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Behind Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs’ 3D Food FX, at Popular Mechanics.

fxguide covers Rhythm Hues’ visual effects for Aliens in the Attic.

The directing-collective that brought us these raving rabbits for Groove Armada in ‘07, give birth to about a million more of the CG-varietal for Duracell. This spot also kick’s off the launch of the production outfit, Chuck & Lulu as they partnered with Pleix to drop this one for Oglivy, Paris.

Additionally, after finding a new home in the US with MJZ, Pleix rolls this very different type spot for Lexus Hybrid, “Hello Someday” in collaboration with the Mill, LA. You may have also caught a peak at some of this campaign with the strong series of web-films we recently posted from Elastic.

With the release of these two spots, Pleix continues to remind us of their broad range in both tone and technique.

BUNNY FUSION
Client: Duracell

Agency: Ogilvy, Paris
Executive Creative Director: Chris Garbutt
Creative Director: Nick Hine
Art Director: Antoaneta Metchanova
Account Team: Kim Ball, Anne Karcher
Agency Producer: Caroline Petruccelli

Production Company: Chuck & Lulu, Paris
http://www.chuckandlulu.com
Director: Pleix
Executive Producer: Edward Grann
Line Producer: Katharina Nicol
Post Producer: Sebastien Gros

Post Production: Digital District, Paris
Music: Apollo Studios, Montreal

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HELLO SOMEDAY
Client: Lexus – HS Hybrid

Agency: Team One Advertising
Creatives: Chris Graves-CCO/AD, Jon Pearce-GCD/CW
Agency Producer: Beth Hagen
Assistant Producer: Jenny Valladares
Production Company: MJZ
Director: Pleix
Director of Photography: Chris Soos
Exec Producer: Eric Stern
Line Producer: Caroline Pham
Editing Company: Rock Paper Scissors
Editor: Angus Wall
Assistant Editor: Anton Capaldo-Smith
Producer: Kimberly Colen
Music: Elias Arts
Mixer: Bob Gremore @ Juice
Post Production: The Mill / Los Angeles
Producer: Lee Pavey
Shoot Attend: Giles Cheetham, John Leonti
Lead Flame Artist: Tara Demarco
Assistant Artists: Mike Plescia, Becky Porter
CG Artists: Robert Sethi, John Leonti, Oscar Gonzalez, Yann Mabille, Meng-Yang Lu, Matt Longwell, Alex Hammond, Chris Bayol, Ross Urien, Juan Brockhaus

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If you’re not tech savvy enough to set up your own web portfolio from scratch, or you just don’t have the time, then using a site designed to host portfolios might be the solution for you. Many have a free version that might be enough for your needs, but also have Pro plans that allow for more functionality. Some have social or networking elements. But all of them allow you to get your work on the web without having to deal with web hosting and set up.

Below is a roundup of 10 websites that should help you decide which hosted portfolio platform is best for you.

Hosted Portfolio Specific Websites

Behance
http://www.behance.net
Quite a large following. Simple and robust system.
Cost: Free (In Beta)

Cargo
http://cargocollective.com
Nicely designed choice of existing themes with further customisation possible and ability to use your own domain name.
Cost: To be announce (In Beta)

Krop – Creative Database
http://www.krop.com/creativedatabase
Krop is also known for it’s jobs database so the portfolio galleries fit nicely into their offering. Sleek contemporary design with a choice of themes.
Cost: Free (Limited use) or $10 per month

Coroflot
http://www.coroflot.com
Boasting over 150,000 portfolios it has a broad cross section of users from the creative industry. Connected to a job board so you can find new gigs, and a simple gallery page layout for your folio.
Cost: Free

Carbonmade
http://www.carbonmade.com
Also boasting over 150,000 portfolios it has a simple and neat grid thumbnail gallery layout.
Cost: Free (Limited use) $12 per month (Pro version)

Arlo / Artists
http://arlosites.com/artists
Well designed custom themes and layouts to choose from. Able to further customise the page. Custom domain name possible.
Cost: $100 per year

Image Gallery Websites

DeviantART
http://www.deviantart.com
This site has the largest number of users. Targeted mainly towards artists, but believe me, any eight year old with a pencil drawing posts their art up on this site.
Cost: Free

Flickr
http://www.flickr.com
Initially designed for personal photo albums creation Flickr works equally well to show off your designs or artwork. If you like the idea of using Flickr in this way you might also like Ffolio
Cost: Free (Limited use)

Computerlove Gallery
http://www.cpluv.com
More famous for their great blog / design portal on what is the latest and greatest in creativity, you can also set up and show off your images with their profile galleries.
Cost: Free

Virb
http://www.virb.com
Virb is like a well designed Myspace. Designed to set up your own profile and connect with others it allows you to have Flickr style galleries to show off your images.
Cost: Free

So… Which one is your favourite? (Poll below)

Or let us know which ones we’ve missed and are worth mentioning.