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]
Swedish art director/designer Joakim Ekstroem fuses his passion for skateboarding with magic realism in this short film exploring how the obsessive search for spots to skate “ultimately shapes the way you perceive the world.” [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]
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]
In a welcome contrast to the reverent tone of much Olympic content, directors Jean-Yves Parent and Michael Moercant (aka 4pm) at The Mill in Paris celebrate the event with a lighthearted in-house short film cast with antique tin toy characters. [Watch]
