South African based Ontwerp updates their site with new content and a new reel for summertime!

Boards Magazine is another great motion-graphics and commercial production news resource, if you don’t already check it out. Our own Jon Saunders with Kim Dulaney, and Emmett Dzieza designed the open for their (not-so) recent Awards Show while at Stardust. It’s a liquid-smooth camera move through an otherworldly landscape of groovy organic lines, mushrooms, crystal caves, feathers and a city in the clouds. Sweet.

Warning: Link potentially NSFW if you actually work in a professional office, not at home or in a boy’s club. Contains nudity and adult situations.

The Doll is a gorgeous new short film from Wyld Stallions to “virally” promote a luxury lingerie line. The sci-fi scenario involves a lonely lady and a mail-order robot. So: lingerie, robots, girls. Sounds good already, huh? What’s interesting (besides the obvious) is the making of and behind-the-scenes stuff that Wyld Stallions has put together. They take you through the whole process of making the film: writing, storyboards, animatics, casting, the shoot, and post-production. The film is also really nicely shot and full of subtle visual effects that you may not catch the first time ’round. Well done, guys. Take a moment and check it all out.

Cool experimental work by eatdrink: Observation of The Cat State

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King & Country has officially gotten over the first year hump, and to celebrate their birthday they have a completely reworked site, a lot of new work and a brand new reel to show off. Their new site has some nice “inside look” features, like some behind the scenes pics for their naked trucker shoot, and a gallery of studio pictures. They have put together some clean and solid work in their first year, definitely check this toddler out. Can’t wait to see what comes out of them in the years to come.

Call for entries: Typophile Film Festival

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TheMartist Animation Studio

Bicoastal design shop Shilo just released a brand new title sequence for CW’s teeny drama entitled, Hidden Palms. The intro is well shot and full of metaphorical imagery explaining the difficulty of being a teenager these days. With oddities like the rectangular chunks of grass, as well as the way in which everything is almost too perfect and balanced successfully gives the intro a feeling of unease.