Elastic creative director Jeff Han tells Stash how chess became the metaphor for the strategic battle between post-war Nazis and Al Pacino’s team of “Hunters” in the titles of Amazon’s new original series. [Watch]
Variations on the rounded red square of Huawei’s AppGallery logo act as the narrative thread binding together the disparate vignettes of this vigorous spot for the company’s official app distribution platform with design and VFX by The-Artery NY. [Watch]
The team at NotReal in Buenos Aires fuse their typographic, motion, and live-action production skills into a wonderfully kinetic, compact, and lighthearted brand film complete with making-of video. [Watch]
Seattle director/CG artist Richard Lord, who crafted one of our favorite CG music videos of all time for Alessandro Parisi in 2019, creates a kooky/cool new breed of automated alien life in this promo for Plus Device called “Our Pleasures” [Watch]
Larian Studios’ launch of the latest take on the Dungeons & Dragons RPG franchise Baldur’s Gate includes this formidable opening sequence animated by Unit Image with obvious passion, and given the scale of action and set pieces, unlimited ambition. [Watch]
After six years in the biz, Barcelona animation/illustration prodco Drasik Studio just dropped their first personal project, a visceral and manic frame-by-frame 2D experiment called “Bend Reality”. [Watch]