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March 31, 2025
A massive hit on the festival circuit, Franck Dion’s short film “Per Aspera Ad Astra” uses miniatures and animation to strike a soft and enigmatic tone while it explores the life of a little hen balancing her work and family life. [Watch]
Founder Franco Tassi and the CG team at Taxfreefilm in Parma, Italy, leave no detail unpolished in this incredibly intricate ode to the legendary watches in the Omega catalog including James Bond’s Seamaster. [Watch]
Commissioned by Ogilvy London to create the content for Nokia’s rebranding launch, RedStrings Productions in Cape Town, South Africa, constructs a “vast world of exponential growth and amplification.” [Watch]
Director/animator duo Sean Wehrli and Mayukh Goswami back up rappers Dave East, Jay Electronica, and Tavis Sage with a hand-crafted music video full of grit and shadows for NYC non-profit Hoodies for the Homeless. [Watch]
While brand explainer films are now ubiquitous, there are very few that actually use the featured product to create the finished visuals – like, say, this one by Vancouver’s Ordinary Folk for the browser-based real-time 3D app Spline. [Watch]
Until they were sidelined by the Omicron variant, these six joyful and abstract films created by NYC’s Block & Tackle, were going to run on a massive 52′ by 18′ LED screen amplifying Google’s presence at CES 2022. [Watch]
Starting with the true story of American twins Jim Lewis, Jim Springer, and their freakishly identical lives after being separated at birth, Richard Noble’s RCA grad film looks beyond the spooky coincidences into the concept of free will. [Watch]
Following up on their CG launch trailer for the Naraka Championship, international prodco Final Frontier partners with animation house Le Cube for this cel-animated promo for Naraka: Bladepoint’s new season “Echelon”. [Watch]
Indie pop band The Extravagants (aka Laura Milligan and Mike King) engage Bay Area animation studio Little Fluffy Clouds to create a mystical “modern-day dreamscape” for their new track “Zero into Nine”. [Watch]
To protest Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, more than 100 Russian artists, animators, musicians, and sound designers are teaming up to release a series of animated short films that repeat the cry “HET BOЙHE” (No War). [Watch]
Master CG stylists Frame in Copenhagen continue their long-term collaboration with Danish lighting design company Louis Poulsen with two new films, part of a series designed to unveil the brand’s 2022 Collection. [Watch]
This impossible-to-ignore new CG character spot by Auckland animation house Cirkus thru agency Milk + Honey United takes a poke at the status quo healthcare system for Australian virtual care provider Rosemary Health. [Watch]
Self-promotional videos can be a slippery slope for motion studios, often sliding into over-earnest or over-confident manifestos but Animagic strikes the right tone with this two-minute look at the importance of stories in human history. [Watch]
Veteran UK director/designer/illustrator/animator Al Boardman mines his challenges with dyslexia and ADHD to craft a very personal and appropriately frenetic short film about the increasing “feelings of constant distraction that we all feel.” [Watch]
