Chris Lloyd’s Wonderfully “Silly Robots”

YLLW is the animation and illustration studio of London director Chris Lloyd: “Silly Robots, our first studio project, started off as a joke and quickly became a passion project that grew into 50 looping gifs that we shared across our different social media channels daily.” [Watch]

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EISPRUNG “Ivan’s Need” (Mature)

Possibly the freshest student film we’ve seen this year, “Ivan’s Need” is the gloriously strange graduation film of Lucerne University students Veronica L. Montaño, Manuela Leuenberger, and Lukas Suter. [Watch]

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Mainframe’s “BASH” Dynamic Experiments

To celebrate the release of the MASH Dynamics node in Maya 2018, UK 3D masters Mainframe “set out to create a selection of experimental, dynamic scenes using simple primitive shapes as the base objects.” [Watch]

Dan Castro “Big Finds A Trumpet”

Royal College of Art student Dan Castro calls “Big Finds A Trumpet,” his charming first-year animation film, “A love letter to 50s design and 80s British children’s TV; a love letter to my childhood.” [Watch]

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FutureDeluxe “Colour on Colour” Experiment

Part of an ongoing R&D project at the London studios of 3D boundary-pushers FutureDeluxe, “Colour on Colour” uses live action footage to drive intricate and beautiful procedural CG particle animations. [Watch]

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More Mesmerizing Mid-century Motion

In 2015 German animator Henning M. Lederer scored a cult hit with his hypnotic animated short “Covers” by infusing 55 mid-century book designs with motion. “More Covers” expands the exercise with 36 additional publications. [Watch]