Director Kellan Stover and the crew at Powerhouse Animation in Austin dial up the anime flavor in these two branded short films for Magnum Ice Cream to address “the deep and meaningful pleasure that comes from being true to who you are.” [Watch]
Director Alessandro Novelli in London: “TFL: Retail was commissioned by The Future Laboratory agency in London, a seamless journey among the different evolutions of retail services, from industrial mass production to on-line shopping, and the need of many shopkeepers to move forward towards a reformed retail system. [Watch]
Art director Fausto Montanari and the crew at Lobster Studio spent more than a year working with Amazon’s creative team to develop a vast array of upbeat illustration and animation assets for the company’s Halo activity tracker and app. [Watch]
Asked by Sony Music to create something “darkly beautiful” for a track off the new Johnny Cash album featuring The Royal Philharmonic, NYC director/animator Gabriel Tick responded with this enigmatic visual poem. [Watch]
Director/animator Marc Eijkelenboom’s melancholy CG short The Iceman is a passion project based on the real-life story of Dutch extreme athlete and author Wim Hof and speaks to the power of finding opportunity in tragedy. [Watch]
Designer/illustrator Sasha Vinogradova in Los Angeles: “Forest is an environmentally conscious fairy tale that doubles as a grim fable about humans’ capacity for destruction.” [Watch]
