‘The Amazing Adventures of Awesome’ Bring Some Magic to World Autism Day
Allison Brownmoore’s charming 2D short shares how beautiful, exciting, and optimistic the world can be as seen through the eyes of a young girl with autism.
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Maxon Releases VFX Suite 2.1
The recommended incremental update incorporates improvements and bug fixes to the company’s key VFX toolset for After Effects; now available for all Red Giant Complete and Maxon One subscribers.
Playing a Deadly Board Game of War in Iron Maiden’s ‘Stratego’ Music Video
Blinkink director Gustaf Holtenäs, inspired by Kentaro Miura’s ‘Berserk’ manga and the battlefield strategy game Stratego, mixes hand painted 2D backgrounds with 3D elements and Houdini simulations to take Maiden fans inside a stylized, fantastical Japanese-themed gaming world.
Cantina Creative Helps Turn the Hands of Time in ‘Loki’
Design and VFX studio delivers high-tech retro and futuristic time-travel 3D graphics on Marvel Studios and Disney+’s hit MCU series.
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GALLERY: ‘Archer’ Season 12 Storyboards and Designs
Art director Justin Wagner and associate art director Chi Duong Sato share an extensive board sequence, vehicle designs, environment design-to-final sequences, and final sequence images from the all-new, action-packed, martini-in-hand Season 12 of Adam Reed and FXX’s hit animated comedy series.
Adobe to Buy Frame.io for $1.275 Billion
Acquisition will pair leading end-to-end cloud-based video collaboration platform with industry standard Creative Cloud software such as Premiere Pro and After Effects to power the video editing process.
In 2D, 3D, Business, CG, Digital Media, People, Post-production, Technology | ANIMATIONWorld, Headline News, VFXWorld | Geographic Region: All
Displaying Great Ingenuity on Spotify’s ‘Today’s Top Hits’ Campaign
Ingenuity Studios delivers 65 shots in five stylized, fantastical CG worlds, each for a different starring musical act, for a new campaign highlighting the streaming music platform’s largest playlist.
In 3D, Business, CG, Commercials, Digital Media, People, Previs, Technology, Visual Effects | Headline News, VFXWorld | Geographic Region: All
The Retro-Futuristic Cyberpunk of Purple Disco Machine’s ‘Playbox’ Music Video
London-based Juppi Juppsen and Mathias Lemaitre Sgard’s new animated short pays vibrant homage to classic sci-fi and disco with a story about a space superhero, his female droid, and their search for an ancient artifact holding the essence of music.
Visualizing a New Mother’s Eerie Sleeplessness in ‘Six to Six’
For Israeli artist Neta Cohen, childhood memories that her home had a life of its own fueled her 2D/3D animated short about the long, sometimes sinister hours between wakefulness and sleep, reality and imagination.
Maxon Releases Universe 4.0
Now available, the latest version includes new stylize tools Electrify, Texturize Motion, and Analog, Support for Metal, and 200+ new presets for Array Gun and Typographic; other Maxon updates include Redshift with support for OpenColorO, streamlined new Maxon App, and fixes and optimization of FX Suite and Cinema 4D S24.
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‘Tooning Out the News’ Kicks Off New ‘Smart Talk Tonight’ Segment
Paramount+’s critically acclaimed daily news satire series welcomes animated host Kenneth Parsons, who will get up close and personal, in studio, with real life guests; June 11 debut features famed novelist Salman Rushdie.
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Twist and Glitch: Cody Uhlers’ ‘Purple Barreling’ Music Video
The musician and sound designer teams with animator Mike Kluge, animating a powerful dance assist from recording artist Glüme with 3D and After Effects in a quirky, vibrant short inspired by 90’s iconography, video games, and Deee-Lite’s ‘Groove is in the Heart.’
Maxon Launches ‘VFX and Chill’ Web Series
New weekly 90-minute live show, starring Seth Worley and Daniel ‘Hashi’ Hashimoto, pulls back the curtain on the VFX creation process; program debuts May 28.
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Goodbye Kansas Shares ‘Outlander’ VFX Breakdown Reel
Visual effects studio delivers 175 shots on the Starz series, including a terrifying locust swarm, stampeding buffalo, and epic storm.
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Animating the Punchy Electro Beats of 1788-L’s ‘Automaton’
The acclaimed producer’s new music video, animated by FISE and GASOLINE, captures the experimental bass and exciting, Daft Punk-like melody from the track off his new ‘Parallel:S’ EP.
Young Artists Pivot into Animation for Universal Music Group’s °1824 Division
Moving away from videography during the pandemic, members of the company’s inhouse creative group embraced new digital tools, including After Effects, to produce captivating video content that often provided fans their first visual representation of a new song.
Sci-Fi Ambient Minimalism: ‘Blue Moon Frequency # 2b [Spring Mix]’ Music Video
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Debuting today, the latest collaboration from noise-electro/classical composer Elizabeth Joan Kelly and avant-garde slide-guitarist Geiger von Müller gets surreal with public domain NASA images, Cinema 4D, and After Effects.
Framestore Designs Logo and Titles for ‘Intergalactic’
To create a vibrant retro mood for the futuristic sci-fi series, creative director Sharon Lock used After Effects and Cinema 4D, with live-action and hand-painted elements, to complement the production team's vision and visual language.
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Behind the Music and Animation of ‘Doug Unplugs’
DreamWorks Animation’s musical kids’ series, created for Apple TV+, follows the adventures of a young robot who ‘unplugs’ from his fact-based world to experience the wonders of the human world with his best friend Emma.
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Raging Against Toxic Masculinity in Brye’s ‘LEMONS’ Lyric Video
Artist Justin Moon used Blender, FLIP fluids plugin, and After Effects to produce the sterile imagery that’s gradually corrupted by seething anger in his CG music video for Universal Music Group’s °1824 division.
In 3D, CG, Digital Media, Music and Sound, Music Videos, People, Short Films, Technology | ANIMATIONWorld | Geographic Region: All
LOBO Toys Around with New Mango Frooti Campaign
Bollywood stars Allu Arjun, Varun Dhawan, and Alia Bhatt share top billing with some animated toy-like miniatures in new series of light-hearted commercials out of &Walsh.
In 2D, 3D, CG, Commercials, Digital Media, People, Short Films, Technology | ANIMATIONWorld, Headline News | Geographic Region: Asia
Hanging by a Thread on a Windy Day in Team Salut’s ‘Boom Bam’ Lyric Video
To capture the song’s beat and energy, artist Lauren Brems drew fast scribbles over video frames of her friends dancing, integrated with subtle word movement, in her 2D animation short for Universal Music Group’s °1824 division.
Animating Soft-Spoken Vocals in The White Buffalo’s ‘Sycamore’ Music Video
To capture the lyrics’ dark gravity, artist Baptiste Leroux used hand-drawn frames in TV Paint for a textured, stop-motion look, in his short fan film for Universal Music Group’s °1824 division.
Maya B Goes Quirky Collage in ‘Sink (ft. SAINt JHN)’ Music Video
In the first of a five piece series on new animated shorts from Universal Music Group’s °1824 division, AWN shows how artist Carolyn Knapp used pieces of paper, gold foil, even her own clothes, along with Photoshop and After Effects, to create an innovative 2D film.
Ataboy Kicks a Goal for LA Galaxy Fans
Studio's 2D animated short, ‘Amor Eterno’ pairs the sunny LA energy to a warm, congenial animation style; spot pays homage to the teams’ local fans and the community surrounding the club.
In 2D, CG, Commercials, Digital Media, People, Short Films, Technology | ANIMATIONWorld, Headline News | Geographic Region: North America
