Working through Japanese collective CALF, animation director Takashi Ohashi delivers a masterclass in character and style with this music video for Hatsuboshi Gakuen, the fictional band from the mobile game Gakuen Idolmaster. [Watch]
3D artist Martynas Genkovas just dropped us his new personal short film called Inspired by, an enigmatic collision of his architectural photography and ink-on-paper artwork with organic layers of crystalline 3D. [Watch]
Wonderfully relatable characters bound together by interwoven narratives, gentle humor, and a sense of poetry make the student short film Jour de Vent (Windy Day) a nice break from our usual diet of brand-driven work. [Watch]
Magna directing duo Ivo Beckett and James Topley (aka DEADHORSES) tear into the rough and ready nature of women’s football in this noisy yet surgically assembled promo for Channel 4’s coverage of The Adobe Women’s FA Cup. [Watch]
French motion studio NŌBL channels the strategy and sacrifice of a chess match in this film for Vitality, one of Europe’s top esports teams, and their participation in the Esports World Cup 2026 this summer in Riyadh. [Watch]
Eccentric comedy is one of our favorite strategies for punching out of adland clutter, and it’s deftly handled here by director Ugo Mangin and Brussels prodco Hamlet for French ride-hailing app Heetch thru Paris agency Grinta. [Watch]
