The 2019 Berlin edition of the CICLOPE Festival opened with Final Frontier and Le Cube’s semi-autobiographical journey back to the 80s and 90s “fondly recalling days in the city, skating, sketching tattoos, and exploring self expression.” [Watch]
After opening the holiday tear faucet last year with Henry Hedgehog’s “First Christmas” (Stash 133), Passion Animation directors Kyra & Constantin are back with another fuzzy and lovable CG cast for Erste Group Bank thru agency Jung von Matt/DONAU. [Watch]
Born in Northern Italy and now based in Helsinki, Finland, Lucas Zanotto started out as a product designer before moving into motion design, directing, building zany apps for kids, and most recently CG character loops. [Watch]
The combined talents of U.S. style masters Los York and Berlin CG iconoclasts f°am Studio nudge this film for Motorola’s folding-screen update of their classic Razr over the line into a mainstream hit as it nears 40M views on YouTube. [Watch]
Hot on the heels of Todd Mueller and Kylie Matulick’s holiday spectacular for Aldi, fellow Psyopian Marie Hyon crafts a heart-warmer for Chick-Fil-A thru McCann in support of more “together time” for families everywhere. [Watch]
What is it like to not recognize faces? Even your own. German studio Fabian&Fred and neuroscientist/filmmaker Valentin Riedl offer answers by turning one woman’s real-life struggles with prosopagnosia (face blindness) into a visually poetic film. [Watch]
