Wonderful illustration and design work from Brazilian based Estúdio Alice.

Montreal based Gonk Films is a new production house focusing on music videos, short films, commercials and new media.

Great new WIP reel from Tesia Alexandra, plus a ton of inspiration on her site to check out, for studios such as Trollback + Company, Eyeball NYC, Interspectacular, Imaginary Forces, Bigstar and Superfad.

After six or seven years, the masterful GMUNK updated gmunk.tv with a new reel, that tells his role in each section … by the second!

Here is the latest from Psyop, this time for T. Rowe Price via JWT NY. Beautiful illustration and animation from Psyop as always.

Watch Ink | Watch Rice (thnx Shannon!)

Partizan’s Nabil directed Kanye West’s latest music video : Welcome to Heartbreak.

NY, NY based Rhino launched a new site, new reel and completely rebrands for 2009 …”Nearing a decade in the advertising and entertainment business, the entire team at rhinofx is pleased to announce that the studio is dropping off the f and x and changing its name to Rhino. A year after uniting with Gravity, one of Israel and Canada’s premier media development studios, Rhino has updated its name, identity, and vision to coincide with its dramatic and global evolution in both traditional and non-traditional work across TV, film, web, and mobile screens. While Rhino has always been known for its work in VFX and CG-oriented design and animation, the addition of Gravity’s resources has been a huge complement, adding more design depth and stylistic vision to their creative arsenal, and opening up unique opportunities for a variety of new media ventures, larger-scale pitches and projects, and global campaigns.”

Free Association, a Digital Agency based in DUMBO, brooklyn … recently launched a fresh new site with alot of great work: www.thinkFA.com

Fuel blends slow motion photography with 3D tomatoes in a CG environment for Leggos … “FUEL’s Angus Wilson, who supervised the on-set photography and was the lead Flame artist, explains that, “all the exploding tomatoes were real. We rigged the them with detonators and filmed them on the new high-speed ‘Phantom’ camera which shoots an incredible 1500 frames a second.”

1200 Buildings, 7 Million polygons, 64 Red Bulls and 9 Gallons of coffee went into Michigan based Hook‘s Toyota/Lexus Mindfield project.

Toronto based artist/illustrator Andrew Zbihlyj updated his site pieceofshow.com with great new work.

London based creative company Dixon Baxi continue their strong relationship with TV channel Five USA, rebranding the main channel for a second year.

Every year Special Guest, the multi-talented sibling of 1st Avenue Machine,creates a film that is an interpretation of the essence of the company: this year Vinicius Costa created a stop-motion gem : “Special Guest: The Journey”.

“I was visiting New York on business, and saw an interesting book on perfect packing,” says the Brazil-based Costa. “It occurred to me that just looking at someone’s luggage could tell you a lot about the owner’s personality. The idea stayed with me, and I started thinking of Special Guest as a suitcase full of unique techniques, options, and creative styles, all right there for the taking.”

40fakes launched The Strange High House in the Mist trailer for the Teaserland.com contest. Teaserland.com is an International Fake Trailers Festival, cool idea.