Bob Marley drives the BttF Delorean. That’s all you really need to know about this beautifully illustrated widescreen video for Russian rapper Miyagi’s ode to Jamaica’s greatest cultural export by artist/animator Shakhnazar Borboev. [Watch]
Kathrin Steinbacher and Emily Downe at Studio Desk in London: “After the outbreak of COVID-19 and the beginnings of global lockdown, we sent out a call to animators from around the world to send us a short animation depicting something positive they have experienced, seen, or thought in the midst of this strange time.” [Watch]
Category Animation, Character Animation, Illustration, The Inbox · Tags Alexander Gratzer, Amanda Bonaiuto, Amit Cohen, Angela Stempel, Anna Smirnova, Bryan Lee, Elisabetta Bosco, Emily Downe, Fabian Friedrich, Gabriela Sibilska, Gabriella Marsh, Good Golly, Hannah Brewerton, Iulia Voitova, Jan Willem de With, Jenny Jokela, Jodi Lai, Kathrin Steinbacher, Kiana Naghshineh, Kyle Xuereb Cuningham, Laura Jayne Hodkin, Lewis Heriz, Liang-Hsin Huang, Lydia Reid, Magali García, Magdalena Kreps, Nofar Schweitzer, Rachel Gutgarts, Studio Desk, Trang Nguyen
In their latest round of work for The Paramount Channel, Airplan Studio in Budapest, Hungary, unites films from various genres into a consistent campaign with a look reminiscent of airbrushed and serigraph movie posters. [Watch]
Sam Bourner, producer at UK motion studio Persistent Peril: “This is a short animated book teaser to promote Owen Davey’s ‘Obsessive About Octopuses’ for Flying Eye Books. [Watch]
Designer/director Matt Smithson (aka one half of Igor + Valentine): “Made for fun to switch the focus from virus things to the beautiful bloomering earth around me. Bloom bloompt blummed, spring has sprung.” [Watch]
Director/animator Robertas Nevecka in Vilnius, Lithuania: “The curious routines of film set people killing time in quarantine. Based on daily film set illustrations.” [Watch]