Hideaki Hosono; Toyota Prius: Harmony

Hideaki Hosono recently directed this campaign for Toyota Prius: Harmony. Humans conveyed as landscape and textures, over 1 million people were created from 200 extras.
Also watch: Harmony Making-of | Prius MPG
Some of Hideaki’s other works include: Achieve Zendough and his feature debut; Donju (Donju trailer | Donju site)

Maxim Zhestkov: New short Recursion + new site.

Russian director/artist Maxim Zhestkov recently updated his site with a great new short: Recursion.

Albert’s Speech

An epic adventure in the world of the best man as seen from the inside out.

New Brand New School x 2

Brand New School has been busy. Here are two of their latest spots; Target Field: Target asked BNS to create an animated sequence for the newly constructed Target Field, home of baseball’s Minnesota Twins.
Brizo Faucets License to Dream: created for advertising agency Young & Laramore as part of its “License to Dream” campaign […]

UP THERE

UP THERE; a documentary on the lost art of hand painted wall advertising. I still see a few painted walls in Toronto and appreciate them each time.

iamwhoiam: 9.20.19.13.5.723378

And the mystery continues … who exactly is this group iamwhoiam? Whatever the case, I found their latest video titled 9.20.19.13.5.723378 intriguing and well, mysterious ; ) Happy hunting.

Prologue : The Losers

Prologue continues to impress, leading the way via fantastic illustration and animation, this time in the form of end titles, main titles, studio logos, character id’s for The Losers. Make sure to also check out the process images. Gorgeous work.

The Raven

The chase is on as a Chris runs for his life in The Raven, a sci-fi thriller by Ricardo de Montreuil set in an alternate and futuristic Los Angeles.

Polynoid: New work and reel

Polynoid updated with a new site, several new projects including their latest short Mem, and a reel for 2010. Polynoid was recently added to the impressive list of directors at Blacklist.

I Own You

For the music video of Wax Taylor’s I Own You, French studio SoLab created a whole little big world out of nothing. Well, out of something actually…