Tony Babel is a multidisciplinary designer, animator and illustrator specialized in rich animations for digital products. With a portfolio full of very inspiring motion design work. I am a huge fan of the Vintage Loops series but I wanted to share this series of random loops with you, just hilarious.
Youtube commissioned My Name is Wendy Studio to create a motion design of 15’ for library of Premieres countdown videos. The video stages the journey and the adventures of a ball in an endless play, in a joyful way across colors and shapes.
Marco Salemi, Giarri and hup studio have been commissioned by Psyop to create a series of glitch effects and logo animation for Absolut 'It’s In Our Spirit' spot Introducing their new brand platform Absolut has launched a major new global campaign. Check out the awesome glitches and in the end there’s a link for you to see the full spot!
Guilherme Henrique and Datadot Estúdio were invited by Skillen & Co., a Canadian video producer company, to collaborate with them in designing and animating visual schemes for TED and Zebra Technologies’ video. As most of the content is about non-physical concepts, their goal was to develop visual explanations to work with the interview’s narrative highlighting the essence of the information that was being spoken. “We have done more than 20 animations that are placed over the film.
Nouran Zedan shared a 3D and motion design project titled Organic Series, a collection of abstract botanicals with some loops that show it’s subtle movement in its natural environment. Each of the Images have subtle lights, showing the translucency of the petals and stems. Avoiding the traditional leaf textures, I made some wavy lines textures in Photoshop to show more of the eccentricity of the plants. All of them are modeled and animated using Cinema4D and rendered in Octane.
Chen Wu shared a colorful collection of simple but awesome animations in an endless loop. They range from smoke, to shadows, all very subtle but quite well executed. Work like this give an even longer life for the GIF format, one of the few things that have really endured the test of time. Hold your 🔥
Roberto Warner shared a set of distortion experiments with typography. Titled Kinetic Typography Case Study 03 Roberto uses different ways to animate by using distortion, reflection, bulging and others. The result is a quite beautiful set of animated posters, all with a simple black and white theme.
LOOP shared a motion design project full of awesome 3D work For Döcke, one of Russia's leading suppliers of building materials for suburban housing construction. The team at LOOP came up with a concept of advertising the products using visual techniques that are common for cutting edge phones, sport cars, sneakers and cosmetics, showing the materials in metaphorical and exquisite way that is more appealing and not familiar for the audience in this particular context.
SkyFill is an internal project made by the amazing folks at Trinetix Creative Studio. Based in Ukraine, they’re living with the consequences of the nuclear plant disaster at Chernobyl. So ecological problems, pollution and consumption – things that’s always on their minds. Garbage is the main subject for their video: “we wanted to show how everyone is responsible for polluting the environment, how a daily neglect to the issue on individual level causes a ripple/bomb effect.
What an amazing tribute to a renowned legend, Bruce Lee. DINPURU tv has shared a short film titled 'Dragon Never Die' and it's a beautiful tribute to the martial legend Bruce Lee and his philosophy of 'water'. 'Be water my friend', I think we have heard at least once this saying in our lives. I like how DINPURU tv has shared the concept and the idea behind the film, even to explain the reasoning on the dark tones of the background of alleys from Hong Kong streets.
For our first Monday of 2021, we bring a film and motion design shared with us by Régis RAFFIN title 2021, Come On ! Come on 2021, we're ready for you! Do you feel like starting this year pedal to the metal? On the great « come on » performed by The Hives, Director Régis Raffin offers us a shot of pure adrenaline with this short 3D animated film. A bit of crazy and fun to kickstart 2021 with enthusiasm and determination!
Santi Zoraidez shared a collection of his best 3D work done in 2020. I am personally a fan of his incredible designs. I actually try to recreate some of them to learn 3D. Disclaimer, they never look even closer to his. That’s why I really love to feature any update from Santi. Plus I really relate to what he wrote for the description of this project, quoted below from Behance.
Stato ® is a duo of creative director Jimena Passadore and 3D Generalist José León Molfino based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They have 13 years of experience in the motion graphics market as a creative duo leading a talented team of artists. They will transform your ideas into an upscaled visual experience. Push the limits.
Reisinger Studio with Facu Labo and Aimar Molero Music & Sou were briefed to create four ideas to promote Tylko's "Organise effortlessly" mantra. Using Maxon Cinema 4D they created some abstract 3D work and here’s a set of work in progress & 3D explorations.
Hussam Eissa shared a motion design project featuring a retro look mixed with clever use of 3D. If I’m Honest is a music video made for DJ Gem that takes the viewer through a magical summer journey. The video explores the concept of a twin flame love, a magnetic connection that shows up in the different phases of your life.
J.King Chou shared a 3D and motion design project titled DISPERSION. As the name suggests it’s about light effects and some abstract choreography of shapes overlapping. You all know by now that I am a fan of this type of effect. Perhaps it’s time to dust off my old Photoshop skills.
Anxo Vizcaíno shared a 3D and motion design project titled Clarus Via. Clarus (latin for light, clear) Via (latin for way, path) is a short story about light, an exploration of its behaviors and its capacity to create space and time. It's also about being born, exploring, understanding and finding. Thierry Urbain's work has been a great source of inspiration, along with wonderful architecture works around the world.
‘Fighting Fish’ is the collision of the sculpture and motion design practices of North Boy South aka multi-award winning motion artist (and Stash alumni) Simon Robson. 2020 with all its ructions has allowed time for many creatives to re-evaluate their paths and Simon is no exception. After years of secretly dreaming and drafting his sculptures on paper, this year Simon has dared to make his practice a reality, diving into the physical realization of his sculptural visions.
A throwback from the late 90s with this collaborative project for Puma. Exploring these past aesthetics through motion design, art direction, and pure nostalgia! After watching the ad campaign, for who you will remember. You will recognize inspiration from an iconic movie back from these years: 'The fifth element' starring Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich. It's a pleasure to watch and would like to send our regards to the entire crew behind this production. We took the liberty to list them below, props!
'Cycle' is an abstract take on plastic - from its organic origins to how it is slowly becoming a part of the natural cycle. Made by humans to last, MNFST studio questions whether plastic will outlive nature itself.