Bill Nye Joins Coca Cola in Stop-Motion Short Explaining Recycling
Source: Mackinnon & Saunders The Coca-Cola Company has released a short film to demystify the often confusing and invisible bottle-to-bottle recycling process. The vividly animated stop-motion piece, The Coca-Cola Company and Bill Nye Demystify…
‘The Batman’ Premiere Dates Set for HBO Max, Digital, and Home Video
THE BATMAN DVD You can read about some the film’s spectacular visual effects, produced by Wētā FX, on AWN’s VFXWorld. In its announcement of the dates, WarnerMedia issued a recommendation that The Batman be watched…
Hue+Cry Drops Brand New Look
Creative content studio Hue+Cry has built quite a reputation for its award-winning work and projects for clients such as Capital One, MSNBC, Oreo, and Disney. Now, the Richmond-based animation and design collective is unveiling its first rebrand in nine…
Bulgari “Le Gemme” Fragrance Films by Builders Club
Posted on Friday, April 15, 2022 · Leave a Comment Agency: Anomaly Builders Club, whose recent work ranges from this sleek product launch for Omega to this radical film for Nike, drops a sensual CG compilation for Italian luxury brand…
‘Scrat Tales’ Team Reminisces About Blue Sky’s Swan Song
Ice Age: Scrat Tales is a poetic and bittersweet end to the Blue Sky story. Its protagonist Scrat was the first character on screen in Ice Age, the studio’s first feature film, released in 2002. We were very close to the end when the announcement…
‘Mind Game’ Director Masaaki Yuasa To Present Annecy Masterclass
About Yuasa: [embedded content] “The return of the Annecy Festival to its pre-pandemic state is the reason behind awarding two Honorary Cristals, one each to two exceptional personalities who have marked the recent history of animation film, on…
Podcast EP 157: How Chelsea Lee Changed Careers from Professional Dancer to Stop-Motion Animator
Ibele, himself a stop-motion animator (see AWN’s Fresh Takes piece on his whimsical short, The Silly Duck Wizard, deftly digs into all manner of topics, encouraging interviewees to share insights and opinions on a wide range of topics like pitching…
Samsung “CXL Memory Expander” Brand Film by Brut
Production: Brut Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2022 · Leave a Comment From the team at Brut animation/design collective in Barcelona: “The idea was to dramatize the data’s flow with animated balls demonstrating the benefits of…
“TILES” Experimental Short Film by Diatomic Studio
Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2022 · Leave a Comment “Using basic elements of geometry such as points, lines, circles, triangles, or squares, and combining them with the basic formulas of kinetics such as transaction, rotation,…
Baobab Studios Makes Five New Hires, Including Oscar-Nominated Director Erick Oh
What do the hires indicate? Tech remains a key factor in driving Baobab’s plans for the future. From the beginning, Baobab has existed on the frontier between art and technology, regularly employing the latest tech to modernize how the company…
Facebook “Take On Anything” Loops by Hueso and 1stAveMachine
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 · Leave a Comment Client: Facebook Animation: HuesoDirector: Gianluca FalloneExecutive Producer: Santiago MoncalvoIllustration: Nahuel Rollan, Bernardo Henning, Nahuel Bardi, Eloy Krioka, Gianluca…
Prime Video Drops ‘Fairfax’ Season 2 Clip and Images
Check out the first look clip with guest star Guy Fieri doing what Guy Fieri does: In the new season, the gang of four middle schoolers is back with more misadventures in their never-ending quest for clout on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles – the…
‘Sonic The Hedgehog 2’ Scores Record Box Office Opening For Video Game Adaptation
Whether Paramount’s theatrical strategy will be emulated by studios like Disney and Netflix, which have recently relegated their family fare to streaming (Luca, Turning Red, The Mitchells vs. The Machines) remains to be seen. Perhaps a better…
Paramount Unveils Star-Studded, Fart-Fueled Trailer For ‘Paws Of Fury’
Paramount has dropped the trailer for Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, a furry animated feature with a tumultuous past starring Michael Cera and Samuel L. Jackson. Originally announced in 2015 with a planned 2017 release, the film will now hit theaters…
Carlsberg “Chamber of Secrets” Spot by Miguel Campaña and Glassworks
Production: Canada, My GoshDirector: Miguel CampañaDOP: Oscar FauraAD: Anna Colomer VFX/post: GlassworksLead 3D: Javi Verdugo3D artist: Marco Rossi, Kiko Navarro, JJ Palomo, Abner Marin, Kornel Makarowitcz, Hugo Garcia, Simon Glass, Huhaa, Igor…
New Animated Series ‘Ghetto Brilliance’ in Development from ‘Dave’ Star GaTa
GaTa first announced the project during Deadline’s recent Deadline Contenders panel, which focused on Dave. (Deadline first reported the news.) Max Weinstein is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. He is the Editor-at-Large of ‘Dread…
Meet Darius: The Newest Animation Mentor Character
AM: What’s something about the rigging process that would surprise people? Riggers have to assess the model to see if it can deform properly, making sure the vertex/edge loops are placed properly. Once that has been established and the model has…
FITC Toronto 2022 Titles by Territory Studio
Audio: Bent Stamnes Production: Territory StudioTeam: Zack Freeman, Erich Nemcek, Brendan Wilson, Jake Yem, Marti Romances, Brandon Mata, Lyniel Dao, Ally Cogbill, Ian Sterling Category: 3D Style, Animation, CG, Featured, Titles · Tags: Ally…
Oscar-Nominated Director Anton Dyakov Releases A New Russia-Ukraine Co-Produced Short ‘I’m Burning’
When asked about his Academy Award nomination for Boxballet and whether or not I’m Burning might be a candidate for similar recognition, Dyakov was dismissive, saying that, “I don’t even know what an Oscar is. This is something…
AIB “Home of the Year” Broadcast Intro’s by JVG
Client: Allied Irish Banks “With Allied Irish Banks (AIB) as the sponsor, the goal was to create four different rooms looking nice and contemporary, yet distinctively Irish and without being pretentious or unattainable. “The result was…
New Rainbow Six Siege Trailer by CRCR and WIZZ
“Mixing drama and revenge, the film transports us to the streets of Tokyo where we are we witness the character’s martial arts gifts, as well as the moment she lost her mentor to a gang.” Posted on Saturday, April 9, 2022 ·…