In one of the most ambitious animated music videos of the last decade, London Alley director Mathew Cullen and Nathan Love animation director Joe Burrascano rally a massive crew for Katy Perry’s surreal circus romp in “Smile”. [Watch]
London VFX force Time Based Arts adds impressive visual muscle to the global launch spot for PlayStation 5 – touting its DualSense wireless controller and 3D audio – directed by Biscuit’s Dan DiFelice through adam&eveDDB. [Watch]
The Mathematic VFX crew in Paris stitch together a dizzying array of shots for Caviar director Henry Scholfield’s latest visual feast: a 60-second spot for the launch of Gojek ride-hailing and food delivery services in Vietnam. [Watch]
The Gondry brothers’ lockdown project, a music video for UK rock band IDLES, finds Michel animating paper cutouts in his Los Angeles studio on his iPhone then sending the frames to Olivier in Paris for CG enhancement and post. [Watch]
Paris animation/VFX studio Machine Molle and Division director Arnaud Bresson create a riveting (and convincing) X-ray vision peek into the life and times of Brooklyn rap trio Flatbush Zombies. [Watch]
Corporate stock footage is hilarious enough on it’s but in this video for electronic supergroup Bronson, Smuggler directors StyleWar, The Mill, and editor Noah Herzog push the genre to a brilliant new extreme. [Watch]
