New look and new showreel for Mutant Hands [Video]

Mutant Hands – AKA animator and art director James Wignall – burst onto the creative scene back in 2005, one of a new wave of creatives at the vanguard of the noughties motion graphics revolution. Bringing together vector graphics, geometry and desktop animation tools, Mutant Hands and his contemporaries brought motion to the internet, pushing bandwidths and the aesthetic of the day.

Now, after leaving a little too long for reasons all busy creatives understand – there’s always a new project to tackle, right? – James has created a showreel, website and brand identity to reflect how his direction has evolved. Although he loved all the work in his previous reel, a lot has changed, and it was time to update things.

“I’ve tried to include a spectrum of work ranging from personal to commercial projects but still keep an overarching theme so that the work hangs together,” says James. …