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“Excitable Edgar” Lights Up Christmas for John Lewis

London’s Untold Studios just leaped onto the world-wide VFX radar nailing the chance to work with Blink director Dougal Wilson and create a loveable dragon named Edgar for this year’s John Lewis Christmas epic. [Watch]

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Aldi “Greatest Show” by Todd Mueller and Kylie Matulick

Kevin the Carrot is back for another Aldi holiday adventure courtesy of Stink directors Todd Mueller and Kylie Matulick with animation/VFX by Psyop and cheeky references to Peaky Blinders, A Christmas Carol, and The Greatest Showman. [Watch]

League of Legends’ True Damage “GIANTS” Music Video

Following on their 2018 breakout music video for virtual K-pop girl group K/DA, League of Legends enlists UK animation house The Line to make lightning strike twice – this time with a hip-hop-inspired group called True Damage. [Watch]

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Poulehouse “Solidarity Hens” by Akama

The all-Paris team of director Akama, prodco Wizz, and 3D specialists NKI (who created this comic treat for Renault) are back with more brilliant CG character work – this time for French ethical egg producer Poulehouse. [Watch]

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Digital Design Days 2019 Trailer by Ditroit (Director’s Cut)

Milan motion studio Ditroit promoed the Digital Design Days 2019 festival in their home town with this elegant CG experiment which they say “represents the contamination of ideas through creativity.” [Watch]

Watch Julius Horsthuis’ Fractal Nightmare “Philosophical Zombie Factory”

Dutch fractal artist Julius Horsthuis’ describes his latest opus as “extremely noisy and incredibly vague,” but the resulting clip is a taut and haunting abstraction that feels like a WIP for the opening titles of a very dark TV series. [Watch]