Director/writer Adam Paloian, best known for his SpongeBob SquarePants exploits, and animator/YouTuber Chris O’Neill leave few tropes unturned in this comic romp for Tenacious D (all rendered in Unreal Engine). [Watch]
French directing duo Mathilde Loubes and Antoine Bonnet, who created the outstanding Un Diable dans la Poche animated short during their students days at Gobelins, just completed this lyrical five-minute opus for the Paris Opera. [Watch]
From the team at Black Dog Films in London: “Black Dog’s Adam Smith and his creative partner Marcus Lyall reunited with regular collaborators The Chemical Brothers to create new live visuals for the track ‘No Reason’.” [Watch]
Creative director Remy Williams and the crew at Fluent in London break out a full host of super-CG abstractions in these sequences for Amazon Fire TV, designed to mesmerize shoppers as they enter retail TV showrooms. [Watch]
Adrien Boutin at Manic Motion in Montpellier, France: “Leonin (aka Raphaël Coqblin), is a French artist mixing classical and electro music. The universe for this video was designed by the director Olivier Bonhomme, an illustrator based in Montpellier, who produced fifteen plates in a surrealistic style and asked us to animate them.” [Watch]
After watching the growth of AI in video with both curiosity and anxiety, Berlin-based director Xaver Boehm says he felt overwhelmed but decided to embrace the tools when he realized the technology was here to stay. [Watch]
