Newly adopted sons of Wales Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney join comedian Dawn French as she reprises her fairy role in the annual Marks & Spencer holiday outing via Outsider directors Dom&Nic with animated mittens and VFX by The Mill. [Watch]
Compelling production work here from Builders Club and London editing studio Avenues for Brooklyn’s Air Company whose reactor converts carbon into carbon-negative products, “turning our most abundant pollutant into a resource for good.” [Watch]
Nexus director Paloma Baeza, who won a BAFTA and an Annie for her stop-motion short film Poles Apart featuring two bears, moves on to CG birds in this glitzy holiday number for British online retailer Very. [Watch]
The first big holiday spot of the season landed today courtesy of Stink directors Traktor for British retailer Argos with London VFX house Untold handling Connie the doll’s dance moves and Trevor the dinosaur’s disastrous directing. [Watch]
In a full two minutes of VFX-fueled fun, Academy Films director Henry Scholfield makes the case for switching to the electric Opel Corsa and Vauxhall Corsa with animation and CG support from Wicked Pixels in Cape Town. [Watch]
CDs Tom Crate and Dave Webster at FutureDeluxe in London amp up the drama for an elemental reveal of Huawei’s Ultimate Design luxury smartwatch (complete with black nanocrystal ceramic bezel and 18K gold inlays). [Watch]
