Our first nominee for the “Best COVID-related Creative” award goes to Canadian discount grocery chain No Frills for this PSA/music video by the all-Toronto team of VFX shop The Vanity, audio collective SNDWRx, and agency John St. [Watch]
Moscow motion and concept designer Maslov Sergey gathers 19 sound designers and 22 motion designers to reverse the usual motion-first production pipeline and reveal “the full creative abilities of both professions.” [Watch]
Director, motion designer, and CG artist Ryo Kitabatake at WOW in Tokyo stirs together mystery, isolation, and atmosphere in this sweeping music video for the DJ Shadow track “Slingblade”. [Watch]
Collin Leix, animator at Gunner in Detroit: “A fun short we made for Gunner’s instagram for Valentine’s day, 2020.
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Mathijs Luijten: “I’ve been listening to Tycho’s music since I was 15. So when he asked me to create a video for his title track ‘Weather’, I jumped at the opportunity!” [Watch]
Director Ben Brand: “When my girlfriend told me the story of spreading her deceased grandmother’s ash over the sea (like a lot of people around the world do) I started wondering what actually happens to all that ash.” [Watch]