The Passion Pictures crew, lead by director Jon Saunders, draws inspiration from anime while pushing past the genre’s limits in this atmospheric and action-packed new trailer for Garena’s online battle royale game Free Fire. [Watch]
Vancouver animation studio Linetest craft a prismatic mix of 2D and 3D styles to illustrate the growing impact of ocean noise pollution on the bowhead whale population for the WWF Arctic Programme in Canada. [Watch]
Bristol’s own master of ruff-house animation Russ Murphy continues his quest for hand-drawn nirvana in this latest collaboration with US musicians/producers Ross Harris and Frank Leone – a fun and infectious track called “Shoulder Wire”. [Watch]
Your lizard brain, a part of the limbic system processing our most primal emotions, wakes up and takes over in this happy rant from Private Island director Chris Boyle for financial app Yolt thru Uncommon Creative Studio. [Watch]
Winner of a Student Academy Award in 2020, Pascal Schelbli’s graduation film The Beauty mixes live-action underwater footage with innovative VFX for an intriguing take on the problem of ocean plastic. [Watch]
The abstracted reconstruction of a Buddha stands as an apt metaphor for the soothing powers of a spa in Vilnius, Lithuania, during this tranquil video by Rimantas Lukavicius and the crew at Korb. [Watch]
