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Tetsuya Nomura for Louis Vuitton Series 4

Merging anime, motion capture and haute couture, this way-over-the-top CG fashion film, directed by legendary Square Enix game designer/director Tetsuya Nomura, casts Final Fantasy heroine Lightning as the star of Louis Vuitton’s Spring 2016 collection. [Watch]

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Trizz: Creative Closets (Directors Cut)

Closet-envy reaches staggering new heights in this intricate and stylish wardrobe fantasy from Riyadh agency Bold and CG specialists Trizz who handled design, animation, color grading, photo shoot, and worked with Cannonball in Barcelona on live action production. [Watch]

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Ash Thorp’s Title Design Course via Learn Squared

Through his education venture Learn Squared, title design phenom Ash Thorp demonstrates how to “craft detailed and thoughtful main title designs” while students “learn the core principles of successful titles, and are challenged to put these concepts to work by creating multiple examples of their own.” [Watch]

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Marc Craste Reconnects “Neighbors” for Morton Salt

Studio AKA director Marc Craste and Blacklist take on the challenge of injecting warmth and emotion into an ad for one of the planet’s humblest of consumer products: sidewalk ice melt. [Watch]

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Jacob Ferguson, Adrian Pumarejo Reveal “The Invisible Truth”

Completed over the course of four months as their senior thesis film, Ringling College Motion Design students Jacob Ferguson and Adrian Pumarejo capture the mind-altering terror of child abuse in this atmospheric and visceral jolt of stylized CG called “The Invisible Truth.” [Watch]

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Simon Russell Explores Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time”

75 years ago this month, French composer, organist and ornithologist Olivier Messiaen premiered “Quartet for the End of Time” while held captive in a WWII prisoner-of-war camp. [Watch]