UK retailer John Lewis maintains their place atop the holiday ad ecosystem with another note-perfect tear-fest – this year’s edition arriving courtesy of Smuggler director Mark Molloy and London VFX and post house nineteentwenty. [Watch]
Framestore Pictures’ director Murray Butler and the Framestore creature VFX team resurrect a 70 million-year-old Utahraptor (voiced by Jack Black) to deliver a message about the dangers of fossil fuel subsidies and their contribution to our own extinction. [Watch]
Egyptian director Maged Nassar, who dropped this piece of stylish chaos for Pepsi Black in 2020, keeps up the manic energy in this explosion of handmade multi-media (including stop-motion) for Saudi Arabian telecom Zain. [Watch]
Trapped in the desert sand, alien skeletons crumble into dust in this haunting and obsessively detailed promo from the team at Panoply in London for the new season of American Horror Story on FX. [Watch]
Building on the success of Burberry’s breakout 2020 holiday ad, Riff Raff directors Megaforce and MPC’s VFX team regroup to conjure more weather-driven extreme dancing while elevating the choreography to magical new heights. [Watch]
Transitioning from darkness to fearless over two and a half minutes, this new work for Sick Kids hospital directed by Mark Zibert with VFX and post by The Vanity is one of the most rousing and emotional spots you will witness this year. [Watch]
