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]
In her first commission since signing with Nexus Studios, recent NFTS animation graduate Neeraja Raj helms an ambitious 90-second spot driving home the fact one in 10 people do not have easy access to clean drinking water. [Watch]
Determined to fight virus fatigue with absurdist comedy, New York director/animator Dante Zaballa and Welsh artist Osian Efnisien (who also collaborated on Zabella’s Doodle Project II), release a “groundbreaking documentary that nobody asked for.” [Watch]
The MPC crew in New York provides the VFX and post glue holding together 100 rollicking seconds of art and action in this spot from Anonymous Content director Marco Prestini for Dell’s new global “Youniverse” campaign thru VMLY&R. [Watch]
