Feeling more like exposition from a sci-fi film than a corporate explainer, this pristinely rendered CG film by LA director Vasil Hnatiuk for Boston biotech Genoskin shows how keeping human skin samples alive allows biomedical companies to reduce animal testing. [Watch]
Director David Farquharson and the crew at UK studio Bolder Creative craft a tactile and dreamlike set of campaign assets to launch new athletic wear for premium cycling apparel maker ASSOS Of Switzerland. [Watch]
Inspired by the 1941 short story La Biblioteca de Babel by Argentine author and poet Jorge Luis Borges, Sydney-based designer/director James van den Elshout conjures otherworldly spaces to hold all of human knowledge. [Watch]
The phone camera wars just peaked with Chinese mobile maker OnePlus partnering with venerable Swedish photography brand Hasselblad as seen in this spot directed by Michael Gracey thru Mother Shanghai with VFX by Electric Theatre Collective. [Watch]
Wonderfully enigmatic new work here from London-based French animator (and former member of collective CRCR) Jonathan Djob Nkondo and illustrator/designer Sofia Pashaei, announcing the 2021 edition of the non-profit GLAS Animation Festival. [Watch]
Tendril’s latest adventure in beautiful CG engagement arrives in the form of an announcement for the partnership between psychedelic research company Cybin and neuroimaging innovator Kernel and the goal to “revolutionize mental healthcare”. [Watch]
Imaginary Forces director Karin Fong mixes live-action, practical effects, and CG in this standout package for Showtime’s docuseries Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine recounting the antics of a notorious hip-hop bad boy. [Watch]
The unmistakable stop-motion charm of Passion Animation director Anna Mantzaris energizes the dry comedy of this spot marking International Women’s Day for Global Women thru Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand. [Watch]
The ongoing resonance of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution snaps into stark focus in the Netflix docu-series “Amend: The Fight for America” thanks to powerful animation and graphics by LA studios Elastic and Titmouse. [Watch]
Shanghai director and motion designer Gigu Yang channels his passion for Hidetaka Miyazaki’s action-adventure video game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice into a meticulous and moody spec CG title sequence. [Watch]
ROOF Studios leverages their obsession with the smallest of life’s details to help connect modern audiences with the emotional story of an elderly German woman and her forced separation from family and loved ones during World War II. [Watch]
Friends and co-directors Stevie Borrello, Marcie LaCerte, and Meghan McDonough gather a series of real-life pandemic dreams into a surreal yet very resonant string of animated vignettes presented by The New Yorker. [Watch]
First conceived as the title sequence for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, this HBO Max promo uses the sentient autonomous computers known as Mother Boxes from the film as a way to explore the history of the six core superheroes. [Watch]
In 2020, director Ben Hibon and the animation team at Unit Image dropped two massive trailers for Riot Games’ new digital collectible card game Legends of Runeterra (here and here). This latest film is just as ambitious and carefully crafted. [Watch]