A few test renders and a sneak preview of a new motion piece coming very shortly from FutureDeluxe. Shhh....

It's been up for over 6 days now and in that time managed to notch up over 8,000 hits on two combined Vimeo pages. The new HypeforType Neuforma ident. Stay tuned for part two, in the meantime let's see if we can hit 10k!

It’s been a mad first few weeks here at FutureDeluxe, however a few projects are coming to an end and slowly seeing the light of day. First up is an ident for new Type Foundry Hype for Type. The first in a series, here’s a sneak peak at some screenshots for Neuforma. Full edit to follow very shortly.

Becks have launched a new campaign ‘Music Inspired Art’ based on interactive screens located at various points around London, encouraging users to plug in their ipods and create generative art on and around their iconic bottle. Once the track is over the stills are uploaded in to a Flickr set here.

This years Flash on the Beach has drawn in a variety of creative speakers from around the world, however on day one there was only one person I was heading straight to see - Rob Chiu.

Rob has been working under his alias Ronin for over 9 years now and in that time shown us some amazing motion graphic pieces, stunning photography and more recently some of the most powerful short films and film titles around.

At FOTB he revealed secrets of his new film project Fear/Love. A story of Identity, love and self destruction amongst young people in Inner City London. Portrayed by an amazing, young and gritty cast, the film is written and directed by Rob himself. Shot on beautiful Red One cameras with The Mill providing grading and post duties. This is most definitely one to look out for when its released, and will very likely see Rob get the cinematic recognition he certainly deserves.

Man of the moment Karsten Schimdt has posted up a showreel of work based on his open source library collection for Java and Processing. Computational design and animation at its finest.......watch the toxiclibs reel here. Also catch Karsten down at Flash on the Beach this week.

Dutch motion design team Buro Knapzak have created this amazing new abstract identity for Universiteit Twente. Watch it here.

Karsten Schmidt has created the new ident for this years One Dot Zero exhibition commissioned by Wieden & Kennedy. The ‘live’ logo takes feeds from various Twitter, Vimeo, Facebook and social network sources to create an ever changing identity. What is interesting is Karsten’s development work which he has posted up on Flickr here.

Beautiful new audio reactive piece from Argentinian motion graphics designer Esteban Dianco. Watch the full animation here.

Man vs Machine have created some of my favorite motion graphic pieces over the last few years. And this new collection for the SyFy channel are no exception. View them all here.

Just when you thought you haven’t heard from Matt Pyke for a while, he returns with a series of animations which play a huge part in MTV’s new rebrand.

Matt seems to have taken his Universal Everything project ‘Advanced Beauty’ to the next level in the new ‘Sweetheart’ ident, featuring thousand of sweets in true pop art style. And then injected a bit of humor into the brilliantly titled ‘Mr Furry’. And as ever working with his brother Simon from Freefarm to provide the soundtracks.

Check them all after the jump.

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‘What would the internet look like if it was represented as a 3-Dimensional object?’ was the question Google asked several creative agencies. Imaginary Forces interpretation of this is a short film depicting a museum like piece suspended in mid air. Watch the ‘Interactive Reaction’ after the jump.
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New animation from Lithuanian director Rimantas Lukavicius. Watch Balance here.

Great new 360˚ stop motion animations created for Nike Sportswear by colleagues at AKQA. Play with them all here.

If only we knew......One thing is for sure, this new short promo for MTV is the work of the one and only....Johnny Hardstaff.

See the video here.

Great new animation created for Nike from famed illustrator and model maker James Jarvis & Shynola’s Richard Kenworthy - Onwards.
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It’s not often I get to write about websites on here. Partly because I work on them all day long and also, the things I want to write about are usually the projects I’m currently working on, which for obvious reasons I can’t until they are launched. On Monday, here at AKQA we finally get to launch www.ferrari.com. A project which has been a whole year of blood, sweat, tears & tantrums! Part Art Directed by myself the site includes a video interactive walkthrough of the Maranello factory and a complete 3d experience of all of the GT range allowing you to explore every customizable option possible.

Hit the link on Monday 30th March.

Launch update - Explore the GT Range here.

Nice new spot from Puma. Constructed from a clever studio set up of layered projections, and synced dance movements revealing several virtual Puma outfits. Created by New York’s Droga5.(More...)

Attik’s Noise 5 finally gets to see the light of day from 26th March. Limited to only 3,000 copies. Expect hundreds of lavish inks, varnishes and advanced print techniques from which the Noise series has gained its reputation.

New trailer for Amsterdam based digital creative festival FITC 2009. Created by local outfit Addikt. Bikes, cows, lamps and whores.....! See the full animation here.

Created by young director Xavier Chassaing, this is no ordinary motion graphics spot. Constructed with over 35,000 digital photographs and combined with a mix of 3d mapped projections, this is one huge labour of love.(More...)

From the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas - Henry Selick, and animation studio Laika. The stop motion animated feature film of the childrens classic book Coraline.
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Digital filmmaker Scott Pagano has teamed up with San Fransisco based Trifonic to produce this short graphic film Parks on Fire. Watch it in full HD on Apple’s gallery.

Check this new video featuring the artwork of Shepard Fairy for new band N.A.S.A (featuring David Byrne and Chuck D).(More...)

Design and Production agency Süperfad have created a new 30 second spot for Durex - Get it on.
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The Mill had another amazing year in 2008, their recently released showreel shows yet again what a world leading visual effects company they are.(More...)

This award winning childrens book has recently been lovingly recreated by Studio AKA into a short animated film.(More...)

Directed by Matt Pyke of Universal Everything fame. An operatic film for Nokia commissioned by Wieden & Kennedy & Hi-Res - ‘Beautiful Connections’.

3d animation by Maxim Zhestkov, sound design as always by Matt’s brother Simon at Freefarm featuring opera singer Jenny Kosmowsky.

See the film here.