OddBeast Adds Gracie Markus, Ups Liam Conway
March 31, 2025
In a nice contrast to the wealth of CG holiday work, Strange Beast directing duo Tjoff Koong wrangle a flurry of magical socks for Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London to help seriously ill kids spend Christmas at home with their families. [Watch]
The creative and production teams behind IGA’s standout 2019 holiday film “Inseparables” regroup for another animated heartwarmer for the grocery chain, this time fusing food, family, and hockey into a very Canadian tale. [Watch]
A powerful allegory about the plight of climate refugees, the multi-award-winning and Oscar-eligible CG short film “Migrants” was directed by five 5th year students at PÔLE 3D, an animation school based in Roubaix, France. [Watch]
Inspired by an exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay on various forms of prostitution in Paris in the last half of the 19th century, five GOBELINS animation grad students craft a harrowing tale of a young ballerina in 1895. [Watch]
Hornet director Ariel Costa pours his trademark collage talents into this atmospheric, jewel-toned spot for Sazerac’s small-batch bourbon whiskey brand 1792 thru agency The Buntin Group. [Watch]
Ten years after completing his culture-shifting stop-motion spot “Back to the Start” for Chipotle, Nexus director Johnny Kelly helms a sequel – updating and extending the conversation around sustainable farming for a more complex time. [Watch]
Working with Object & Animal directing duo Bert & Bertie, the Framestore creature crew ramp up the furry charm of an imaginary friend named Iggy in this holiday tear-trigger for McDonald’s UK thru Leo Burnett. [Watch]
The landmark 150th issue of Stash just dropped and we could not be more proud. Together with our subscribers, submitters, and fans we’ve built the planet’s largest motion design archive while providing inspiration and insight for professionals and students in over 100 countries. [Watch]
On a mission to save Christmas from rubbish gift-givers, BlinkInk director James Papper, illustrator Vivienne Shao, and MC/DJ D Double E slam together a bit of hypnotic chaos for Camden Town Brewery thru Wieden+Kennedy London. [Watch]
Using the pandemic as context, CDs Ilya Perevedentsev, Valeriy Lunchuk, and their crew at Superdesigners in Moscow look at “the conflict between the human urge to create and environmental constraints” in a haunting new inhouse film. [Watch]
Strange and wonderful things are happening in the mountains of Iceland courtesy of director Diarmid Harrison-Murray, the VFX crew at Untold Studios in London, and actress Rebecca Ferguson (Dune, multiple Mission Impossible‘s). [Watch]
Four Gobelins animation students Eric Bradford (Sweden), Techin Chen (Taiwan), Virág Negyedy (Hungary), and Jose Alejandro Segura Mena (Costa Rica), find common ground in a bittersweet story about hierarchies and archetypes in the modern workplace. [Watch]
This year’s holiday spot for UK supermarket chain Aldi finds Psyop back in the director’s chair with a Dickensian tale of Kevin the Carrot and Ebanana Scrooge “on a journey to find turkey, pudding, and the true meaning of Christmas.” [Watch]
Director Oskar Gullstrand and the animation crew at Naive in Stockholm ask the prickly question “What are you really sleeping on?” in these three CG spots for Swedish bed and bedding brand Sova thru the Garbergs agency. [Watch]
