“Otto,” the lovely new animated short from Oscar-nominated Dutch trio Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins, and Marieke Blaauw is a great way to end your Friday (or any day, really). [Watch]
Kim Gryun, a designer/animator at GIANTSTEP in Seoul, South Korea, responded to the studio’s latest in-house DesignRelay motion study group theme of “H.R. Giger” with this carefully lit and richly detailed take on “Alien.” [Watch]
Tokyo CG artist and visual programmer Nobutaka Kitahara creates a fascinating alien world of floating geometric structures in “Flow,” his captivating 60-second 3D short that I wish was many times longer. [Watch]
The New Zealand edition of Semi-Permanent 2018 launched in Auckland this summer with refreshingly light-hearted titles directed by Marc Smith out of MPC Creative in New York with support from the MPC crew in Bangalore. [Watch]
London branding/ad agency Mmmultiply merge their collective paranoia with a brilliant take on lyrics from Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” to create these twitchy and beautifully stylized titles for FOX’s new spy series “Deep State.” [Watch]
Inspired by vinyl toys and afro-futurism, New York director Kristian Mercado enlists Buenos Aires studio DeTuco to conjure a tripped out 2D/3D animated adventure for venerable American hip hop trio De La Soul. [Watch]
