You have to love the confidence and audacity of brand films that create desire with style instead of explanations. Such is the case with this abstract and austere piece for Bavarian e-bike innovators FAZUA by Hamburg 3D artist Vincent Schwenk. [Watch]
Take a peek at the storymatic and animatic stages behind Le Cube’s latest pop culture out-burst for Cartoon Network Latin America – packed with “enough geeky 90’s culture, video games, and worst-best-movie references to make your heads explode.” [Watch]
Sweet, silly, sad, and ultimately sublime, the culmination of Nikita Diakur’s intriguing and innovative Ugly Project is a 12-minute animated fever dream the director describes as “a broken simulated short film about kindness and coexistence.” [Watch]
Animator/illustrator Nata Metlukh (now based in San Francisco) created her graduation film “Pura Vida” while studying at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn under the mentorship of acclaimed animator Priit Pärn. [Watch]
Three amped-up animated films anchoring the campaign for Nike’s new PhantomVSN soccer boot crafted in concert with Nike’s design team by London’s Golden Wolf who also created in-store visuals. [Watch]
This gripping animated mini-doc details the true story of Bisi Alimi, a former Nigerian TV star who went from “preaching hell fire and damnation” about homosexuality to the first person in his country to come out on national TV. [Watch]