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March 31, 2025
Working with London studio Traum Inc., Melbourne video artist Nic Hamilton elevates the launch of the new Limited-Edition Fragment Design Powerbeats Pro earphones styled by Japanese musician, producer, and designer Hiroshi Fujiwara. [Watch]
Creative director Patrick Clair and the Antibody crew team with Mathematic Paris to dramatize a throughline to the near future where autonomous weapons are a definite problem in this ominous work for Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint. [Watch]
Director Kellan Stover and the crew at Powerhouse Animation in Austin dial up the anime flavor in these two branded short films for Magnum Ice Cream to address “the deep and meaningful pleasure that comes from being true to who you are.” [Watch]
How do you convince the shaving public that a single-bladed razor is not only worth a luxury price (up to $400) but is also a highly engineered, must-have objet d’art? The crew at PlayBack.design in Lithuania has a few beautiful ideas. [Watch]
Art director Fausto Montanari and the crew at Lobster Studio spent more than a year working with Amazon’s creative team to develop a vast array of upbeat illustration and animation assets for the company’s Halo activity tracker and app. [Watch]
Asked by Sony Music to create something “darkly beautiful” for a track off the new Johnny Cash album featuring The Royal Philharmonic, NYC director/animator Gabriel Tick responded with this enigmatic visual poem. [Watch]
Director/animator Marc Eijkelenboom’s melancholy CG short The Iceman is a passion project based on the real-life story of Dutch extreme athlete and author Wim Hof and speaks to the power of finding opportunity in tragedy. [Watch]
Directors Kelly Meador and Daniel Elwing reflect on the compounded mistakes inherent in a murder investigation to generate amorphous and atmospheric visuals for the five-part FX docu-series A Wilderness of Error. [Watch]
Psyop directors Igor + Valentine (aka designer/animators Matt Smithson and David Stanfield) steer Lincoln in a softer direction with this languid work produced thru agency Hudson Rouge and featuring the unmistakable voice of Matthew McConaughey. [Watch]
In her first commission since signing with Nexus Studios, recent NFTS animation graduate Neeraja Raj helms an ambitious 90-second spot driving home the fact one in 10 people do not have easy access to clean drinking water. [Watch]
The centerpiece of a massive new campaign for Nestlé’s mega coffee brand, this sweeping and intricately detailed video by CG masters FutureDeluxe thru agencies McCann and Hogarth introduces the Casa Nespresso as the House of Gifting. [Watch]
Our prediction for Super Bowl LV: tears will flow… thanks to this Toyota work from Radical Media’s Tarsem Singh and the Framestore VFX crew recounting the incredible journey of Jessica Long from orphan amputee to Paralympian swimming champion. [Watch]
Determined to fight virus fatigue with absurdist comedy, New York director/animator Dante Zaballa and Welsh artist Osian Efnisien (who also collaborated on Zabella’s Doodle Project II), release a “groundbreaking documentary that nobody asked for.” [Watch]
ECD Eric Lohman and the crew of animators and illustrators at The Furrow in Lexington, KY, partner with digital agency Grow to help Think With Google make an elegant and engaging case for “building fairness into your machine learning model.” [Watch]
