London animator/Illustrator Anita Gill just slipped us her short film Check, a look at OCD, “Expressing feelings of anxiety, urgency and frustration through beautiful, abstract visuals and looping, chaotic sounds.” [Watch]
The design and animation team at Brikk in Stockholm stage the leisurely and idyllic journey of an espresso machine from Italy to Norway in this thoughtfully rendered product launch film for La Marzocco. [Watch]
Somewhere in the future, when the world has come to its senses and finally establishes the Car Insurance Advertising Hall of Fame (CIAHoF), this spot from Division directing duo Mrzyk & Moriceau will be inducted for sheer audacity. [Watch]
Gabriele Montinaro, a freelance motion designer based in Italy, bares his heart and understandably tortured soul in this exuberant motion exercise (and even more energetic process reel) about a problem many creatives identify with. [Watch]
Finding a muse in his six-year-old daughter, Spanish mixed media specialist Antoni Sendra hand-paints 2,000 printed video frames to create a sweet and heartfelt ode to the magic of childhood and family in his short film “Joana”. [Watch]
CDs Bianca Sangalli Moretti and Gianluca Patti, who met at art school in Italy, just dropped us the launch film for their Florence-based animation/illustration studio NORA, an energized flurry of design styles designed to showcase their “desire for discovery”. [Watch]