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NASCAR Races to 75th Anniversary in New Spot from Mark Jenkinson and The Mill

Despite boasting the longest list of VFX credits we’ve ever seen for a commercial, director Mark Jenkinson and The Mill crew keep narrative and emotion firmly in the foreground of NASCAR’s ambitious 75th anniversary film. [Watch]

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Nikopicto Unleashes a Riot of Rabbits for HSBC’s PayMe

The year of the rabbit will never be the same after this rampage of impossibly happy triple-threat bunnies created by CD Nicolas Lesaffre and the crew at Nikopicto in Hong Kong for HSBC’s PayMe mobile payment service. [Watch]

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YSL “Rouge Pur Couture” Lipstick Product Film by rfvisuals

With an OCD-level of attention to lighting and rendering, art director Rui Figueiredo and his studio rfvisuals in South Korea elevate YSL’s Rouge Pur Couture lipstick into an objet d’art and a virtual icon of luxury. [Watch]

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CrowdStrike Saves Troy in Super Bowl Debut

Radical Media director Tarsem Singh and Framestore’s NY VFX crew added a hint of Monty Python to Super Bowl LVII with the debut spot for US cybersecurity company CrowdStrike (seen here in the extended 60-second version). [Watch]

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Squarespace Takes Adam Driver to the Super Bowl

Smuggler director Aoife McArdle and London VFX/post house Black Kite Studios help a confused Adam Driver figure out “The Singularity” in this extended 90-second version of Squarespace’s 2023 Super Bowl spot. [Watch]

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What’s the Gimmick with Gimmick’s New Reel?

Stash does not publish many demo reels because most do not coalesce into anything more than the sum of their parts: a series of clips and a music track. Working with Quebec music mavens Supersavant, Montreal’s Gimmick Studio achieves a rare thing, a motion design reel that you wish was longer. [Watch]