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Objectified is a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?

Disney-Pixar’s teaser for their upcoming feature film UP.

*** not work-safe if your speakers are on.

Don’t burn Kevin Smith … especially at Comic Con, lol!

Acidtwist updates with amazing new work.

A piece infused with some great, wry humor created by the TEG blokes in the UK, Bitstate. Completed for the 20/120 program at this year’s Promax/BDA conference.

Great updates from Nervo:

This set of 6 animations is a small branding package we have created for Zune Creative. The animated set will essentially work as interstitials, which the brand will use at events and other situations where other videos need to be accompanied by the Zune brand.

The brief for this project was quite open, which led us to explore different animation techniques and a more subjective concept. The Zune Creative team granted us a lot of freedom from the start, including creating the music and sound effects. Our approach was to connect various abstract associations to music: from relating it with the pleasure of eating candy (Zune Sweets), to the idea of users communicating and sharing music (Zune Hair), to the idea of tranferring music from one place into another, sharing (Zune Boxes) all the way to the idea of change, adaptation and collage of tastes, personalities, preferences / customization (Zune Liquid & Cages).

- Nando Costa

Oktober performs a test … for National Foundation for the Deaf.

Twenty Films, one hundred and twenty seconds a piece Theme: Truth vs. Deception.  The 2cd annual collection includes a renowned set of directors from Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, London, and Germany including the likes of Matt Tragesser, Bran Dougherty-Johnson, Rob Chiu, Chris Hewett, Mark Yamamoto, and Mark Szumski.

Finish Post created this 40 sec promo for BBC1’s new 4 part mini series House of Saddam, an intimate portrait of his inner circle.  The melting was created with Maya fluids and Maya particles with additional live paint/liquid fx composited in Flame.

From L.A to Tokyo … not new but worth checking the Overground Broadcasting trailer.

Another well executed motion graphic intense website for Black Star Club created by Sensegraphy

The Brooklyn Digital Foundry is a full-service Digital Media Firm offering creative solutions for graphic design, brand identity, custom websites, computer visualization, marketing materials and video production.

A couple of new trailers to check out : Frank Miller’s The Spirit and Christian Bale starring Terminator

Amazing intro to the new Warhammer Battle March trailer … unfortunately the rest is all in-game.

Ars Thanea rocked the house with the launch of Bacardi Original Mojito! Check out the site designed & developed in Poland, just mojito your way through the registration, it’s worth it.

NERD : Spaz … via videos.antville.org … awesome.

More from Smith & Foulkes : This time direction and animation for Coke : Unity.

I attended the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition this weekend and came across painter Paul Robert Turner who’s work completely blew my mind … a high level of impact when standing infront of his 38″ x 36″ canvases.

Check out the reel of Toronto based Inferno Artist Winston Lee who has worked for Head Gear, Spy and The Mill among many other studios.

Toronto based Meldmedia updated with an interactive piece for TBWA and Nissan Versa.