move.

Syracuse: Yield

Dress Code create this montage video for Syracuse university, using cut up photos and video in a collage look.  The recruitment video goes past the general sunny campus video and montages voice and archive stills to create a unique video.

Memorial Sloan Kettering – Less

Beautiful interplay of 2D and 3D elements in this brand promo for Memorial Sloan Kettering directed by Ege Souyer. The impeccably elegant animations create a sense of confidence and control befitting a cancer treatment center.

Facebook at Work

Clim from Sebas & Clim fame has now gone solo and produced this nice infographic for Facebook. It’s wonderfully designed as ever but it’s the seamless integration with CGI and shot photography which sets this infographic away from the others.

San Pellegrino ‘Dining By Starlight’

Blacklist and Studio AKA create this short for San Pellegrino. A fully 3D film but with a 3D style creates a charmingly lit environment.

The Somme Centenary

Very interesting and poignant sequence on BBC screens. The Centenary of the Battle of the Somme: The Vigil Trailer – BBC Two
Creatives TBC

The Jack Garratt Story

Great animation and great story about the rise to fame of Garratt. BBC Music commissioned ‘Contra‘ to tell the tale.

Vodafone Foundation

It’s got a similar feel to the famous Apple commercial but this is a very elegant and well crafted piece about the recent cyclone that hit Fiji.
By Vincent London.

Reeps One – VR video

I’m guessing this would sound amazing with a VR headset on but it is certainly an interesting view even without one. Use the navigation to explore while the beatboxer performs.
Production: The Mill, Aurelia Soundworks
Directors: Gawain Liddiard, John Hendicott

In Plain Sight titles

A surprisingly effective sequence considering that our brains seem to suggest that there’s more there than there is.  Not sure who the creative is but will update this post when we find out.

BMW Ultimate Racetrack

This commercial was completed 2 years ago but now “the making of” film has been produced which gives us a fascinating glimpse into the whole process of shooting, animating, rotoscoping and compositing of the final commercial. Look at the original first and then check out “the making of“.
Directed by Ozan Biron
Production by The Embassy

La Effe Rebrand 2016 – Idents

The broadcast channel La Effe is not only a TV station. It’s an eclectic, multifaceted, plural and versatile way of thinking.
branded by NERDO

Ayrton Senna Institute

A brilliantly animated tale of F1 driver Senna, from Sao Paulo studio Le Cube. The film is meant as a piece of encouragement for fellow Brazillian athletes competing in this years Olympics.

Hyper-Reality

A scary futuristic vision of how augmented reality could influence our lives perhaps? Created by Keiichi Matsuda.

Coldplay 'Up & Up'

A great montage juxapositioning unusual images using a lot of old archive footage. Directed by: Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia

Organic Machines

Beautifully crafted  title sequence by Beijing visual designer Zaoeyo (aka Xiaolin Zeng, aka Mike Zeng) detailing insects constructed with glassy, organic materials.

Nespresso Mobile app

Another great piece from Quentin Baillieux (Parallel) with animation from Florent Remize. There’s a very continental retro styling here similar to the Pernod advert also on Sketchpad.

Charles X – Can You Do it

A mix of 2D and 3D animation in this stylish music video. Animation by Brunch & amazing Cinematography.

Anonimo

So this is how they make Swiss/Italian watches! A really nice animation playing on scale from Parallel. Also a great piece of sound design from Alexandre Poirier which really adds to the whole atmosphere.

William Hill

Often seen as part bumpers during football matches these William Hill adverts combine live action and lots of different styles but it’s the comic strip overlays that appeal most to me.

South Wales Metro

South Wales is getting a new metro system and Bomper studio have animated it’s proposed route through a white minimalist environment. Nice subtle animations and smooth camera moves make a technical subject a visually pleasing watch.

The New Old World

Not so keen on the CGI steam-punk book opening, but the photo manipulation using a camera mapping technique on 3D surfaces by Alexey Zakharov is interesting. More of a breakdown can be found on his behance page here.

Infinate Doom

GoldenWolf design”Infinite Doom” as an ident for Adult Swim’s Venture Bros show. An infinate zoom, simply using a series of illustrations with a straight camera pan. Nice illustrations from clever angles add interest to very straight-forward animation.

My Cambridge

Nice bit of tracking with some choice icons and trapcode work.

Race for The White House

Dave Penn directed this animation (along with Jellyfish and Sixfingers) for a six-part CNN documentary series concerned with what went on behind the scenes during key presidential campaigns in U.S. history. Sponge paint mattes provide nice transitions for cleverly laid out photographs.

The New Promised Land

Series of animated documents  made for a web documentary that tells the story of 5 young Syrian refugees who risked it all for a chance to start over. Treated stills and documents manage to sustain the long sequences.

Pernod Ricard TV

Not the newest of films here, but the designers at Parallel managed to combine actual products with collage and simple figures within a cleverly lit scene to create a unique short commercial.

Nike – Huarache V Creator

Excellent promo for Nike by ECD Jonathan Notaro and the Brand New School. It mixes drawn animation with CG elements to produce this gritty animation with a limited colour palette.

Information is precious

This is na lovely little character piece from Gorilla Gorilla! for Informa about keeping online information safe.

Samsung 837 Installation – Tech NYC

Analytical, diagrammatic video in a 3D space by Jonathan Kim.  Blueprints, lines and tech overlays provide a hi-res feel for this square installation.

Underground

Painted transitions and frames create artistic transitions for Underground, the new WGN America series. Done by Imaginary Forces.

Ronda: Fox 10 Anni

Here is another animated film with lovely characters on a simple story by Gabriel H Fermanelli.

Ultimate Fighter

One of a series of promos for Ultimate Fighter on Fox using rapid editing and splashes of hand-drawn type and scratched elements. By State Design.

The Flynn

Commercial for New York appartment blocks by Art & Graft. This strong graphic look with bright lens flares, realistic shadows and reflections and a painterly finish was created by Art and Graft and has a rare quality of equally impressive animation. Pre-Production work by Art & Graft can be found here.

Gunpowder

Small titles for Gunpowder a new advertising creative showcase. Animated in 2D and 3D using a variety of techniques by Art & Graft, they create a rich and modern title.

W Idents

Art & Graft produce a series of idents for the newly Branded W freeview TV station (formerly UKTV). Using a constant camera speed they’ve created an infinite tunnel, with a diamond matte opening between each and tracked letterforms.

NSPCC : Pete's Story

Animated by Daniel Bruson repainting every frame in watercolour and then compositing it digitally. The Animation Breakdown on vimeo illustrates his process. Deep, rich and heavily textured.

FORMS IN NATURE: Understanding Our Universe

Nice animation using the shape of a circle in all other different scene, by Chromosphere.

Tiger Beer – Wok

A great piece of work using many visual/shooting styles. Great voice-over script and sound design.
Production Company – The Sweet Shop
Director – SEGA

Prophets of Science Fiction

Ridley Scott’s promo for “Prophets of Science Fiction” has been brought to life by Prologue by tracking the graphics to the table top, transitioning to the CGI versions of his notes, in a techy intricate manner.

Winter on Fire

This title gets us up to speed quickly with the recent history of Ukriane, well at least how the story goes in the West. It’s another excellent piece of work from Patrick Claire

The Americans – Titles

Been meaning to post this one for a while. It’s from Elastic TV. A great mix of the banal and the political.

Fuel Up For Battle: The Detective

Here is another interesting video, spy stuff. Lots of overlays and tracking footage and data gives it that high-tech espionage look. By First born.

2015 Women’s World Cup

STATE Design‘s promo for the FOX Sports coverage of the 2015 Women’s World Cup in Canada featuring largely still images but animated into a superb mix with sketched lines and ink splashes and ooddles of humour.

The Wire

This is really great transitions, and nice animation.  Short film by Elliot Lim.

Spectre: UI Interface

Rushes create intricate detailed UI graphics for Bond’s computer in Spectre.

NBA March Madness 2015

Golden Media introduced a nice film mixing footage and animation.

Hide

Motion designer Christian Stangl has put this music video together for Strange Freedom´s track “Hide“ by means of thousands of single microscopic photographies, merged together, creating a dramatic timelapse scenario.

Ministry of Sound Headphones

Headphone systems might seem pretty simple to you and I but not if you look at this excellent animation from Paul Clements.

American Express: Your Business

Mixtape Club create an advert for American Express involving those little airfix kit style sets, popping each one up in to a nice conclusion for the scenes.

Lumbre

Well that’s one way to get noticed. This Argentinian branding & entertainment studio seems to have a lot to shout about.

Lincoln Continental Concept

Artistic brush strokes combined with precision lines give an impressive creative feel to this car advert. Made by Block and Tackle with a good “how it was done” interview on Motionographer.

Unilever idents

From ‘Not to Scale’ and ‘Mirari’, these really nice short animations were commissioned by Ogilvy London showcasing Unilever’s messaging around sustainability.

Tour de France

Not to Scale, New York produced these tasty idents for Skoda’s sponsorship of the race. Directed by Colin Hesterly

Inmobi – Trajectory

Monstro redefine the heavily saturated tech video with an epic galactic painted feel. Data has never felt so orange.

California Inspires Me: Rashida Jones

Nexus animator Jacking Cunningham animates the story of Rashida Jones, the actress growing up in California. The film uses flat, front, also isometric angle animation with simple pencil lines and block sun-tinted colours.

SBS Documentary

Different, almost unnoticeable take on the pop-up book idea. Nice tracking of a plane with complex CGI makes for a nice mix.

The Idea Machine

CGI model of an imaginary machine creating ideas. Bright colours and cute extras add a light charm to a heavy metal object.

HBO The Heist

MK12’s programme graphics for the Heist. Using a blueprint plan and “Catch Me If You Can” style text transitions.

Particle Fever

MK12’s work on Particle Fever, a documentary about CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the Higgs boson, and people much smarter than ourselves. It involves numerous graphics throughout the film of differing techniques.

A Kiss, Deferred

Beautiful simple animation for the New York Times by the Moth Collective.

BBC KNOWLEDGE 60

Nice animation from simple circles for BBC.
 

Engage Foundation Explainer

A mixture of 3D & 2D on this nice little animation from ‘First 10’.

Save antarctica

What seems to be a fine piece for a hypothetical project by Yu Hyeji using low poly 3D forms. Greenpeace awareness film.

Nature's Path

Beautfully designed film, with a illustrative feel but created in CGI for Nature’s Path by Burcu & Geoffrey.
 

Integrated Infrastructure Planning Tool

Nice use of cross section maps from ‘Buildmedia’.

HIAS: For Refugees

Beautiful animated film highlighting the work done by HIAS. Guided by the Jewish historical experience this organisation looks out for the plight of refugees.
Directed and Designed by Moth Collective
Produced by Sovev Media

The editor

A well crafted piece of animation and sound design.
Direction, Design, Animation – Dave Penn
Sound Design – James Locke-Hart
Script – Paddy Bird & Dave Penn

Safe and Free

Gentleman Scholar recreate the gracefulness of a large humpback whale in the freedom of a forest to promote Whale and Dolphin conservation. A technical video of some before and afters of the realistic CGI process can also be found on their site.

IBM PartnerWorld 2014

Complex messages from Sorin for IBM conference.

Telit "Internet of things"

Great little bit of motiongraphics, cgi & matchmoving by Sorin.

TSB commercials

Nice character animations and transitions using the water colour bleeds.

Fears

Nata Metlukh creates a hand-drawn short, morphing through different perspectives in colourful city environments.
 

The Prophet Official Trailer

Inspired by the classic book by Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet is an animated feature film written and directed by Roger Allers (The Lion King), with animated “chapters” from award-winning animation directors from around the world, and featuring world-class musicians, singers, and composers.

Kinder Chocolate

Passion Pictures works with the popular children’s book illustrator Oliver Jeffers to create animated advert’s for Kinder Bueno. A charming style with naive text recreate the excellence found in his stories.

Paypal Fast, Simple and Secure

Paypal’s TV advert tracks doodles around the presenter to animate ideas in a fun sketchy way. A white, clean room behind gives it an airy, light feel.

ANA "Service"

William Russell directs animated spots for ANA, using lines very cleverly and beautifully constructed. Another lines and dots style film like “Designed by Apple”, it uses flight paths as a concept to make the connections.

Soilconsweb

A very square geometric take on an infographic with a evening summers light cast over the film. A different perspective on a common film theme by Uli Henrik Streckenbach, the german animator responsible for this fishing film.

Dissidentia Brand Strategy

Cyril Calgaro animates another infographic of sorts with a very simple structure. Similar to the apple film Designed in Apple by California the film uses dots and lines animated in a physical way along with a serif font to create a simple but stylish film.

Peditro Store

Cyril Calgrao directs a simple animated infographic with a nice colour scheme and subtle but thought-out animation to create a cost-effect and pleasant infographic.

White Out

Hand drawn, inked and painted frame-by-frame, there is no digital cheating here. Over 2000 rotoscoped paintings on a variety of paper surfaces make Jeff Sher’s winter animation.

The Persuit of Brilliance

Oliver Sin returns with sounds recorded from an evening arranged by the popular online blog ‘It’s Nice That’ in collaboration with HTC. The animations are simple but nicely coloured with a hand drawn edge effect adding interest to the basic shapes.

Like Autumn Leaves

Assaf Benharroch illustrates a painterly animated piece, with an imaginative use of lighting and painterly textures.
 

Martini Racing

Using flat colours to create a mix of 3D and 2D with transitions separating it out from a crowded genre of similar films. Screen print texture added to give it that old racing poster feel too.

British Library – What is Magna Carta?

First film of two commissioned by the British Library, and narrated by Monty Python’s Terry Jones, this small animation investigates how the document came to be under the rule of Bad King John. Animated by Gergely Wootsch.
 

Hola!

Impressive animated sequence by young Swiss graduate Guillaume Mégroz, in search of his internship. Flat infographic styles, but with a new colour palette and hand-drawn edge with well-thought out animation give it a fresh approach.

Manhunt

Opening Title sequence of HBOs Documentary; MANHUNT. The show documented the two decade hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Lots of documents and ink bleeds.

Creative Directed & Designed by Manija Emran.
Produced by The Mill+

We are the Giant

Lots of layers of political and social upheaval over the centuries are organised through what looks like a burning paper effect for the titles and graphics for director Greg Barker’s documentary, We Are The Giant, a Passion Pictures & Motto Pictures Production.

Creative Directed & Designed by Manija Emran. Produced by Mill Plus themillplus.com

FITC Toyko 2015 Titles

Techno-glitchy title sequence for the Tokyo FITC conference. The making-of process reel found here is another interesting watch as it mixes a variety of 3D, code and web processes to create the unusual opener.

D&AD – 2014 Title Sequence

The Mill create another machine driven title sequence, this time for the D&AD awards. Photorealistic CGI models based around their pencil motif, animate in a variety of mouse-trap style movements to reveal logos of  the awards supporters.

A Good Wife

Interesting tale with limited animation but with great visuals and lighting directed by W. Scott Forbes.

Into the Woods

Another nice animation from the New York times series on Modern Love by Stuart Langfield. Simple animated elements connect to a narrative voiceover by pinpointing individual phrases or words to animate. Works well as a simple serious alternative to the infographic.

NPR – Brains on Play

A playful informative film by the talented Xaver Xylophon for the National Public Radio. It mixes graphics with comedy in a digital painted style much like his other film “For Hire Bangalore Rickshaw

Cymatics

No post production or VFX apparently, it’s all real. There’s an accompanying making of if you don’t believe me. Interesting results by Nigel Stanford.

The Lego Movie

Stop motion title sequence for the ending of the Lego Movie. Nice layout, positioning and camera movement give a childish subject a mature look.

Superfast Broadband

Nicely shot and conceived advert for the UK Goverment’s promotion of the latest broadband services coming our way.

Black Ops 2

How the world might be viewed in 2025. Nice graphical representation of elements together.

Extending Cycle Length

3D Character with an interesting style by Plastiek

Because I am a girl

A film shot in Malawi by Wired Video for Plan International in association with their documentary video unit, and the amazing local production company TIMVENI, with the participation of children and young people from the local community.

Marco Polo titles

Mill+ co-director Ben Smith and co-director Bryce Wymer teamed up with Netflix to create the title sequence for Marco Polo and most appears to be achieved on camera but with a lot of planning.

Goldfish Grahams

Nice work from Shilo, based on simple handdrawn animations tracked to a breakfast scene.

Warwick Uni – Funding explainer

Hand-held camera shots from the life or a student in Warwick University provide the backdrop to this explainer video. Ancillary animated elements provide extra energy to this piece.

Calu Journey

Watercolour-like animation using 3D characters but rendered in a very painterly fashion. By Little Fluffy Clouds.

Turkish mobile numbers

Nice infographic film from Özgür Atmaca which shows how even graphs and charts can look quite dynamic if well animated.

Running the Gammatar

Short Movie with an interested mixed of techniques… directed by Kris Hofmann.

Phantom Power

Little clip with nice character design and animation by Persistent Peril

Lost in the train station

Nice animation and characters by Yago Busquets

I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up

Dave Fothergill experiments with the Maya plugin “Miarmy” used in many an action film. Animations, collisions and rag-doll effects make for oddly soothing viewing.

Seton – Welcome to Humancare

A cut paper style often seen in still graphics, but rarely animated this way. Technically well made by CHRLX, with a bigger budget than you might imagine. The action is fast and engaging and the duration is to the point.

The missing Scarf

Interesting animation, mixing 2d and 3d.

Person of Interest

Essentially, spy stuff. Lots of overlays and tracking footage and data gives it that high-tech espionage look. By Imaginary Forces

Going the Distance

Map title sequence, simple idea nicely executed in a fun, crafted way by Imaginary Forces.

Crossbones Main Title (Director's Cut)

Slight alteration to the aired version as the cross was taken off. Short and simple but nice idea with the flag transition. By Imaginary Forces.

Manhattan – Main Title

Simple idea of diagrams on paper done very well in true Imaginary Forces style, similar in fashion to their popular Rubicon title.

TSB-Surprise

Here a beautiful animation, with watercolor and hand drawn animation.

Second Wind

Just a lovely story, amazing animation and splendid colour by Ian Worrel.

Sidewalk

Only one long shot with nice animation by Celia Bullwinkel.

LA-GAR-TO

Beautiful colorful animation by Miguel Jiron

11 Paper Place

Nice 3D render and animation by Daniel Houghton.

Habitus

Nice transition movement and animation by Timor Barshtman.

New York Times – Modern Love

Nice bi colour, hand-drawn animation by Freddy Arenas.

Avoidance

Nice geometrical 2D animation by Erica Rotberg

In the Air is Christophe Gray

Nice hand-drawn colorful animation with a mixture of techniques by Felix Massie

lucy & the limbs

Mixture with 2D and 3D animation by Edlyn Capulong.
 

Apache

Music video for the band Danger Beach by Ned Wenlock. 2D paper cut out strips are virtually curved around cylindrically to create a moving landscape. From here the video mixes textures and styles to create an engaging and narrative video.

Irritable Bowl Syndrome

A short essay by Bill Maher on why American Football owes so much to Socialism; no doubt much to the distress of many patriotic fans.
Directed and Animated by Fraser Davidson

Mobext

Nice idea to frame a simple infographic by Animade. Mainly character based, but the divided blocks allow a mix of results.

Fight for Everyone – The Leisure Society

Music promo for The Leisure Society by Persistent Peril. Simple idea beautifully crafted, getting more complex and quirkier as the track builds.

Work Inspired

An explainer video for Mindjet. A typical infographic script, but a character centred twist and clever transitions give it a different feel.

Tiny Worlds

Nice short by Rushes, experimenting with mixing live action with animation. Very cleverly and professionally done. Check out the others in the series on vimeo.

Sky HD "Fragments"

Parallax used to the highest degree to create these idents by Brothers & Sisters. Although looking like slowed down footage, stills were placed within a 3D environment, composited with animated details and moved with a virtual camera.

CBRE Animated Infographics

A great little infographic about global real estate
Project Management: Veni Video Vici
Creative Direction / Illustration: Mauco Sosa
Animation: Peter Cobo

Augmented reality – Bus Shelter

Pepsi Max surprised commuters in London with a series of augmented reality screenings and then putting this film together after their recording live reactions

Live tennis data

For this year’s US Open Tennis tournament, IBM and Ogilvy & Mather invited ‘Buck’ out to Arthur Ashe Stadium to create live video animations using data from the tournament, delivered via Instagram. Using live data meant designing and deploying a custom toolkit and workflow that could shift with the on-court action, delivering responsive data-based animations, rendered and uploaded in minutes.

Canada’s Water Health

WWF Canada and The Public Assembly, address the subject of clean water in Canada. Directed and designed by Hector Herrera.
A great montage of victorian illustration, watercolour textures and vector elements.

And here’s another version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FvsEUvUDrY&feature=emb_logo

Tom Clancy's The Division trailer

More excellent motion graphics from Antibody. Directed by Patrick Claire

True Detective titles

Antibody created the main title sequence for HBO’s critically acclaimed drama series True Detective. Working through our LA-based production partners, Elastic, and with compositing support from the talented crew at Breeder.

Walking city

Matt Pyke and Universal Everything invite you to spend seven hypnotic minutes with their “slowly evolving video sculpture” called Walking City, a fusion of architecture, evolution and movement.

Access Prepaid

Lovely animated film from Radley Yeldar and winner of IVCA 2014 awards for best animated film.

Beauty

Lots of rotoscoping, puppet-pinning, distortions and lots of other clever time-consuming tricks in this great piece of work from Rino Stefano Tagliafierro

Přpad (The Case)

Textured and strongly lit animation bring a certain eastern european feel to this animation by Martin Zivocky.

BBC – My City

Short sting for the “Havana” section, using flat colours in 3D with wonderful camera movement to transition.

Cystic Fibrosis

Film about the medical condition of Cystic Fibrosis. Using just yellow, black and white in a a hand-drawn way the film transitions throughout different scenarios people and text to describe how the condition affects it’s sufferers.

Sparkle

Animated sequence which is a very stripped down and almost abstract infographic, with echoes of Apple’s “Designed in California” animation. Other versions available to view on Vimeo.

Go Green with your Blue Bin

Sebas & Clim create an informative film for Hackney council. The infographic is simple and uncluttered, but with subtle careful animation create a visually appealing video.

Oscar Health Insurance

Flat coloured 2D animation but cleverly animated to give a 3D feel. A warm colour scheme and soft shapes give it a welcoming feel.

Nokia Smart Data

Infographic about the data, done in a flat geometric style.

Stuck in the Sound – Pursuit

Music video, using CGI and tracking to image map the singer’s face on to famous film clips.

Samsung Galaxy

Hand drawn cartoon elements tracked on to nicely shot footage of Paris, gives a friendly upbeat feeling to an urban landscape.

The Wiki Man

Hand drawn simple animation, with ink and paper depict a cut-down TED talk, by Moth Collective.

Barclays – Life Skills

Chalk board style animation by Art & Graft, describing one boy’s experience using animation of chalk lines and clever transitions.

Up Titles

Title design for Pixar’s Up by Janice Ahn. Colourful and playful with quantised colouring to give it a modern graphic feel.

Coffee

An isometric style animated short film with glossy plastic texturing which has character moments and infographic moments. Lovely colours and lighting.

Ikea – Stills

Model mock ups by Rural Lee for a film for IKEA. The film would have revealed a mini world inside each area of storage.

The Scarecrow

The team behind the hugely successful Chipotle film (watch it here) are back with a new film in shiny CGI. All big budget stuff here.

The Sun – An Ode to Telly

A Big mixture of CGI, stop motion, animation and live action seemless mix in this crafted advert for the Sun.

Don't Fail Idaho

Charming infographic using alot of animation to state of the pressures of education in Idaho. A nice mixture of hand drawn animation and transitions give the film a very different look.

National Geographic – 80's

An 80’s themed ident, using painterly effects and smooth animation, give it modern reworking of an 80s style ident.

Blue Cross Blue Shield

Another infographic but with a slightly more illustrative linear feel to it, with lovely transitions. The Voice over provides the facts and the visual is much more abstract.

IBM – Datagrams

An infrographic about Live video animations delivered via instagram. The colour palette and condensed font give a very modern look with slick animation.

Crossroads

Looks like Rubicon but with a figure orchestrating. Another animation from Marcus Eckert.

ParaNorman

A subtle mix of 3D into the retro spooky styling by using painted textures on the 3D models. The look is spooky with an old film feel.

Down with Love

Retro style graphics in a 2D graphic style contributes a swinging soundtrack. A fifties style animation similar to Catch Me if You Can.

Eva Film titles

Titles by Dvein, fromthe Spanish film director Kike Maíllo’s retro-futuristic sci-fi thriller.

Salt

Great work based on the uses of salt by Gentleman Scholar and commissioned by Grey SF.

Mini – Rocketman Concept

Plenty of ideas in this one from pop up books to 3D tracking, all explaining the new mini, all as a model on an inventor’s desk.

Free the grid

Communicating the complex system of solar energy feeding into the grid.

EDP energy

A world in red & white espousing the benefits of good (renewable) energy.

Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

Rainbow colours in 3D forms characterise this animation by Production Studio: Ars Thanea, Director: Karol Kolodzinski & 3D Artist: Patryk Habryn.

Watercolour Shell performance

lots of watercolour washes bring in the video which itself has been treated with the watercolour look.

CCTV ink

Ink dropped into water like you’ve never seen before. Produced by Troublemakers.tv

Slavery Free

Yes slavery is still with us in some parts and this film questions our role in that trade. From Daniel Stewart working with Epipheo studios and Kasey Lum.

Bless you

Short animated film by Philip Watts combining ’tilt shift’ cityscapes, traditional animation and some great little visual effects. Beware of the little green monster.

CHERIE 25 Habillage

A great hybrid of traditional animation and live action from ‘Les Telecreateurs design’. One can only imagine that this was quite a complex piece of work to composite as successfully as this.

Crazy Enough

Great study in moving objects by Jr.canest.

Is that a fish in your ear?

A short animation made for Penguin Books to help promote ‘Is That A Fish In Your Ear?’ by David Bellos. Animation by Matthew Young.

Anchor – Great Escape

We’re just about to embark on a project involving use of fuzzy felt and came upon this directed by Tony Mines for Tandem Films in Homage to the Steve McQueen motorbike sequence from ‘The Great Escape’.

Shave-it

Fantastic animated short film by 3dar Studios with a spectacular colour palette.

Crave

Charles de Lauzirika’s psychological noir is the subject of this end sequence where wind-driven, humanoid whirligigs are torn apart and re-purposed into disturbing wooden mechanisms.
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The Grand National

John Allison and Chris Bovill, Creative Directors of 4creative where the drivers behind the 45 hours of footage, shot over two days using 44 cameras and a cast and crew of almost 300 people, including race and stunt horses and jockeys to achieve the ambitious final film.

ABC of Architects

Very much has the feeling of an old 50’s animation. Concept and Animation: Andrea Stinga, Federico Gonzalez.

Flux

A Short Animation Inspired by the Works of İlhan Koman with video and sound design by Candas Sisman. Its quite hypnotic once it gets going.

Meet our Airline

More infographics from Binalogue presenting the airline’s demographics.

British Council

Nice little infographic animation from Binalogue on the launch of the British Council’s social media strategy pack.

Electronic recycling

A mad conveyor belt animation from Tendril, Toronto.

OFFF 2013 Cincinatti

Beautiful abstract film celebrating the OFFF festival of design, photography and motion

The American Beer Revival

Solely text leads this short conveying facts about the American brewing industry. The nicely placed text and font choices manages to keep the interest.

Wide Sky

A lesson in transitions here, using 2D motion graphics composited and interacting with 3D elements for a trailer for an arcade game app.

Don’t Worry, Drive On: Fossil Fuels & Fracking Lies

An info-graphic film but holds very little statistics in terms of text and numbers, mostly relying on transition graphic imagery to convey the details.

Oil’d

Designed, animated and written by Chris Harmon to highlight the massive oil spill in the Gulf which so quickly left the news and we largely forgot about.

To this day

To This Day is a project based on a spoken word poem written by Shane Koyczan called “To This Day”, to further explore the profound and lasting impact that bullying can have on an individual. Animators and motion artists brought their unique styles to 20 second segments that will thread into one fluid voice.

Skoda on paper

Quite a complex piece of animation built around a paper-folded world.

Cutty Sark returns

Really well captured insight into the Greenwich community and the return of the Cutty Sark after it has been restored after the fire which almost destroyed it some years ago. Apparently the work is from Armoury London and the compositing was done by Rogue Collie in Wales.

Disney Recycling

Disney Recycle

A charming film by Grant Orchard using papier mache and lo-fi props to make this hand-made cardboard video on recycling.

NCB Naturalis

An interesting mix of styles combining the foundations of a studio shoot with lots of overlaid graphics informing the viewer about the collections and work of this Dutch centre for biodiversity studies. Agency – PlusOne

A History of the title sequence

A nicely shot and animated homage to the individuals who have produced landmark titles for features in the past.

Scarlet One Weekend Off

Quirky German animation with George Melieres overtones. Direction and animation: Jeroen Houben & Jurjen Versteeg.

Understand Music

Simple, in style and colour animation but with clever technicalities and expertly executed.

Historia branding

Idents and branding for the French History channel. Very subtle but with some very nice clever features to it, especially with the show times towards the end.

Enemy of the State

An old title sequence now but still quite memorable. By yU+co

Open Text

Another great infographics commercial very well executed from Tendril in Toronto.

La Poste

Another use of 3D unfolding card, getting more and more complex. A small world is unraveled in a small fresh colour scheme with wonderful camera movements.

Toyota: Stories of Better

Telling the story of a Toyota, the “open book” idea is used again, but with ink and more of a travel guide. The apply a variety of techniques on a standard theme as the video progresses.

Planet IFE

A great little promotional video from Binalogue, relating the pleasures of Planet IFE an inflight entertainment & advertising company.

The Real Bears

Nice mix of 2D animation with 3D to give a flawless subtle look. Simple and subdued it warns of the health issues with certain fizzy drinks.

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Quintessentially British film from the Royal College, animating line drawn illustrations.

StarWorld

Branding idents for the tv channel with a high female demographic. Shiny things, lipsticks, handbags, all that stuff girls like.

Sony Spin Countdown

Mixing simple live action with animation to create 10 small colourful numerical idents.

MPs: Are the still at it?

Quirky puppet style animation added a comical twist to the outrageous expenses scandal. Illustrative styling and cut out photos allowed a mix real people without being too liable for Channel 4.
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Dumb Ways to Die

A find by Mr. Rob Edmonds about rail saftey using quirky block coloured 3D animation to give a graphic flat traditional styling.

War on type

This is an amazing piece of work. The camera movement, depth of field, modelling and explosions work really well.

Weather system

Not sure you really need weather forecasting for the Arabian Gulf, but if you did this is the one.

Iron Man: End Titles

Mixing hi-tech juxtaposed with an old film effect gives a interesting outcome.

Parallaxing

A test by us to showing parallaxing a an old photograph celebrating the queens jubilee in Bethnal Green. The photo is split into layers, digitally repainted and then placed into a frame with a 3D virtual camera.
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Animation for the opening of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang starring Robert Downey Jnr. The titles use simple mattes and strokes to create an old painted effect, with more focus on the style rather than the animation.

X-Men: First Class

End titles for the film. Referencing early 1960’s title sequences as inspiration, simple shapes are used to graphically represent scientific data including DNA sequencing, mitosis, meiosis, and gene technology.

Elementry title

Prologue piece together a clever device shooting close-ups with a muted palette and short depth of field. The series is a modern take on Sherlock Holmes by CBS starring Lucy Liu as Watson. I know, right.

Royksopp – Remind Me

Another video looking like a 70s instructional manual, but nicely packaged and expertly done. I always like anything isometric.

Zinio Reader

Nice combination of 2D and 3D to create a hi-tech styled commercial for a magazine app.

4seven idents

More difficult than you would imagine to make. Rotating landscape cube.

The Girl Effect

Infographic about the risk of AIDS/HIV in the third world. The film uses typography and simple graphics to tell the story.

Pull & Bear graphics

In store graphics animating words in intricate and stylish versions.

Ending Overfishing

Infographic about environmentalism. Stylized CGI and clever transitional animation create a clear yet lovely backdrop for the information by Uli Henrik Streckenbach.

Paris vs. New York

Animation based on Vahram Muratyan’s stunning book of illustrations, very flat simple and graphic and colourful.
By Nord

eBay

A simple take on the fold ’em up, fold ’em down style, but adding in touchscreen style wipes.

Air Canada's costume change

As far as i can make out most of this promo was achieved in camera with very little apparent past-production.

Cracker Barrel

Clever use of super-imposing and tracking for this advert. Using boxes to separate action and have elements interact between them in a rustic setting.

Smart Car Diorama

A cardboard diorama. Always nice. A simple model, with the softness of cardboard makes a industrial production process seem friendly.

Les Bleus De Ramville

Nice title sequence using interesting motion on hockey notation and jump cut editing

John Baldessari

A short history of this artist told by Tom Waits in a quite comical montaged manner

BBC 2012 Euro titles

Battles of the badges in this new animated title sequence for the Euros.

Syria: The Real Mr & Mrs Assad

We created a large canvas here for Dispatches in order to connect all the different members in a complex system. The animation is made up of moves highlighting the important individuals. The styling is rough and ready conveying the underground espionage within Syria.
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Tennis Types

The new 2012 trailer for Wimbledon from Red Bee Media. Still trying to work out whether this this could have been achieved without painstaking attention to detail.

Nick and Norah's Infinate Playlist

‘High School’ doodles animate in to provide a young naive feel to the hand-drawn titles.

Moleskin: Lego Pitch

Simple animated lego characters sit on an environment of an animated moleskin background. Fun and quirky with simple but sophisticated animation.

Fell in Love with a Girl

The White Stripes’ video made of lego bricks.

Sander van Dijk

Demo reel for Sander can Dijk. Involves some nice kaleidoscopic 2D graphics and some 3D. Also a nice photo rip idea half way through.

NFL Coaches

Nice use of text within video clips.

Oslo Airport

Nice short film about the expansion to Oslo Airport. The film was made using small models of wood and cardboard to give it that handmade finish which is an interesting combination for a film about an airport expansion.

Pentagram

“The Forty story” is a short film which documents the work of Pentagram. Its carried by a clever audio track to accompany their history of print.

Water Changes Everything

Great little animated piece especially if you denote all the ways the water icon is used

Where things come from

My weakspot, flat coloured isometric graphics. A couple nice transitions and I’m sold. Graphics, people, graphics.

iPhone Diorama

Student Film (applause) by a Mike Ko. Mocking up and tracking a 3D diorama on an iPhone. Very nice on the close up with the textures.

Nokia: Traffic

Nice simple animation for a Nokia video by Punga. Using bold colours and simple flat isometric animation, allow plenty of space for text.

Secrets of the Taxman

We used quirky animation and a mixed paper layout to roam across individuals and details in for Dispatches’ investigation into HMRC. Elements are drawn appear with marker pens to direct the viewer to different areas.
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Total

Advertising using tracking and compositing of motion graphics and text to recreate science, music, mathematics and space.

The carpenter

Nice bit of tracking and great cinematography but still slightly tongue in cheek – I think?
directed / edited / vfx – Dimitris Ladopoulos, Spiros Rasidakis

Toyota IQ collisions

Manvsmachine created these 10 abstract collisions for Toyota sponsorship for C4 programming.
Production company:Nexus & Audio: Echolab

Olympic Forms

Quayola (aka ‘dQ’) and Memo Akten through digital production outfit Nexus Interactive Arts, have created ‘Forms’, a multiscreen digital artwork commissioned by the National Media Museum for the exhibition In the Blink of an Eye: Media and Movement, which is part of the Cultural Olympiad programme.

Intel's chase

A lot of work has gone into this intel commercial Smith & Foulkes (nexus productions).

Green-screen presenter

Very good use of presenter in a studio cut with very stylised graphics. Design & Animation: Oz Smith
Creative Director: Greg Millar for BBC sport.

Short Depth of Field

A simple technique to use on photographs, some with poorer resolution to add a little more mystery to a rostrum move.
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Amsterdam Paintings

A fine piece of work by agency ‘plus one’ using a collection of techniques to attempt to get under the paint of these collection of works, in this case on the story of Amsterdam, Holland.

Dancing wireframe

I was more impressed with this when I watched it mute but it’s still an impressive piece by Colin Rozee with the soundtrack.

Rotor Panorama

Attaching a camera to a helicopter blade,  with surprisingly interesting effects.

Christmas Card

An animated sequence, made to look like paper origami stop-frame animation.

Chipotle: Back to the start

John Kelly’s film advertising for Chipotle. Using simple character animation and flat colouring turns a narrative quite graphic look for a stop-frame film.

Hyper Geography

Hyper Geography

A short film compositing footage, tracking photography and including 3D elements across a variety of landscapes.

The gift – CGI stylish short film

Very clever and atmospheric short film with very high production values directed by Carl E. Rinsch.

Amalgamation

Amalgamation

Winner of the best use of displacement map/compound blur ever – Micaël Reynaud, with portraits by Michael Jang. Stay with it, kids.

Kerala advert

Very slow pensive advert but some of the photographic shots are superb.

Montage: What is Motion Design

A montage here of lots of clips, useful for a bit of inspiration. Starting with adapting photos and moving in to all sorts of idents and motion graphics. Useful credit list of all the featured films at the end too.

Bausch & Lomb – BioTrue

Commercial animating with a CGI card texture to create origami style movement, folding into/from the box packaging.

Toyota: Diorama

Mixture of stop-motion and CGI to create a 3D children’s diorama as a playful setting for the car.

Jack Daniel's Label Story

3D animation matted on to a flat black texture to give a 2D imprinted look Continue Reading →

The Kingdom

Graphic titles combined with sand tinted archive to produce a brief history of Saudi Arabia.

Secret Island – Monophon

Ooo, I do love a cross section.

Movida Corona

Simple camera movements on a well-lit 3D model provide slick visuals.

Channel 4 Ident

Classic series of idents using a moving camera to reveal a logo in 3D space.

Heart of rebel

Conceptual trailer for female missionary who left American Civil war ravaged Virginia for China. Well crafted trailer.

The Boy with the Incredible Brain

Graphics from the documentary, focusing on light and refraction.

Documents with short DOF

These documents have been treated in a 3D program to suggest they have been shot with short depth of field and textured and graded to give that warm elegantly lit appearance.

Face Substitution

Real time face-substitution by Kyle McDonald: Continue Reading →

Mischief PR

Mischief PR

Grange Hill meets PR company.
Check out the desk here.

Frank PR

Simply sketched flash website, with a doodled feel.
Link to this here.
 
 

Sherwin Williams – River

Commercial using card colour swatches to create a whole CGI environment.

Rayban: Never Hide

Slick use of simple 3D use lights and heavy reflections to creative colourful graphic visuals.

John Carpenter's The Ward

Titles incoporating archive stills by placing them against a plane of breaking glass. Not for the very squeamish…

American Civil War map sequences

Video installations at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum.

Casino Royale

Quintessential Bond title. Girls, guns, silhouttes.

Visible Human Part 2

Tests using the Visible Human Project data – see original video here. And creating a 3D model with the CAT scan.

Rubicon Title

Title animation using purely motion graphics and clever transitions with a small colour pallete to great effect. Lots of documents.

Pinterest

Pinterest personal virtual pinboard

Pinterest lets you organize and share all the cool things you find on the web. Like things your find on sketchpad…
Start here.

Randolph Churchill

Mapping Test, creating a 3D model of Mr. Churchill and wrapping his image around it, to create an extreme parallaxed dimension on to an ordinary archive still.
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Cinema Philips Film

Some serious time-freeze action going on here. My guess is a mixture of parallax, 3D mapping, plenty of wire and mannequins. (..too many people in masks..)

Archive stills

Avery nice blend of old photographs but mapped onto simple 3D models.

Move

I guess these guys got in before airmiles added their fees & taxes. Great little sequence which must have been months in the planning.

Captain America

Title sequence using image mapping of 2D paintings on to 3D objects.

The playground fight

What appears to be a great piece of motion capture was actually created using stills which were then applied to 3D models of human heads to create the idea of cameras moving around frozen action.

Stunt poetry

A study in high speed photography or clever morphing of stills using twixter plugin for After Effects.

Undercover Cruises

3D schematics are layouts of the cruise ships give an investigative look to the Dispatches look at Cruise ship employment
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AT&T retinking possibilities

This is just a great, heart warming advert combining kids drawings by means of camera tracking and clever compositing.

Drawing In Space

Test into a simple pen line which can then be rotated into three dimensions.
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The story of US – Civil War

Highlights from big series by Nutopia. Good example of use of drama reconstruction which surprisingly was all shot in S. Africa.

Dustin Hoffman – Sky Atlantic

Just lovely simple advert with actor, one camera and the sunlight. Like the brashness of the jump cuts.

americanExpress

American Express: Impossible

Flat shaded animated 3D with clever transitions into letter types.

Mercedes-Benz Oil

Animation morphing CG oil to create shapes and settings for animation and archive footage.

Bleeding Images

We’ve experimenting with techniques to bleed through images, either from one to another to fade in an image, giving it a natural, organic introduction.
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Peugeot Ecolo

Sculpted steel tubes shape the car body and details as the 3D camera traverses through the space.

Honda Jazz

Playful surreal advert using 3D to follow a family’s journey through the sky and into the building of car.

Shape Illumination

Cinema 4D CGI test into global illumination. Lighting the shapes from within to create colour and light within the composition.
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Skoda – Value Written All Over It

Car Commercial using pencil sketching mapped on to a 3D service to create a graphical feel and advertise craftmanship

De Montford University

Jimmy Choo describes a shoe using trapcode light graphics.

Sustainable Investment Markets

Tracking data graphics over satellite imagery to get a sci-fi technological feel.

Stills Move

Very simple move on stills, replicating a rostrum move, but we’ve added a more complex 3D virtual camera, a tighter depth of field, a table setting with lighting and a glossy reflection to the photographs.
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American West maps

Flat maps displaced in using cgi for American West series.
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Parallax Horse

Animated pitch using a form of parallaxing to create an extreme slow-motion effect of a horse mid-jump.
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TEDxBristol

8bit style isometric animation with flat colours in 3D.

Genesis Creative Narrative

CGI animation documenting the creation of the earth in a scientific way, yet narratively based around religion.

Discovery Lifestyle

Discovery channel ident using 3D composited over blue-print backgrounds to create a diagramatic data look.

Siminn TV

Advert using film frames and alot of 3D to create a fast-paced adventure through their TV programming.

Medstyst Shockwave Therapy

Live action is tracked in certain points, and medical 3D animation is overlayed to look like X-Rays.

The Biology of Change

Commericial using trapcodes (I think) to create medical style 3D animations for Momentum Health.

A Brief Introduction to Genetics

A nicely designed graphic presentation using a mixture of flat shaded 3D and 2D animation.

Map / Territory by Timo

Plane tracking is used effectively with overlayed graphics.

Satellite Car Chase

Inventive use of overlaying an animation of stiched together Google maps images.

HSB – Ursvik

Pop-Up Book animation but adding live action to the pages for added interest.

Battlefield Britain

Great use of a prop to contain the battlefield graphics in this series presented by the Snows. This programme features the ‘Battle of Newbury’ and the ‘Battle of Nazeby’ during the English Civil War. First battle about 9.00 in.

BMW – Series One

Technical graphics and kaleidoscopic animation provide a data heavy car commercial.

Gent: Scheppende Stad

Gent Scheppende Stad (Ghent Creative City) is an initiative of the city council of Ghent to (together with several creative forces/different sectors of society) look for solutions for the urban challenges, so they can shape the future of Ghent together.
Continue Reading →

Absolut Apeach

Kaleidoscopic 3D imagery creating graphics around a vodka bottle by Film Tecknarna.

My Best Friend Plank

Cartoon Network ident using retro stylings and parallax manipulation of photographs.

Juno

Mixing live action with rotoscoped animation and stop-frame to create a mixed media look.

Renaissance Remastered

By mapping a painting in extremely high photographic detail, stitching the images and using a proxy-morphing technique, we were able to create incredibly large zooms to square centimetre sections, all in HD for Renaissance Remastered on BBC2.
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Stranger Than Fiction

Titles using tracking to display data in a scientific and graphic manner.

Number 23

Static titles using close-ups of paper and documents with subtle animation to create a coded typographical sequence.

MTV: P.O.V.

Old diagrams are animated in 2D and 3D to create a vintage looking title sequence with a graphic feel.

World War I Shooting Sequence

Mapping Test, creating a 3D model of Mr. Churchill and wrapping his image around it, to create an extreme parallaxed dimension on to an ordinary archive still.
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Blue Valentine

Title sequence using lights as a matte to reveal photography. Simple yet effective.

Elektra Luxx (NSFW)

This sequence block shades the live action and adds it together with animation to create a very bold graphicly styled sequence.

Herbst

Title sequence using minatures and macro lenses to create space with tiny figures.

Dispatches: Tabloids, Torries and Telephone Hacking

Graphical sequence using buzzing numbers to convey telephone hacking and voicemail decoding for Channel 4’s Dispatches.
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Dexter

Dexter’s titles include extreme close-ups to get a dramatic feeling of intensity.

The Borgias

Artistic title sequence mixing painting with live action and close-up.

Catch Me If You Can

Film title sequence using flat colouring with subtle 3D to create a retro graphic feel

Six Feet Under

Classic title sequence using live action footage placed carefully with credit typography

Wacom: Inkling

Advert for Wacom software, mixing hand drawn animation with live action

2009 offf titles

Beautiful camera work, interesting fashion and left-field additions to the landscape.

Grip Ltd

Grip – Canada

Lively website inspired by Victorian posters, which moves in sections, up and across.
Link to this here.

Edward VII: Prince of Pleasure

Montage of our Timewatch special using canvases decorated with photos and memorabilia to create rostrum style moves matching the narrative.
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Rohm and Haas

Rohm and Haas – company history

You have a massive archive and a story to tell – this is one way to do it.
Link to this here.

The Dashboard

The Dashboard

A Smörgåsbord of mini web activities.
Try for yourself.

Poland's Heritage

Presenting an exhibition in an exciting way, this Flash website brings life to old manuscripts.
Link to this website here.

Matko Stankovic

Matko Stankovic Photographer

Interesting interactive website, which initially is a bit like driving a car when you are unfamiliar with the controls.
Try it yourself – click here.

Ubersuper

Übersuper

Inspiration log, link-dump, moodboard resource, interweb thingy…
Visit Stefan’s site here.

Misprinted Typ e

Illustrator Eduardo Recife’s commercial works, a collage feast for the eyes.
Click here to see more.

Robin Hood opening sequence

Titles for Robin hood mixing traditional painterly techniques with a modern twist.

Jose Gonzales: Crosses

Music video using one static shot and layering in other VT throughout.

Honda Civic Split Screen

Cut up video and many split screens create this Honda advert

Sherlock Holmes end titles

End credits rotoscoping frames in a hand-drawn ink style over video footage.

Crescendo by Mothership

Promotional video using extreme close-ups and camera angles with VFX to produce an moving journey through music.

Drugs on the Brain

Medical CGI sequences explaining the effects on drugs within the body.
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True Blood titles

Classic Title sequence for True Blood. Using a mixture of archive and shot footage with a edgy heavily graded look. Thanks, Bolex.

Stuxnet animated typography

A complex mixing of styles and worth a view for the design if not the message. Watch on motiongraphics.

Ask Away Campaign

Series of quick and simple videos using cut out animation on a plain background to convey a message by Digital Kitchen.

IBM: Data Baby

Technological looking advert mixing live action with footage by Motion Theory.

Pokerstars

Yes everyone has gone gaming made in the UK since they relaxed the rules but this promo from ‘The Mill’ is a quite a good use of the video being tracked and added overlays to increase the tension.

Pop up book – JP Morgan Chase

Superb use of the pop up book to animate this tale.
Directed by Psyop.

Bored to Death title sequence

Titles for american sitcom using text from a book to animate the characters and type throughout.

Gettysburg Address

Text and animation added together to form the speech without any photos or footage.

Augmented Reality Map

Augmented reality is used to show and move around a 3-Dimensional map.

Bacardi – Manifesto

Colourful mix of live action and flat shaded 3D animation in a faux-educational style.

Introducing the Chromebook

Animation using simple block colours, shapes and typography.

OK Go – All is Not Lost

Clever use of Google Chrome. (Browser needed) OK Go mini-site

Lady Randy

Programme graphics using parallaxing techniques to add movement to stills.
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Street Summer: Channel 4

Channel 4 promo using Google Street View as a basis for inserting video into a static street scene.

David Salaices: Clock DJ

Split screen stop frame / pixilation animation of a clock.

Star Guitar – Chemical Brothers

Clever and subtle use of repeated computer animation in to synchronise to a rhythm.

Google Chrome – Features

Quirky videos using homemade machines to create technological solutions.

WWF Commercial – Threads

WWF advert using CGI rope to create shapes and figures, showing how everything is simply connected.

Edwardian Britain: Suffragette

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We are most proud of managing to create an absorbing sequence which lasted well over a minute of tv time using just one photograph.

Wonderputt

An addictive and simply beautifully designed little game.

Visual Complexity

Visual Complexity is a site which houses a complex and varied range of sources of data visualisations.

Kinetic Typography

Animation displaying only typography, using a 3D camera move to scroll over a large canvas of text.

Human Scan

3D scan through the length of a Human Body, compiling photographs to create an animation.

TWS Pitch

Pitched idea, coming from a reflective idea, emitting the images of sport off the dark black emerging cubes. By placing the sports footage in different 3D spaces the images reflected and combined on different surfaces.

Battlefields as a prop

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The Snows carry around their portfolio of battlefields together with some clever camera tracking and CGI work and a bit of ad libing and some hand waving.

Introducing Google eBooks

eBooks are introduced by using CGI to look like stop frame animation in a colourful and playful way.

Sunday Times TV adverts

Simple branding idents, placing the icons in different environments. Also has some nice split screen action later on.

Sky Idents

2009 Refraction idents by MoveMakeShake.

AOL. Ident

Simple ident using coloured spheres on a white background to reveal a logo.

Moving Stills

An interesting technique using animated gif’s within a larger image to give the effect of realism. I guess its all about getting the loop to work. Check out the site ‘From me to You‘.

Kino

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Titles for an old BBC Knowledge slot on Non-English language cinema. Shot in and around London and projections were composited later.

M6 Branding Idents

CGI glass logos added into different environments in order for a variety of branding tv channel idents.

Sky Sports Idents 2010

Sky Sports idents mixing live action footage with CGI smashing glass. The figures were rotoscoped and added into 3D environments.

Refraction – Jesse Zanzinger

Shot through oil and water to create reflections and simple refraction in a live action experiment.
Continue Reading →

Bubble

Colourful animation using nothing but a sphere and colours.

Resonance – Necrosis

Dark, creepy animation with an alien and biological feel, black and white.

BUCK 65 'Superstars Don't Love'

Retro styled music video comprised of over 60 fictional movie title cards.

Studio Music

The pressure of being responsible for the studio music often tiptoes the fine line between kudos and embarrassment. Continue Reading →

Unknown Warrior

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A very rough & ready ‘parallax sequence’ sequence mainly due to the fact that as this promo was not transmitted, the small source images came from ‘google’ but still it proves quite poignant.

Storyverse

I had two inspirations/influences behind this project. I’ve always been fascinated by the fact that history is sometimes if not always written by the winners, and that “every coin has 2 sides”; the second inspiration comes from stories told by my father and my grandmother.
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American Voices

A title we shot some years ago in my house in Wandsworth doubling as a US government office in the 30’s. We used a boroscope lens which was about a foot in length attached to a DigiBeta camera to get in to see that dust.
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Importance of Drawing

BBC documentary about drawing and how artists respond to the world around them via a pencil and some paper.

Army Jobs

Animated drawings based around faux interviews with Army personnel.

Fujiya & Miyagi – Ankle Injuries

Music video using dominos to create the animation, in a kind of modern day pointilism.

Ninian Doff: Staring Out The Window

Music video combining a mixture of live action features, tracking human features on to crows.

Eness: Möbius

Sometimes descriptions don’t do projects justice – and anyone hearing about a collaborative stop motion sculpture might be forgiven for switching off a bit. But wait – Möbius by Eness is a real humdinger, taking over Melbourne’s main square with beguiling, playful, gently-limegreen loveliness.

Toca Boca

Toca Boca is a Swedish app creation studio, but I prefer to think of them as traditional digital toy makers. Continue Reading →

Is Tropical

Music video mixing live action children with composited cartoon animation for a fun and playful outcome.

Future Customer

A great little idea which was the brainchild of Robert Edmonds at Rocket Science Group. Graphics & compositing by TDD
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