The Munich edition of the Forward Festival for creativity, design, and communication opened recently with this intense and inky CG sequence from Mill+ director Raj Davsi celebrating those who choose to be the Odd One Out. [Watch]
Lyric music videos often fall into the cheap and lazy bin but Spanish director/animators Magali García and Nacho Velasco inject a full shot of charm into this multi-media tale of an awkward boy and how “someone special makes him feel loved and free.” [Watch]
Creating visuals for an acid trip is the definition of “dream job” for animation types and Toronto’s Polyester Studio takes the opportunity to explore both the light and dark sides of the experience in this clip for the SyFy series Deadly Class. [Watch]
Inspired by the Greek god of time and his association with loss and return, ART+COM Studios in Berlin combines motion design, processing, and AI to create a beautiful and hypnotic kinetic media installation called Chronos XXI. [Watch]
Director Gavin Kelly and the Piranha Bar crew in Dublin reimagine characters from Epic Games’ defunct multiplayer online battle game Paragon into a body switch mockumentary about gamers trapped as their alter egos in the real world. [Watch]
Clara Lehmann, Jonathan Lacocque, and the crew at Coat of Arms partner with Google for Education and a global team of researchers and analysts “to examine evidence-based shifts in classroom education.” [Watch]