Brooklyn designer/animator Caresse Haaser brings a soft illustrative touch to this visual essay about the nature and direction of today’s online ecosystem written, voiced, and art directed by Alexis Lloyd at Automattic Design. [Watch]
In her second animated video for NPR’s Invisibilia podcast, art director and motion designer Francesca Cattaneo explores the “fascinating mystery of locusts and our sense of self.” [Watch]
Director/animator Eoin Duffy’s minimalist animation stands in stark contrast to English actor Jack Cutmore-Scott’s fraught reading of William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming” in this film commissioned by TED-Ed. [Watch]
London animator and director Jocie Juritz reveals the creative and technical challenges she overcame in creating the animated trailer for Dr. Julia Shaw’s book Making Evil. [Watch]
Ridley Scott talks about his return to advertising after a 15-year hiatus to direct Hennessy’s four-minute brand film “The Seven Worlds,” produced thru agency DDB Paris with MPC handling the extensive VFX. [Watch]
The first episode of Style Origins – a new CNN series exploring objects and designs that changed industries – unrolls the surprising 2,400 year-old history of the red carpet with CNN art director Ignacio Osorio handling the design and animation. [Watch]
