Psyop and Sun Creature Partner With Werner Herzog on “The Twilight World” Animated Feature
March 3, 2025
Aardman director Steve Harding-Hill returns to Mossy Bottom Farm to save Shaun the Sheep and a Christmas choir from the elements in this seasonal stop-motion treat for English luxury and lifestyle brand Barbour. [Watch]
Director Jake Wegesin and his animation studio Ambient Press (whose work we track here) just released his latest short film, an ambitious and deeply personal journey exploring themes of belonging and determination. [Watch]
Exploring the idea of natural rhythms vs. obsessive productivity, London-based director and 2D animator Emily Downe crafts a poetic and very topical short film with Theos, a Christian think tank based in the UK. [Watch]
The most recent collaboration between venerable Swiss watchmaker Ulysse Nardin and the team at Paris studio I-réel, weaves a mix of CG and macro photography into a sweeping launch campaign for the new Freak S Nomad timepiece. [Watch]
In their latest for the ubiquitous foam footwear brand Crocs, Bark&Bite in London takes a fashion-forward approach, merging live-action and 3D motion design into a quick blast of style for the Overpuff Cyber Clog. [Watch]
Now in his ninth year, UK Christmas favorite Kevin The Carrot pulls off an animated holiday heist full of cheeky one-liners for supermarket chain Aldi courtesy of Psyop directors Todd Mueller and Kylie Matulick thru McCann Manchester. [Watch]
Show creator Patrick McHale teams with directors Mikey Please, Dan Ojari, and the Aardman stop-motion team to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his much beloved (and Emmy-winning) Cartoon Network miniseries Over the Garden Wall. [Watch]
The CG motion specialists at Madrid studio Kutuko craft five intricate and scrupulously rendered scenes to showcase the deep relationship Hamilton watches have cultivated with cinema since the brand’s founding in 1932. [Watch]
Working with director/screenwriter Kelly Marcel, CD Karin Fong and the team at Imaginary Forces close out the Venom feature film trilogy with a “beastly parade” of corrupted creatures in this main-on-end title sequence. [Watch]
The 2024 holiday ad season arrives today with UK retailer Argos mascot Trevor the dinosaur living his best life as a rock star courtesy of Partizan director Michael Gracey and the (very busy) Electric Theatre Collective animation crew. [Watch]
London’s Huge Designs (whose work we track here) answers the call to communicate the tone, setting, character, and context for the Disney+ TV series Rivals based on the 1980s novels by English author Jilly Cooper. [Watch]
Somehow both manic and thoughtful, the latest short from director Chris Boyle and Private Island playfully fuses live-action, VFX, and generative images into a peek at the fun to be had when AI questions its relationship to humans. [Watch]
The potent combination of French directing collective Megaforce and London VFX house Electric Theatre Collective (see here and here for recent collabs) deliver a guaranteed crowd pleaser and future awards magnet for Apple. [Watch]
The latest 3D motion work from Rimantas Lukavicius and the KORB team for Nike finds the Lithuania-based studio crushing symbols and icons from LeBron Jame’s career in a spot for the LeBron XXII shoes releasing this week. [Watch]
