Bran Dougherty-Johnson: Reel 2013

Nice new design and animation up in the latest reel from Long Island, NY based Bran Dougherty-Johnson.

Polynoid: MTV IDOL

New work from Berlin based Polynoid, this time for MTV. “Excerpt from the original brief: The epic moment of transformations from something normal to an extraordinary creature, as well as super heroes or princesses in fairy tales do, music idols switched during their careers from being one of the crowd to be the one that everyone admires.”

Hong Kong Station – Treehouse Studio

Treehouse Studio have made this little short called “Hong Kong Station”. As its name suggests the film is about Hong Kong lifestyle. 4 levels of a metro station replicates 4 decades of Hong Kong. You can watch some pre-production sketches here.

Danny Yount: Semi-Permanent 2013 Titles

Let the Titles roll for 2013 eh? So much great work this year so far, not excluding these Opening Titles for the 2013 Semi-Permanent Festival, shot and designed by Danny Yount … “Shot on a 5D MKII and built in AE with no fancy plug-ins.”

Ghost Town: Linkin Park

L.A based Ghost Town has done some beautiful work for Linkin Park over the last few years including music videos and this recent packaging for their Living Things release … well worth taking a revisited look :: Ghost Town.



Raffi Simonian – Nau: Updates

The always impressive Raffi Simonian has updated www.nau.tv with a new site and new reel as well as www.raffisimonian.com with select frames.

Mitre M-Tech Glove / Paul Clements (RocknRoller Studios)

Paul Clements and RocknRoller Studios designed this series of super-slick commercials for Mitre.

Watch also the 2 other spots:

Tim Borgmann: VFX Design Reel

Some great, inspirational work from German VFX Artist Tim Borgmann: time to salivate XSI users ; )

Festina Lente Collective: Pitch Festival

Amsterdam based Festina Lente Collective recently rebranded the Pitch Festival 2013, collaborating with Baster / Bas Koopmans and other creatives.

Pitch Festival has grown into a respected name in the music festival world in the Netherlands. The alternative electronic music festival will take place for the third time on the Westergasterrein in Amsterdam. On the 5th and 6th July of this year there will be performances of: Bonobo, James Blake (live), Jamie Lidell, Baauer, Diclosure (live), Trentemøller (live) and Azealia Banks among others.

Festina Lente Collective – branding en digital services – specialised in identities, websites and (digital) campaigns. For more information, visit www.festinalentecollective.com.

Giant Ant – Target

Giant Ant deliver some fantastic animation styles once again for Target. “Target came to us with a fairly open brief to make some content for LA Live, an outdoor multi-screen venue in LA. We broke the piece into 5 second chunks using the logo as a transition point and spread them around the office to Matt, Nico, Shawn, Jorge, Jay and to a couple of our favourite collaborators, Phil Borst and Sander van Dijk.”