Tronic Studio: Santander Bank

NY based Tronic Studio created A Brick Tree Grows in London, for Santander Bank.
Tronic artists conducted extensive design research to find the formula to make the tree “feel” comfortable to the people in the environment. “Every element, from the texture of the trunk and branches to the shape of the leaves and their candy-coated crystalline […]

double g studios: T4 idents

London based double g studios won a competitive pitch to direct and animate 20 energetic idents for Channel 4’s T4. The personality of each robot was enhanced through costume design, choreography and their relationship with the new 3d logos. Here’s a mash up from the 20.

Gkaster becomes Bright Photon: Happy New Year

A belated Happy New Year video from one of my favourite motion designers, Gkaster who appears to have become Bright Photon. Lots of great work to see.

Sid Lee: Show Reel

Montreal, and now Toronto, Amsterdam and Paris based Sid Lee’s latest showreel is impressive.

Ricardo Montalban: Musicians With Guns

One long and arduous camera pan, quite hypnotic. I’m guessing this took a long time to render ; ) Musicians With Guns.

Nicholas Weigel and LAIKA/house for Toys R Us


If you’ve seen any patterns in my posts, you’ll know I’m a sucker for densely populated CG worlds. So when the h0liday Toys R Us campaign from LAIKA/house and director Nicholas Weigel (agency: Rosenbaum) came across my desk, I had to jump on it.

Weigel was last seen on Motionographer for his bang-up job on “The Amazing Flamenco Chef” (also known as “And Then There Was Salsa”) for Tostitos. (Read our interview with Weigel about the project. The spot was recently nominated for a 2010 Annie Award.) Before that, you might have caught Weigel’s signature style as the director of the Fusion Fall cinematic created at Freestyle Collective or as the animation director for “Naturally Juicy” created at Psyop.

This time around, Weigel and team were tasked with bringing Toys R Us’ beloved mascot Geoffrey to life, along with his sidekick Saint Nick (also fairly well-loved).

Feast your eyes on the spot, dig into some creative process images and read our interview with Nicholas Weigel here.

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Brand New School: Installations

Brand New School has been making great strides in the world of physical installations over the last several years. Their installation at JFK airport for Xbox 360 in 2008 is absolutely stunning; A match-up of a bear against a Sumo wrestler, a cheetah against a roller skater, and a gymnast against a Scottish warrior. […]

Moleskine

Whether you pronounce it “moleskin” or “moleskiiine”, it makes no difference in the awesomeness of this animated piece for Moleskine.

BUF: Enter The Void

If you haven’t seen Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void, I highly recommend you do. Here are some of the VFX that Paris/L.A based BUF created for the film. Beauty and Horror, Life and Death, Love and Hate, Psychedelia and Reality all juxtaposed within a beautiful Tokyo backdrop.
Here is also the opening credits for the movie […]

Spy Films: Batelco “Infinity”

Here is Spy Films‘ latest spot. 3 minutes long. Called Batelco “Infinity”. Directed by Alex & Steffen. Making-of.