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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Asylum, under the guidance of lead animator Mike Warner and lead inferno artist Rob Trent, with Go Films Director Tim Hamilton and Fire Station, created a nefarious cluster of anthropomorphic flowers promoting Teleflora’s beautifully hand-arranged bouquets.

The legendary E*TRADE babies are back, this time in a seven-spot campaign produced from start to finish by Click 3X. John J. Budion, working closely with Grey NYC, led Click’s in-house team as director, creative director, and lead flame artist, shooting, directing and handling all VFX. While the basic concept and characters will be familiar [...]

VFXTalk.com, the leading visual effects and computer graphics community, is pleased to announce the return of the popular VFXChallenge Series. Now into its fourth season the competition is co-sponsored by Sputnik7.com and returns on a grander scale with some incredible prizes.
Throughout the course of 2010, VFXTalk will host a series of ten challenges to be [...]

Working via production studio F-Stop Istanbul, Nola Pictures’ Chris Hartwill directed a stunning :90 spot promoting Turkey’s largest city as a 2010 European Capital of Culture, an honor bestowed upon select cities each year by the European Union. The remarkable commercial packs the entirety of Istanbul’s art, architectural, religious, industrial, and social history and vibrancy [...]

Artist owned-and-operated bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX recently contributed VFX to the 2010 ad campaign for Titleist via ad agency Arnold. The multi-spot campaign was directed by @radical.media’s Greg Kohs and began breaking before the New Year, with the last spot, “Yardage Book,” breaking on Jan. 30.

Check out the cool video presenation at AU. Featuring an extensive look behind the scenes of Avatar.

This movie is a reminder of the ninja movie craze of the early eighties. Non-bloodsoaked article on the fx.

After following Alex Oliver, Scott Patton and Zack Petroc. Iceman J presents his ZBrush creation, The Conall.

“Dominoes,” the first spot in ESPN’s new campaign for the NASCAR Nationwide Series, conveys the fast and unpredictable action of the series — where up-and-comers get a shot at beating seasoned drivers. Using the tagline IT’S ANYONE’S RACE, we tell the story of a driver who manages to sneak his way to the front of [...]

Enormous costumes and face tracking and why Spike chose to go with keyframe animation.