London animation studio Shotopop may have outdone themselves with this promo for the Marvel Snap digital collectible card game as YouTube commenters are now begging Marvel for a Deadpool animated series based on this style. [Watch]
Balázs Simon’s new video for British duo Sad Night Dynamite (co-directed with Cátia Abreu) is a darkly comic conflagulation of prosthetics and nightmarish digital VFX but the good news is he just dropped Stash fans a peek into the process. [Watch]
Blinkink director Zach Tavel builds a mythological world from miniatures and models to house the godly comedic talents of Kate Berlant in this aggressively oddball launch film for California plant-based cheese brand Plonts. [Watch]
The CG sub-genre of dramatic sculptural character diorama’s sees an ambitious new chapter with this launch trailer from director Jakub Jabłoński and the crew at Platige Image for the Esports World Cup (EWC) in Riyadh. [Watch]
Working with CD Theresa Warburton and the creative team at CBC Sports in Toronto, animator/illustrator Amir Mrzae amplifies the multi-dimensional joie de vivre on display at the Paris Olympics in two wonderfully upbeat films. [Watch]
Directors Joey Recoskie and DissEmbargo (Sebastian Helene and The Dink) lead the Tendril design and motion team on this intimate peek at the F.02 robot, Figure’s second-generation model of “embodied artificial intelligence.” [Watch]
The growing (and welcome) trend of studios to passionately carry on with projects after they have been cancelled by the client continues with the release of this cutscene compilation produced by Glasgow CG mavens Revenant. [Watch]
In a welcome contrast to the reverent tone of much Olympic content, directors Jean-Yves Parent and Michael Moercant (aka 4pm) at The Mill in Paris celebrate the event with a lighthearted in-house short film cast with antique tin toy characters. [Watch]
Back Market’s in-house agency partners with Vienna’s Studio Herrström and Toronto motion house Vucko to rethink the brand’s visual identity. [Watch]
After 18 months of production, director/CD Jake Wegesin, who launched animation studio Ambient Press in 2022, just completed 16+ minutes of snappy 3D content for New Roots Films’ feature documentary God Bless Bitcoin. [Watch]
Mill+ director David Lawson gives Stash fans exclusive insights into the creative and technical challenges of his latest 3D game trailer and considers how the genre has evolved over the last five years. [Watch]
Tektite, a German studio specializing in AI production for brands and advertising, teams with agency TEAMBBDO to create “The Revived”, a tribute to Ukrainian athletes killed defending their country in the war with Russia. [Watch]
Blinkink director Sam Gainsborough reteams with animator Andy Biddle on this innovative spot for British retailer Co-op thru agency VCCP, printing 900 2D frames onto individual shop receipts and then animating them in stop-motion. [Watch]
Continuing their quest to raise awareness of global issues, Studio Birthplace leverage their narrative and VFX talents to help environmental non-profit Canopy sound the alarm that 3.1 billion trees are cut each year for paper packaging. [Watch]