Derek Lau, a designer/animator currently working at BUCK in Sydney, takes time out from client work to transform his love of historical Chinese martial arts films into a painterly and carefully choreographed short film called Wanderer. [Watch]
Tim Miller and Blur Studio are following up Love, Death & Robots with Secret Level, a new Prime Video adult anthology series of 15 animated short films based on some of the planet’s most-played video games. [Watch]
Electric Studios, the creative crew housed within London VFX powerhouse Electric Theatre Collective, just dropped us the first in their series of original animated projects, an action fantasy about an aging but fearless cephalopod hunter. [Watch]
Art director/animator Ignacio Osorio (who won an Emmy for his motion work on CNN’s The Hippie Trails doc), conjures a tactile ode to geometric abstraction in this passion project, an intriguing mix of handmade collage and digital tools. [Watch]
Drawing on visual references including vintage museum dioramas and the pioneering stop-motion of Ray Harryhausen, LA director Brent Bonacorso leverages a happy accident in Midjourney into a rousing spec spot for Johnnie Walker. [Watch]
French animator and CG artist Paul Lavau (whose credits include Despicable Me 2 and Minions), teams with Paris studio Wizz to craft a trio of emotional vignettes capturing very personal memories of adolescence. [Watch]
