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Studio AKA were invited to create four sequences, totaling nine minutes of animation, as well as the main titles for this live-action drama.
Superb animation based on the Chinese Lantern theatre performances which date back many centuries.
Credits:
Director: Ben Hibon
VFX & Animation: Framestore London
Producers: David Heyman, David Baron
Bling Pig used TVPaint, After Effects, Photoshop and Cinema4D to craft this story which relies on ageless animation skills. Creative Lead: Christine Peters
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’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.
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.
A form of outdoor relief intended to mitigate rural poverty in England and Wales at the end of the 18th century and during the early 19th century.
Filipe Carvalho teams with Untold Studios to set a gritty/ominous tone for Paramount’s spy thriller “Special Ops: Lioness”.
Visual insights to a Radiolab podcast “about music, memory, and what it means to be human” by exploring the phenomenon of musical hallucinations.
Recounting the investigation of a crime that shocked Brazil in 2002: the murder of one of the biggest names in the Brazilian Worker’s Party — Celso Daniel
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
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
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.
Women live with outdated, binary societal pressures, dictating the way we look, where we go and even how we procreate.
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
LOBO director Diogo Kalil, illustrator Vini Bustamante, and BBDO Dublin pull together with voice-driven AI on this poignant pro-bono effort for Irish homelessness charity, Dublin Simon Community.
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.
The main title for Candy sets the table for an 80’s housewife who is turning up the heat.
Narrated by Don Cheadle this is a film about the many disparate participants who’s combined actions allowed slavery to function in America.
A self commissioned piece by Animagic Studios & homage to one of humanity’s most powerful tools. Our stories.
BOL were approached to produce and advert to reflect Sojasun’s eco brand values, highlighting the unique story behind its renowned soy product.
A fast-paced edit of graphics, images of Atlanta and the players from the Hawks Basketball team.
A new series launch the “Redacted” promo was for the highly anticipated Treadstone series on USA Network. Produced by Spillt
Agitated, rough charcoal strokes reveal pieces of the image, whether it is something based in reality or one of his dreamy visions.
Although very technical these animators & directors had chosen to work up the conception of empowering the people. Very painterly and graceful animation.
Music Video – “A man who pushed away or was alienated from everyone he knew until confronted with the last person in his life that mattered.”
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
Title sequence developed for a documentary that explores the confrontation between a young, affluent student and a Native American elder on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
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.
The Panics director Erwin van den IJssel worked with theatre company Gecko to create the opening titles and end credits of their film Institute.
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.
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.
Gradient backgrounds with flowing American motifs, VICE News’ Election Show used a solid color scheme with blockier outlining.
“These charming vignettes are pulling you into a world and transition beautifully from one scene to another.”
Heavily inspired by Ansel Adams, Andrew Wythe, and William Kentridge, it is as rich in allegory as it is bold in tone and texture.
A vintage, cinematic, sports-oriented feel that captured the magnitude and scope of basketball’s most powerful story.
Love stories that were kept in the closet for a long time reflecting the history, legislation and norms of the time.
Inspired by graphical posters from the 60’s with minimalist design, strong perspectives and a reduced color palette borrowed from the Roland Garros branding.
Ripped paper and uncrumpled photos provide some hints at the history and text involved in these tales of black America.
The horrific results of a few minutes of mayhem at a US school provides the key for this film calling for gun reform.
Nice painterly & colourful animation to open the Torino Film Festival on the theme of the paranormal.
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.
A brief meeting after many years undermines a father’s world and renders his words meaningless.
Director Elyse Kelly brings a thoughtful approach and painterly touch to Barbra Streisand’s “Be Aware”
Working in his free time on this animation trying different techniques and styles and paying tribute to Ronaldinho.
Strange experiences and realizations lead a grieving artist to reconsider his identity and beliefs in this meditation on loss, family and mental illness.
Pushed over the edge and past his breaking point, Floyd is compelled to run headlong into the unknown.
Antibody worked with iconic illustrator Jock to create a title sequence for Jupiter’s Legacy, the debut series of the Millarverse on Netflix.
CureGRIN family tells their story of their daughter Kendall whose has a variant in her GRIN2D genes.
Hugo Cuellar was commisioned to create the first set of illustrations and animation short to accompany the release of the bottle of Fable Whisky.
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
The battle between South African Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya and the I.A.A.F. over her gender and ban from competition.
NYC studio Bigstar teams with writer/director Robe Imbriano (ABC’s Soul of a Nation) to address the history of white supremacy and how “passive racism perpetuated via white fatigue is the biggest challenge in the fight against racism today.”
The Danish Chair is an educational project exploring mid-20th-century Danish design through chairs.
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.
Simple design and intricate data visualization for GfK’s Consumer Insights Engine – tracking brands and consumers globally.
Lots of scratches and brushstrokes in these titles.
Director: Guy Ritchie
Client: Silver Pictures
Produced at Prologue
Nice title using shot material and very big close up animations of money and data.
Lots of design/animation styles in this tribute to the World Cup 2018.
Greenpeace turns its focus to industrial meat production as the root of deforestation
Operation Dragoon (initially Operation Anvil) was the code name for the Allied invasion of Southern France on 15 August 1944.
Made in collaboration with Vox Media and Novartis to explain new advances in cell and gene therapies that offer the potential to transform medicine.
Legendary Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson reflects on a grueling and often surreal life between the goalposts.
llustrated and animated TV promo for the Tarantino movie ‘Django Unchained’.
“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 cinema spot “Bubble”
Beautifully illustrated Spot for an Austrian magazine, about coming out of our social bubbles.
“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.
Funny and original animation to describe social media distancing without the use of digital associated elements.
A fully animated pre-MTV version of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Lookin Out My Door”
Great bit of motion work with rotoscoped live action and gritty textures. Feels very contemporary. By Roger.tv
Fun, Dynamic and colourful smoke trail animations and sport related motion graphics.
A graphic tool kit created for all of the Fox Sports Regions to customise with their own MLB teams, text and highlights.
Small 3D animation that unites different types of sport in a constant shape shifting harmonised clip
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.
This is a biopic about the 80-year-old US representative and civil rights icon with titles by Elastic.
Motionlab’s first passion project in almost a decade about the origins of coffee.
Barack Obama’s “Fired up, ready to go” cheer became a staple of his appearances when he was campaigning for the 2008 election. 12 contributing animators.
Amazing work made by @giantantstagram for Airbnb to illustrate how the company is improving in combating discrimination.
Nice work on this passion project from AlterEgo, who felt pressed into making this by the lack of leadership in their country.
interviews from current inmates discussing their frightening real experiences living through the outbreak, recounting the lack of social distancing measures and other necessities like masks, sanitizers and more.
I think stage mapping is a new term for providing video installations but looks cool.
From the showreel it looks pretty much like the gold standard in medical animation.
I know this scrapbook is all about motion graphics & animation but this is so well cut it deserves a mention.
-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
Mix of footage, 3D and cel-animated elements to create intense energetic bike racing titles.
by NERDO
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.
This trailer from Oscar nominated short animation by Theodore Ushev, uses an encaustic technique where the paint is mixed with beeswax.
Main title sequence for the Stephanie Soechtig-directed, Katie Couric-produced documentary about gun control and the history of the NRA.
This is a short video made for Ligonier Ministries promoting their theme for next years national conference.
“Rutger Bregman on Taxes” is personal project made in collaboration with Cypher.
Different animated clips and loops for Anxiety Empire magazine’s 2020 Kickstarter campaign.
Japanese digital artist and director Daito Manabe’s latest collaboration with UK electro-master Squarepusher
Baltic CG master Rimantas Lukavicius makes the case for Nike’s “Move to Zero” sustainability plan.
Casus Boloss (Stories of Conflicts in english) is a web-documentary which is dealing with geo-political issues.
African colours and characters explored in this film for the African Economic Forum.
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
Lots of painting onto stills and live action. Directed in collaboration with Ruff Mercy for the basketball world cup 2019 for DAZN creative
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
Cool blue treatment of testimony from an paramedic in Doddridge County, West Virginia.
Follow a 3D stroke as it draws on shapes and objects. Nice work from Buck.tv.
This is the tale of Nomex & Kevlar.
Lovely abstract animation by toast.tv.
Beautiful colours and lightness of animation touches.
This is the true story of Estelle, a refugee who was reconnected with her sister after 16 years of separation – with the help of Refugees United, a tech non-profit that connects families separated by war, conflict and disaster.
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 employee shares her story on her direct connection to the Apollo 11 mission.
Video about dirt build up in engines. Not sure who made this but has potential.
Great title sequence & great Doc exposing the tale behind Cambridge Analytical and Facebook.
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.
The six-part CNN docuseries has a title sequence directed, designed and animated by David Penn.
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
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.
Learn about the accomplishments of Josephine Baker in this quirky animation by Culture Trip
Dave Penn was invited to conceive and produce a title sequence for an Oxford Films feature documentary.
An interesting style here, mixing hand drawn animation with 3D renders
Really nice work here from Buck on this piece for Aperol
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.
A great quirky music video here from Olly Robertson for Cable street collective
Some really realistic-looking anthropomorphic avocados in this quirky animation for wholly guacamole.
Some really nice 3D popup animations integrated into live action shots here, from Martijn Hogenkamp.
Some really nice edgy, quirky cutout animation here from Yellowlab
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.
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.
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
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.
Some great work here from ATK PLN – utilizing a variety of techniques to raise awareness of drunk driving.
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.
An exploration of the disparity and the difference that gender, regardless of party, can make.
If ideas were politicians this is how they would look like. CHOOSE WELL!
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.
A quirky and succinct piece of animation from IV for lifepoint health, featuring doggos.
Some really nice work here in a variety of styles from IV.
Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis sucks! One mans journey with the disease echoes—”I’m still here.”
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.
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
The second film in Golden Wolf’s campaign for Western Union, produced in collaboration with BBH and Stink Films.
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?
Examine the forgotten history of how our federal, state and local governments unconstitutionally segregated every major metropolitan area in America through law and policy.
From NPR Invisibilia podcast, this animation explores the fascinating mystery of locusts and our sense of self.
Some really nice work here from Borderlands – using a variety of techniques to create a dynamic video for amnesty international.
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.
Great work by BluBlu Studios in this animation about sustainable fiber solutions.
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.
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
A really nice animation from Squarefish – great use of textures, colour and character animation.
A very interesting piece taken from the NPR Invisibilia podcast – this animation explores whether expectations can have a profound impact on our own lives.
Some very nice maps and transitions in this teaser for the lost gold of WW2 by Roger.TV
Some very nice transitions and textures in this animation by Dresscode
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
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.
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.
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.
This film for Florida Hospital mixes cinematic visuals and holographic CG to imagine an inspiring future of healthcare.
This piece was made to promote awareness about a very serious psychological issue, Anxiety.
Good Soil is a non-profit organization dedicated to feeding and caring for the children of India.
A nice blend of styles and techniques in this little animation fo Little Muffins by Chris Kelly.
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.
Some lovely line art and transitions in this film for wordpress by Caresse Haaser.
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!
Animated by Rich Hinchcliffe while at First 10 Digital (first10.co.uk) for PUMA (puma.com).
A very friendly, crafted aesthetic achieved here in this animation for Engage Foundation by combining hand-drawn elements with 3D animation. By Rich Hinchcliffe.
Lots of plexusy goodness in this techy, data driven animation for Prozone by Rich Hinchcliffe.
Some really elegant design and transitions in this animation for Prescribe Wellness.
Some great animated data here from Tendril in this animation for Open Text about information!
Great stopmotion character-driven animation for Sue Ryder, directed by George Shelbourn
Three patients discuss how IBD affects the way they view their bodies and share tips for keeping a positive outlook.
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 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
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.
Another great sequence for The Division – by Patrick Clair
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.
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.
Beautiful abstract animation that fits the concept perfectly from Golden Wolf!
Some really nice technical/data driven motion graphics from We Are Royal about coffee!
This is a 2.30min commercial made for Audi and BBH. Celebrating their amazing dominance of Le Mans.
DBLG were tasked to create an animated film that communicated the inequalities that women face globally.
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.
An original music video of “The Lion,” written and performed by Benjamin Scheuer (and Escapist Papers), directed by Peter Baynton.
Minimal and abstract Op-Art patterns work together with large typography creating a dramatic result.
Carlab is a research lab created by the large automotive supplier Valeo, which studies future innovating car equipment.
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 is a social campaign targeting Australian citizens. Its goal is to fight ageism – discrimination related to old age.
“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.”
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
Paul Goldsmith’s final project on the School of Motion Animation Bootcamp course.
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.
This fun animation shows how a simple blood test can help diagnose the disease and determine the right treatment plan.
Some very nice 2D motion graphics mixed with live action to make for a pretty dynamic piece for Shopify
Some really nice technical/data motion graphics to sound in this animation from Yanic Fridman.
From a seed to war, from meat to love, from indifference to apocalypse. An attempt to capture the world in a nutshell.
A powerful and moving film telling the true story of the Pearcey family for the Princess Alice Hospice
Animade’s latest project in collaboration with UKTV intricately traverses a lifetime of stories.
An ancient letter, written at a time when beauty and hope were difficult to see in the world.
Trase is a supply chain transparency initiative that transforms our understanding of globally traded agricultural commodities.
The Association for the Prevention of Torture commissioned Nice and Serious to create an animation to explain safeguards in the first hours of police custody can prevent torture and convince States of the need for a universal protocol based on non-coercive interviews.
Some really nice work from Toil, utilizing tracking, 3D models and a blueprint/techy aesthetic.
Some really nice grungy, hand drawn retro treatment to basketball footage in this main title for “Shut up and dribble”
Her child is just 1, but she knows soon he will be perceived as a big black boy. Can she overcome the systems she feels are in place to oppress her young son?
This short film aims to highlight the importance of compostable materials with regards to changing the way we package goods in the future.
Great animation outlining how we can all make a difference by reducing, reusing and recycling!
For as little as $2 a month, join the motionographer Patreon community and shape Motionographer’s future!
An impressive animation from director Elliot Lim, utilizing a paper cutout aesthetic.
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.
Great explainer about what causes heartburn directed by Sarah Beth Morgan.
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
Titles created by Niels Prayer
Character animation by Quentin Laville
Visuals & Music by Niels Prayer
Some really nice transitions in this series of brand vignettes for BBC knowledge.
By WeAre17
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.
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.
This is SAUSAGE, the multi award winning and Oscar long-listed animated short film, directed by Robert Grieves.
These are the original sequences animated by Robert Grieves.
The series won Outstanding Motion Design at the 2015 Emmys.
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.
This animation was commissioned by the Forestry Commission Scotland to communicate the significant contribution of forestry to the economy.
Lots of numbers and data in this animation for Bentley University by Toil.
Studio: Toil
Design: Michael Frederick
Animation:Joey Korenman, Conor Collier, ME
Rodeo FX delivered over 100 visual effects shots for Dave Meyers dystopian vision of Justin Timberlakes Supplies”.
Art Directed by Erik Gagnon.
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.
A nice piece of motion graphics from Moving Colour detailing highlights from the life of Katherine Johnson realised in a quirky cutout style.
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/
A visual essay exploring the future technology of synthetic biology.
By Vasil Hnatiuk
“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
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
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
Sex, religion and envy how Freud and Jungs frenetic friendship tore itself apart. Directed and animated by Andrew Khosravani. Produced by Kellen Quinn.
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
Large headline type edges along US landscapes and GV’s from the show. Nice tracking and compositing job from Elastic.
A great rant using big named players shot on greenscreen and collaged with lots of GFX.
This film explains the simplicity and the complexity of pi/3.14 in quite a beautiful way.
Director/animator: Rebecka Taule
Music: Jim Zamerski
A metaphorical tale of a new planet discovered that perhaps shows us how we can treat our own inhabitants.
Multiple recorded voices from AA meetings explored through hand-drawn animation.
By Buck
Nice 3d colourful animation with pulling and pushing assets into the scene.
By Lumbre
By Bite&Bark – Illustrations: Lee Roberts, Ash Spurr
3D: Alex Shackleton, Richard Taylor, Nick Quayle, Alex Hilbert
Animation: Alfonso Petrovita, Nick Quayle
Yest another great title from Patrick Claire and his colleagues at Elastic for the Netflix TV series.
Nice work from Territory Studios. Working across 15 sets, Territory delivered over 100 assets for onset playback
Film on the history and future of Audi’s light technology. Lots of motion graphics and trapcode plugins.
A fab mix of luxury items and warfare which has elements of James Bond titles.
Elastic
Director | Patrick Clair
Client | The Ink Factory
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.
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.
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.
Credifux Brand Film by Gen Design Studio, featuring some great use of 3D dynamics.
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
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
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.
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
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)
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 is the world’s favourite colour”
Moth worked with CNN and Dr. James Fox to produce a film for their Colour Scope series.
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
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
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
Lots of complex data, globes and graphs in this one. Great work from Animagic Studios.
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
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
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.
A excerpt from Midway: Plastic Island, a short documentary produced at CNN, designed and animated by Ignacio Osorio.
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.
A fun animation from LooseKeys on their creative process utilizing a fun line art style.
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.
A personal project from Nas Alhusain detailing her observations on creativity.
A personal project from Terrence Ginja Martinho based on the book “Man Meets Woman.”
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
A series of interstitials on the do’s and definitely do nots of travelling the world. Some quirky 2d character animation from Picnic studios
Some playful hand drawn animations over live action from Gentleman Scholar.
A characterful explainer from Simon Tibbs integrating dynamic 3d coins into a quirky 2d world.
Some playful, characterful cutout animation from Blink my Brain.
Some nice hand drawn kinetic typography from Simon Tibbs
Client: RBS
Agency: Sapient Razorfish
Role: Animation & Illustration
Sound: OBR Studios
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
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
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
Beautiful 3D animated teaser for “Electric Dreams” coming soon on Amazon Prime. By We Are Royale.
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.
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
Another stop-mo-foam monster with foxes and squirrels and a hopelessly naive snowman. Great work from the team
at Parabella.
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
A personal project from Simon Tibbs paying homage to his all time favourite GTA radio advert, featured on Vice City.
In this quirky animation, Headspace’s co-founder, Andy Puddicombe, describes the stillness that’s present in all our minds.
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’s Christmas short film – a story that illustrates the joy of a shared moment.
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.
Lot’s of animation styles combined to create this quirky animation to raise awareness for testicular cancer. Great work from StudioAKA
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.
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.
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.
The music video for Bonobo’s song, “Cirrus,” is a beautifully surreal video collage created by British animator Cyriak.
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.
Amazing work from Parabella and Blinkink on the trailer for The Great British Bake Off.
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
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
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.
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.
Lively animation from Laundry, using black and white photographic collage elements, with overlaid colours and annotations.
Your rights in the US using the 4th & 5th Amendment. Produced and Directed by: Dress Code. Lead Animator: Wes Ebelhar
Beautiful & minimal animation featuring the history of our forms of transport by Colin Hesterly.
Interesting animation promoting Russian online magazine about technology, science & culture.
Motion Alexey Frukta, Design Ooli Mos, Alexey Frukta, Producer Artem Ignatyev & Audio Vasiliy Filatov
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.
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.
New advert for Audi with tracking and strong atmosphere.
Artist: Faultline.
Animation from Bungalow revealing Rhodes a very personal musical memory from a room in a psychiatric hospital.
Really good character animation with nice poses and attitudes according to emotions. Big fan!
Directed by Oddfellows
Nice animation. What kind of green are you?
Produced by Sarah-Grace Mankarious and design by Rafael Mayani. Commissioned by CNN International.
Interesting mix of 3D projected, at least appearing to be projected onto live action.
Production Company: Pecubu Productions, Inc.
Director: Andy Hall
Playful retail spot of architectural visualization for a residential tower in Tel Aviv.
3D & VFX: Yambo Studio & Yaniv Gorali.
Animated intro video for MediaMolecule’s Twitch stream combining live action with playful animation.
Animation/Direction: Dan Castro
Illustration: Rex Crowle
Split screen of graphics and imagery to convey the message.
Colourful and dynamic motion graphics by Donghyun Lee.
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
Joyful little animation from Mathieu Libman – which showcase a wide range of styles and techniques.
Really nice set of collaged animations from Ogilvy Pandora. Animation & production by Yell.
Chaotic spot for Tiscis sportswear collaboration with Nike called NikeLab x RT.
Directed by JN director Luca Finotti
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.
Nice little experimental animation based on posters by Ross Gunter. Animated & produced by Tiny Dog Creative using Newton Dynamics in After Effects.
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.
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
Very cute animated film using lots of different techniques & styles. A thought experiment in ethics. Vid for TED Ed & DIRECTED BY Eoin Duffy
It’s just a trapcode trip of particles and CGI. Amazing. Creative Director: Ian Heartfield. Creatives: Adrian Merz, Mark Bushnell. Agency: Nexus
Dots go wild. Artistic but still technical, with colour and energy. Agency: B-Reel. Creative Director: Chris Kelly Art Director: Colin Trenter
Sander van Dijk animates the poetry of Max Stossel. A simple concept of tracking UI and iconography to a phone done neatly.
No its not a typo.
Hungarian advert for the new McD’s Cheese burger looks great. The animation, not the burger. Cooked & served Nerdo.
Titles using silhouettes cut out from stills.
From Elastic and directed by Angus Wall
Elastic produced these idents for the annual awards, directed by Patrick Clair. Lots of anarchic looped animations.
Nice short film, mixing animation to the live action. Love the idea of the postal card.
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
Celebrating the demise of the smoker. Lovely animation for the Center for Disease ControlAgency: ICF International . Directed by: Melanie Dorn & Sean McClintock
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s at least 5 years old now but still amazes. Performance by JayFunk.
Agency : Heaven
Production : LABANDEORIGINALE
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Blacklist and Studio AKA create this short for San Pellegrino. A fully 3D film but with a 3D style creates a charmingly lit environment.
Very interesting and poignant sequence on BBC screens. The Centenary of the Battle of the Somme: The Vigil Trailer – BBC Two
Creatives TBC
Great animation and great story about the rise to fame of Garratt. BBC Music commissioned ‘Contra‘ to tell the tale.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
A scary futuristic vision of how augmented reality could influence our lives perhaps? Created by Keiichi Matsuda.
A great montage juxapositioning unusual images using a lot of old archive footage. Directed by: Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia
Beautifully crafted title sequence by Beijing visual designer Zaoeyo (aka Xiaolin Zeng, aka Mike Zeng) detailing insects constructed with glassy, organic materials.
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.
A mix of 2D and 3D animation in this stylish music video. Animation by Brunch & amazing Cinematography.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is na lovely little character piece from Gorilla Gorilla! for Informa about keeping online information safe.
Analytical, diagrammatic video in a 3D space by Jonathan Kim. Blueprints, lines and tech overlays provide a hi-res feel for this square installation.
Painted transitions and frames create artistic transitions for Underground, the new WGN America series. Done by Imaginary Forces.
Here is another animated film with lovely characters on a simple story by Gabriel H Fermanelli.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nice animation using the shape of a circle in all other different scene, by Chromosphere.
A great piece of work using many visual/shooting styles. Great voice-over script and sound design.
Production Company – The Sweet Shop
Director – SEGA
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.
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
Been meaning to post this one for a while. It’s from Elastic TV. A great mix of the banal and the political.
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.
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.
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.
Headphone systems might seem pretty simple to you and I but not if you look at this excellent animation from Paul Clements.
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.
Well that’s one way to get noticed. This Argentinian branding & entertainment studio seems to have a lot to shout about.
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.
From ‘Not to Scale’ and ‘Mirari’, these really nice short animations were commissioned by Ogilvy London showcasing Unilever’s messaging around sustainability.
Not to Scale, New York produced these tasty idents for Skoda’s sponsorship of the race. Directed by Colin Hesterly
Monstro redefine the heavily saturated tech video with an epic galactic painted feel. Data has never felt so orange.
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.
Lifting text pealing away from a newspaper to form the logo of the Arab current affairs show.
Different, almost unnoticeable take on the pop-up book idea. Nice tracking of a plane with complex CGI makes for a nice mix.
CGI model of an imaginary machine creating ideas. Bright colours and cute extras add a light charm to a heavy metal object.
MK12’s programme graphics for the Heist. Using a blueprint plan and “Catch Me If You Can” style text transitions.
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.
What seems to be a fine piece for a hypothetical project by Yu Hyeji using low poly 3D forms. Greenpeace awareness film.
Beautfully designed film, with a illustrative feel but created in CGI for Nature’s Path by Burcu & Geoffrey.
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
A well crafted piece of animation and sound design.
Direction, Design, Animation – Dave Penn
Sound Design – James Locke-Hart
Script – Paddy Bird & Dave Penn
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.
Nata Metlukh creates a hand-drawn short, morphing through different perspectives in colourful city environments.
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.
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’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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Assaf Benharroch illustrates a painterly animated piece, with an imaginative use of lighting and painterly textures.
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.
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.
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.
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+
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
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.
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.
Interesting tale with limited animation but with great visuals and lighting directed by W. Scott Forbes.
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.
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“
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.
Stop motion title sequence for the ending of the Lego Movie. Nice layout, positioning and camera movement give a childish subject a mature look.
Nicely shot and conceived advert for the UK Goverment’s promotion of the latest broadband services coming our way.
How the world might be viewed in 2025. Nice graphical representation of elements together.
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.
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.
Nice work from Shilo, based on simple handdrawn animations tracked to a breakfast scene.
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.
Watercolour-like animation using 3D characters but rendered in a very painterly fashion. By Little Fluffy Clouds.
Nice infographic film from Özgür Atmaca which shows how even graphs and charts can look quite dynamic if well animated.
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.
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.
Essentially, spy stuff. Lots of overlays and tracking footage and data gives it that high-tech espionage look. By Imaginary Forces
Map title sequence, simple idea nicely executed in a fun, crafted way by Imaginary Forces.
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.
Simple idea of diagrams on paper done very well in true Imaginary Forces style, similar in fashion to their popular Rubicon title.
Nice hand-drawn colorful animation with a mixture of techniques by Felix Massie
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.
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
French TV idents, spinning around the logo to reveal various happenings. A variety of creative beautifully modelled 3D environments by Roof Studio.
Nice idea to frame a simple infographic by Animade. Mainly character based, but the divided blocks allow a mix of results.
Music promo for The Leisure Society by Persistent Peril. Simple idea beautifully crafted, getting more complex and quirkier as the track builds.
An explainer video for Mindjet. A typical infographic script, but a character centred twist and clever transitions give it a different feel.
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.
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.
A great little infographic about global real estate
Project Management: Veni Video Vici
Creative Direction / Illustration: Mauco Sosa
Animation: Peter Cobo
Pepsi Max surprised commuters in London with a series of augmented reality screenings and then putting this film together after their recording live reactions
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.
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
More excellent motion graphics from Antibody. Directed by Patrick Claire
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.
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.
Lovely animated film from Radley Yeldar and winner of IVCA 2014 awards for best animated film.
Lots of rotoscoping, puppet-pinning, distortions and lots of other clever time-consuming tricks in this great piece of work from Rino Stefano Tagliafierro
Textured and strongly lit animation bring a certain eastern european feel to this animation by Martin Zivocky.
Short sting for the “Havana” section, using flat colours in 3D with wonderful camera movement to transition.
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.
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.
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.
Flat coloured 2D animation but cleverly animated to give a 3D feel. A warm colour scheme and soft shapes give it a welcoming feel.
Music video, using CGI and tracking to image map the singer’s face on to famous film clips.
Hand drawn cartoon elements tracked on to nicely shot footage of Paris, gives a friendly upbeat feeling to an urban landscape.
Hand drawn simple animation, with ink and paper depict a cut-down TED talk, by Moth Collective.
Chalk board style animation by Art & Graft, describing one boy’s experience using animation of chalk lines and clever transitions.
Title design for Pixar’s Up by Janice Ahn. Colourful and playful with quantised colouring to give it a modern graphic feel.
An isometric style animated short film with glossy plastic texturing which has character moments and infographic moments. Lovely colours and lighting.
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 team behind the hugely successful Chipotle film (watch it here) are back with a new film in shiny CGI. All big budget stuff here.
A Big mixture of CGI, stop motion, animation and live action seemless mix in this crafted advert for the Sun.
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.
An 80’s themed ident, using painterly effects and smooth animation, give it modern reworking of an 80s style ident.
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.
An infrographic about Live video animations delivered via instagram. The colour palette and condensed font give a very modern look with slick animation.
Looks like Rubicon but with a figure orchestrating. Another animation from Marcus Eckert.
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.
Retro style graphics in a 2D graphic style contributes a swinging soundtrack. A fifties style animation similar to Catch Me if You Can.
Titles by Dvein, fromthe Spanish film director Kike Maíllo’s retro-futuristic sci-fi thriller.
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.
Rainbow colours in 3D forms characterise this animation by Production Studio: Ars Thanea, Director: Karol Kolodzinski & 3D Artist: Patryk Habryn.
lots of watercolour washes bring in the video which itself has been treated with the watercolour look.
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.
Short animated film by Philip Watts combining ’tilt shift’ cityscapes, traditional animation and some great little visual effects. Beware of the little green monster.
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.
A short animation made for Penguin Books to help promote ‘Is That A Fish In Your Ear?’ by David Bellos. Animation by Matthew Young.
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’.
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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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.
Very much has the feeling of an old 50’s animation. Concept and Animation: Andrea Stinga, Federico Gonzalez.
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.
Nice little infographic animation from Binalogue on the launch of the British Council’s social media strategy pack.
Beautiful abstract film celebrating the OFFF festival of design, photography and motion
Solely text leads this short conveying facts about the American brewing industry. The nicely placed text and font choices manages to keep the interest.
A lesson in transitions here, using 2D motion graphics composited and interacting with 3D elements for a trailer for an arcade game app.
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.
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 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.
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.
A charming film by Grant Orchard using papier mache and lo-fi props to make this hand-made cardboard video on recycling.
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 nicely shot and animated homage to the individuals who have produced landmark titles for features in the past.
Quirky German animation with George Melieres overtones. Direction and animation: Jeroen Houben & Jurjen Versteeg.
Simple, in style and colour animation but with clever technicalities and expertly executed.
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.
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.
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.
A great little promotional video from Binalogue, relating the pleasures of Planet IFE an inflight entertainment & advertising company.
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.
Quintessentially British film from the Royal College, animating line drawn illustrations.
Branding idents for the tv channel with a high female demographic. Shiny things, lipsticks, handbags, all that stuff girls like.
Mixing simple live action with animation to create 10 small colourful numerical idents.
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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A find by Mr. Rob Edmonds about rail saftey using quirky block coloured 3D animation to give a graphic flat traditional styling.
This is an amazing piece of work. The camera movement, depth of field, modelling and explosions work really well.
Not sure you really need weather forecasting for the Arabian Gulf, but if you did this is the one.
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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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.
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.
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.
Another video looking like a 70s instructional manual, but nicely packaged and expertly done. I always like anything isometric.
Nice combination of 2D and 3D to create a hi-tech styled commercial for a magazine app.
Infographic about the risk of AIDS/HIV in the third world. The film uses typography and simple graphics to tell the story.
Infographic about environmentalism. Stylized CGI and clever transitional animation create a clear yet lovely backdrop for the information by Uli Henrik Streckenbach.
Animation based on Vahram Muratyan’s stunning book of illustrations, very flat simple and graphic and colourful.
By Nord
As far as i can make out most of this promo was achieved in camera with very little apparent past-production.
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.
A cardboard diorama. Always nice. A simple model, with the softness of cardboard makes a industrial production process seem friendly.
Nice title sequence using interesting motion on hockey notation and jump cut editing
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.
‘High School’ doodles animate in to provide a young naive feel to the hand-drawn titles.
Simple animated lego characters sit on an environment of an animated moleskin background. Fun and quirky with simple but sophisticated animation.
Demo reel for Sander can Dijk. Involves some nice kaleidoscopic 2D graphics and some 3D. Also a nice photo rip idea half way through.
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.
“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.
Great little animated piece especially if you denote all the ways the water icon is used
My weakspot, flat coloured isometric graphics. A couple nice transitions and I’m sold. Graphics, people, graphics.
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.
Nice simple animation for a Nokia video by Punga. Using bold colours and simple flat isometric animation, allow plenty of space for text.
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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Advertising using tracking and compositing of motion graphics and text to recreate science, music, mathematics and space.
Nice bit of tracking and great cinematography but still slightly tongue in cheek – I think?
directed / edited / vfx – Dimitris Ladopoulos, Spiros Rasidakis
Manvsmachine created these 10 abstract collisions for Toyota sponsorship for C4 programming.
Production company:Nexus & Audio: Echolab
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.
A lot of work has gone into this intel commercial Smith & Foulkes (nexus productions).
Very good use of presenter in a studio cut with very stylised graphics. Design & Animation: Oz Smith
Creative Director: Greg Millar for BBC sport.
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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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.
I was more impressed with this when I watched it mute but it’s still an impressive piece by Colin Rozee with the soundtrack.
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.
A short film compositing footage, tracking photography and including 3D elements across a variety of landscapes.
Very clever and atmospheric short film with very high production values directed by Carl E. Rinsch.
Winner of the best use of displacement map/compound blur ever – Micaël Reynaud, with portraits by Michael Jang. Stay with it, kids.
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.
Commercial animating with a CGI card texture to create origami style movement, folding into/from the box packaging.
Mixture of stop-motion and CGI to create a 3D children’s diorama as a playful setting for the car.
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Graphic titles combined with sand tinted archive to produce a brief history of Saudi Arabia.
Conceptual trailer for female missionary who left American Civil war ravaged Virginia for China. Well crafted trailer.
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.
Slick use of simple 3D use lights and heavy reflections to creative colourful graphic visuals.
Titles incoporating archive stills by placing them against a plane of breaking glass. Not for the very squeamish…
Video installations at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum.
Tests using the Visible Human Project data – see original video here. And creating a 3D model with the CAT scan.
Title animation using purely motion graphics and clever transitions with a small colour pallete to great effect. Lots of documents.
Pinterest lets you organize and share all the cool things you find on the web. Like things your find on sketchpad…
Start here.
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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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..)
I guess these guys got in before airmiles added their fees & taxes. Great little sequence which must have been months in the planning.
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.
A study in high speed photography or clever morphing of stills using twixter plugin for After Effects.
3D schematics are layouts of the cruise ships give an investigative look to the Dispatches look at Cruise ship employment
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This is just a great, heart warming advert combining kids drawings by means of camera tracking and clever compositing.
Test into a simple pen line which can then be rotated into three dimensions.
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Highlights from big series by Nutopia. Good example of use of drama reconstruction which surprisingly was all shot in S. Africa.
Just lovely simple advert with actor, one camera and the sunlight. Like the brashness of the jump cuts.
Animation morphing CG oil to create shapes and settings for animation and archive footage.
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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Sculpted steel tubes shape the car body and details as the 3D camera traverses through the space.
Playful surreal advert using 3D to follow a family’s journey through the sky and into the building of car.
Cinema 4D CGI test into global illumination. Lighting the shapes from within to create colour and light within the composition.
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Car Commercial using pencil sketching mapped on to a 3D service to create a graphical feel and advertise craftmanship
Tracking data graphics over satellite imagery to get a sci-fi technological feel.
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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Flat maps displaced in using cgi for American West series.
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Animated pitch using a form of parallaxing to create an extreme slow-motion effect of a horse mid-jump.
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CGI animation documenting the creation of the earth in a scientific way, yet narratively based around religion.
Discovery channel ident using 3D composited over blue-print backgrounds to create a diagramatic data look.
Advert using film frames and alot of 3D to create a fast-paced adventure through their TV programming.
Live action is tracked in certain points, and medical 3D animation is overlayed to look like X-Rays.
Commericial using trapcodes (I think) to create medical style 3D animations for Momentum Health.
A nicely designed graphic presentation using a mixture of flat shaded 3D and 2D animation.
Inventive use of overlaying an animation of stiched together Google maps images.
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.
Technical graphics and kaleidoscopic animation provide a data heavy car commercial.
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.
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Cartoon Network ident using retro stylings and parallax manipulation of photographs.
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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Static titles using close-ups of paper and documents with subtle animation to create a coded typographical sequence.
Old diagrams are animated in 2D and 3D to create a vintage looking title sequence with a graphic feel.
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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This sequence block shades the live action and adds it together with animation to create a very bold graphicly styled sequence.
Graphical sequence using buzzing numbers to convey telephone hacking and voicemail decoding for Channel 4’s Dispatches.
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Film title sequence using flat colouring with subtle 3D to create a retro graphic feel
Classic title sequence using live action footage placed carefully with credit typography
Beautiful camera work, interesting fashion and left-field additions to the landscape.
Lively website inspired by Victorian posters, which moves in sections, up and across.
Link to this here.
Montage of our Timewatch special using canvases decorated with photos and memorabilia to create rostrum style moves matching the narrative.
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You have a massive archive and a story to tell – this is one way to do it.
Link to this here.
Presenting an exhibition in an exciting way, this Flash website brings life to old manuscripts.
Link to this website here.
Interesting interactive website, which initially is a bit like driving a car when you are unfamiliar with the controls.
Try it yourself – click here.
Inspiration log, link-dump, moodboard resource, interweb thingy…
Visit Stefan’s site here.
Illustrator Eduardo Recife’s commercial works, a collage feast for the eyes.
Click here to see more.
Titles for Robin hood mixing traditional painterly techniques with a modern twist.
End credits rotoscoping frames in a hand-drawn ink style over video footage.
Promotional video using extreme close-ups and camera angles with VFX to produce an moving journey through music.
Medical CGI sequences explaining the effects on drugs within the body.
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Classic Title sequence for True Blood. Using a mixture of archive and shot footage with a edgy heavily graded look. Thanks, Bolex.
A complex mixing of styles and worth a view for the design if not the message. Watch on motiongraphics.
Series of quick and simple videos using cut out animation on a plain background to convey a message by Digital Kitchen.
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.
Superb use of the pop up book to animate this tale.
Directed by Psyop.
Titles for american sitcom using text from a book to animate the characters and type throughout.
Text and animation added together to form the speech without any photos or footage.
Colourful mix of live action and flat shaded 3D animation in a faux-educational style.
Programme graphics using parallaxing techniques to add movement to stills.
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Channel 4 promo using Google Street View as a basis for inserting video into a static street scene.
Clever and subtle use of repeated computer animation in to synchronise to a rhythm.
WWF advert using CGI rope to create shapes and figures, showing how everything is simply connected.
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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.
Visual Complexity is a site which houses a complex and varied range of sources of data visualisations.
Animation displaying only typography, using a 3D camera move to scroll over a large canvas of text.
3D scan through the length of a Human Body, compiling photographs to create an animation.
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.
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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.
eBooks are introduced by using CGI to look like stop frame animation in a colourful and playful way.
Very short animation tests, all one second logo, showing a variety of simple looks using minimal colouring.
Simple branding idents, placing the icons in different environments. Also has some nice split screen action later on.
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‘.
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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.
CGI glass logos added into different environments in order for a variety of branding tv channel idents.
Sky Sports idents mixing live action footage with CGI smashing glass. The figures were rotoscoped and added into 3D environments.
Shot through oil and water to create reflections and simple refraction in a live action experiment.
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Retro styled music video comprised of over 60 fictional movie title cards.
The pressure of being responsible for the studio music often tiptoes the fine line between kudos and embarrassment. Continue Reading →
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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.
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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BBC documentary about drawing and how artists respond to the world around them via a pencil and some paper.
Music video using dominos to create the animation, in a kind of modern day pointilism.
Music video combining a mixture of live action features, tracking human features on to crows.
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 is a Swedish app creation studio, but I prefer to think of them as traditional digital toy makers. Continue Reading →
Music video mixing live action children with composited cartoon animation for a fun and playful outcome.
A great little idea which was the brainchild of Robert Edmonds at Rocket Science Group. Graphics & compositing by TDD
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