The London five-piece rock’n’roll outfit known as Dead Pirates just dropped this retro-subversive (and not all-together SFW) video for “UGO” from their upcoming album HIGHMARE animated by their co-founder McBess, the French illustrator extraordinaire and one half of Passion directing duo McBess & Simon. [Watch]
Fun and informative potty-mouthed short from Austin brand studio The Butler Bros with animation by Buck‘s LA studio for the Clif Bar Family Foundation maintains “our food system is f*cked, but we can fix it.” [Watch]
Veteran motion masters Lobo and US agency 22squared enlist giant robots and an intrepid young girl to announce the latest environmental initiative from Atlanta carpet giant Interface, Inc. in this sweeping and emotional two-minute animated opus. [Watch]
Running a successful design business for a decade and a half is beyond tough. Keeping your creative output intriguing and meaningful while you do it is a balancing act few studios master. Meanwhile in London, 15 years after their launch, branding and motion house DixonBaxi seem to be just getting underway. [Watch]
Join LUMBRE, the Buenos Aires animation and design studio for a look at how they conjured the zany energy of their branding campaign for Boing, the sister channel to Turner’s Cartoon Network and Boomerang currently on air in Italy, France, Spain and South Africa. [Watch]
Wonderful hand-rendered flow to this quasi-minimal, stream of consciousness music video from UK animators Anna Ginsburg and Gworge (aka George Wheeler) for South London rapper/actor Loyle Carner called “Stars and Shards.” [Watch]
