From the release: Roman Veiga is a writer-director who likes to mix techniques such as stop-motion, 3D animation, and live action. His passion for comics and current affairs has led him to delve into the world of fantastical concepts, with a thematic focus on realistic issues. Identity, metamorphosis, and monstrosity at the heart of his artistic reflections. Today, his style, a crossroads of different visual techniques, is expressed through collaborations with musicians, helping to shape and design their visual identity, or in engaging advertising films. Since his first film, which was select ..read more

From the release: PFX Group, a GPEF IV fund portfolio company of Genesis Capital, based in Prague, Czech Republic, has successfully acquired a 100% stake in the Polish VFX and animation studio, Human Film. This strategic move has expanded PFX Group’s workforce by incorporating 50 highly skilled professionals, surpassing a total of 210 team members. Human, renowned for its expertise in animation and visual effects, boasts a distinctive technical framework dedicated to crafting intricate animated characters, lifelike animals, and captivating special effects for feature films, TV series, and adv ..read more

Vitor Cervi, a design and animation director based in London, just dropped us his personal short film Carcass, a glitchy mashup of street photography/scanning, collage, and 3D animation commenting on capitalism and the metaverse. Vitor Cervi: “The film started as a fun thing I did while walking my dog, and slowly took me back to the early days of motion graphics when one would grab a new tool and simply see what it could do. “When I moved to North-East London in 2021, I found myself immersed in street photography capturing images of broken vehicles and spare parts scattered around the many ca ..read more

Paris studio Unit Motion Design conjures a series of dark and dramatic dioramas in this sweeping intro cinematic for the “Into the Light” expansion of Destiny 2, Bungie’s hit free-to-play online first-person shooter. Lauréline Lorion, head of production at UMD: “Bungie contacted us in the spring of 2023, to accompany them on a new adventure and help them face a new challenge: launching new seasons of their iconic game Destiny and delivering a new vision and a different creative style for the intro cinematics of their new season. “The challenge lay not in the style chosen for the production, b ..read more

Production partners Aggressive and Loop (whose previous collabs you can see here and here), make the case for the recyclability of plastics in a technically complex and visually intriguing film for America’s Plastic Makers. Alex Topaller, CD/partner at Aggresive: “This film is a playful rumination on the technological, and environmental advances in plastics recycling technologies. As such, it’s key that it be more than eye candy; that our domino crumpling and rebirth effect is grounded in authenticity. “We modeled dozens of plastic products and incorporated scientific direction from various r ..read more

London-based freelance AD/designer/animator Romain Loubersanes imparts a spirited and playful tone to the 2024 Motion Motion Festival in Nantes, France, with this tightly choreographed typographic trailer. Romain Loubersanes: “The 2024 Motion Motion Festival identity stretched my typography skills in new directions. Approaching the challenge with eagerness and a touch of uncertainty, I embarked on a journey of exploring the fundamentals of motion, spacing, and timing. It proved both enlightening and humbling, reminding me of the vastness of the design landscape. “The concept of overlap emerge ..read more

Leaning away from the stark beauty of the ongoing CG luxury watch wars, the motion team at FutureDeluxe frames the mechanical precision of Hublot’s Unico movement in time-warped and fashion-forward live-action. Ben Black, FutureDeluxe associate creative director: “As always with our Hublot projects it was an exciting challenge to bring the precision and beauty of their products to life, while this time seamlessly integrating them into live-action sequences.   “We developed the visual concept and art direction around the idea of controlling time through movement, representing this throug ..read more

Frankfurt design/animation studio Styleframe (whose talents for crafting intimate and tactile brand films you can see here) continue to create intrigue and desire with their latest, a product launch video for AI startup rabbit. Robin Volk, Styleframe managing director: “We made this video for the rabbit r1 produced and designed by rabbit in Santa Monica and Swedish audio device innovators teenage engineering that they call ‘the future of the human-machine interface’. “The rabbit r1 is a revolutionary AI companion for everyone to order food, an Uber pickup, or listen to music – it assists and ..read more

The loss of a beloved pet can be devastating but when co-founders Betsy de Fries and Jerry van de Beek at Little Fluffy Clouds recently lost their family dog, they chose to channel their emotions into this meditative 2D short film. Betsy de Fries: “In 2023 our dog JAX, the North Star of Little Fluffy Clouds, left the planet after 17.5 incredible years. The desolation we feel around that loss is incalculable and so, as artists do everywhere, we created something beautiful to look back on and honor JAX, and give artistic expression to our loss. “The film tells the story of a junior astronaut po ..read more

AIM Studios apply their ample talents for narrative clarity and warmly illustrative visuals to an engaging literary journey for Rakuten Kobo, the Canadian ebook/e-reader brand thru Toronto agency The Garden. Tiago Ribeiro, producer at AIM Creative Studios in Portugal: “We were challenged by the agency to create an ad for the global launch of Rakuten Kobo’s new color eReader. Inspired by the surrealism found within the pages of beautiful book designs, this project aimed to evoke the boundless realms of imagination experienced while reading. “The ad blends a minimalist aesthetic with a grainy t ..read more