If the mid-December chills are taking their toll on your mood, I can recommend escaping into the sunny and stress-free world created by Detroit animator/illustrator Nick Parente in his music video for Flamingosis (aka Aaron Velasquez). [Watch]
Underground cartoonist/animator/director Mike Wartella and his Brooklyn studio Dream Factory Animation roll out the requisite hand-made, low tech techniques for a White Stripes song in this messy visual blast for “Let’s Shake Hands” from The White Stripes Greatest Hits released Dec. 2020. [Watch]
Artist Simon Stålenhag, whose paintings inspired the Amazon series “Tales from the Loop”, makes his directorial debut with this music video for songwriter/producer (and fellow Swede) Duvchi – with Stockholm’s Goodbye Kansas handling VFX. [Watch]
Yes, 2020 feels like a write-off in many ways but Stash 144 proves the planet’s designers, animators, and VFX artists faced the storm with unwavering resolve and new levels of innovation. [Watch]
Berlin-based Taiwanese animation director Cheng-Hsu Chung and Barcelona artist/illustrator Ricardo Cavolo combine their shared proclivity for the enigmatic into a mellow and tripped-out visual feast for British musical artist Chelou. [Watch]
Director and video artist Yoshi Sodeoka in New York: “Lately I’ve been making a lot of audio-reactive generative works using a technique based on reaction diffusion. I realized that the pulsing rhythmic structure of “Spike” makes it a perfect audio track to synchronize with a visual improvisation on the impulse and evolution of imaginary microorganisms. [Watch]
