Client: Semi PermanentFounder: Murray BellCreative Director: Mitchell Oakley Smith “We aimed for a vivid yet slow, almost frozen moment, approach to amplify the gravitas of the emotional weight this has all been on us.” “So, instead of the traditional title …
Month: October 2022

Production I.G to Adapt ‘Heavenly Delusion’ Manga
Whitney is a freelance writer focusing on VFX-driven fantasy film & TV as well as preschool animation. The official “Heavenly Delusion” (“Tengoku Daimakyou”) website revealed that Production I.G, the animation studio behind Ghost in the Shell and PSYCHO-PASS, will produce the …

All Aboard the Soul Train With Golden Wolf and Craig David
Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 Drawing inspiration from the work of Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, the animation team at Golden Wolf and British singer-songwriter Craig David deliver an environmental message for European rail booking platform Trainline. Agency: Mother Vocalist: …

Typography Meets Architecture in Airbnb Spot by Buck and House Special
“We wanted the viewer to feel like they went around the world in a day. To achieve this, we carefully crafted the lighting, to begin with a sunrise and ending with a sunset over an idyllic landscape. “So we made …

Bring The Bug Spray And Check Out Juliette Laboria’s Student Short ‘Pests’
Laboria is an alum of Paris’ École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD), where the short was produced. In a director’s note accompanying the film, she explains: Sound design adds another layer of discomfort for the viewer, as the buzzing …

‘Eternal Spring’ Revisits 2 Decades of Religious Persecution Though a Survivor’s Drawings
What Loftus was most intentional about spotlighting wasn’t all the story’s gory details, but rather the healing process Daxiong and the other detainees he spoke with were going through during production. But for all the detail and immersive goals of …

20 Spooky Stop-Motion Classics To Get You In The Mood For Halloween
George Pal, another workaholic madman, used a process in his cartoons called replacement animation, where he and his team would create different individually carved wooden puppets for each frame of animation to allow for greater flexibility of movement. A typical …

VFX Legion Delivers Key Shots for ‘Quantum Leap’ Reboot
Legion’s creative team included Hattin as the VFX supervisor; Smalley as VFX producer; Blake Anderson as CG supervisor; Matthew Noren as senior VFX coordinator; Joseph Soloway as VFX QC coordinator; Nolan Conrad as digital compositor with Eugen Olsen as senior …

The North Face “Summit Series Footwear” Product Film
Client: The North Face Sound Design: Kambiz AghdamSound Engineer (Interviews): Henry Michels Swiss director Maxime Durand and Montreal art director Vincent Raineri push the interview-based brand film into new and visually dynamic territory for The North Face and their Summit …