Paris based ChezEddy recently completed the trailer for the new Driver game “San Francisco” for Ubisoft. Fantastic CG work built by a 30 person team over 2 months …”it was kind of a mission impossible, but we made it !!” Great results!
Minneapolis based MAKE have updated with a new site, a great new reel and this Show Opener for the Palm Springs International ShortFest which will run Tuesday June 22nd through Monday June 28th …”We approached this year’s opener with a very gritty 2D film Noir style. The piece is mainly done in traditional hand drawn animation with some 3D elements and after effects compositing.”
I’m not posting this because the first few words spell out “Paris” and “A Plane” on the day I fly to Paris, on a plane, to go to OFFF. But I do LOVE the coincidence ; ) This looks great, its a trailer for a new show with Ed Banger Records, a web-series, following the whole Ed Banger crew as they discover New York, the American club scene and are exposed to their rising success in the U.S.
Plenty of new and beautiful work to see up at Filipe Carvalho’s site; www.randomthoughtpattern.com … Filipe is a motion designer/director based in Portugal.
Loving the new site for photographer and art director João Sousa which was a Gold winner at the Portuguese Creative Club Festival. Site by the talented This Is Pacifica.
While you print all those posters, you might want to enjoy one of the weirdest music videos of the year, directed by Gerson Aguerri with After Effects art by Gloria Gil. The band is Los Massieras and song: Boogity Boogity Boogity.
Subway Time is an awesome animated short film by Dongzhen Li, a student of the Beijing Film Academy. You might also want to watch the making of video. (via Directors Notes)
Brand Love is the portfolio of Renee Rotkopf, a NYC-based creative director with an infectious passion for ideas, design, branding, user experience and social media.
Something Left Something Taken is an animated dark comedy about the encounter between a vacationing couple and a man whom they believe to be the Zodiac Killer. Written, directed, animated and designed by Tiny Inventions, that is Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata. (via Cartoon Brew)
Here is Army, the first episode of Benedi Yann’s series about Giants and the untold truth about them and their conflicts with the human being. Directed by Benedi Yann and Celine Desrumaux. Sound design: David Kamp.
Nexus Productions’Johnny Kelly created this fun film for YouTube Play, a celebration of original digital creativity organised by YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum, with selected videos to be showcased on both YouTube and at the Guggenheim. Using a combination of stop frame animation and dynamic camera work, Johnny designed each world to mirror the creative diversity of content made by YouTubers. Johnny added, ” I wanted to try and capture that down the rabbit hole feeling you get when watching YouTube – you start by watching something innocent like a music video, then another video catches your eye and before you know it you’ve spent your fourth hour watching videos of pandas playing pianos.”
TRISEC experiment fonts were born from the first collaboration between Sorin Bechira and Stefan Romanu; Basic, Metallic, Organic and Conservateur are all gorgeous.
Ronda is an Argentina based animation studio, founded three years ago by Miguel Cesti and Santiago Graziano. Have a look at their reel. Plenty of great work to see on their site as well.
Uno (One) is a series of 3 stop motion animations, showing 3 different sides of the creativity: web design, logotype design and video design. Production companies: Nerdo Design and Logout Video.
Sony Entertainment turned to Imaginary Forces for the title sequence of their flagship title, God of War 3, and asked them to create the in-game flashback sequences. [thanks to Marcus Leite]
The team from Brand New School, led by art/design director Eric Adolfsen, chose to artfully treat New York City as the canvas for the 2010 AICP Show Sponsor Reel Sequence through an old-school, stop-motion animation approach.
Hey, me again with more shameful self promotion. Just wanted to announce my new site and blog at RonGervais.com
I will be tweaking here and there over the next little while. As my css skillz gets a better as will the site, but in the meantime I’ve added some new work and I hope you enjoy.
michael - June 22nd, 2010 - 11:11 am
