Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
In one of the most surprising (and striking) collaborations of 2020, Encyclopedia Pictura director Isaiah Saxon conjures a magical and melancholy tale for Adult Swim anchored on music from Brooklyn indie rock band Dirty Projectors. [Watch]
Director Paul Shtyler and the design/animation crew at playd®team in Moscow update the image of venerable German electronics brand LOEWE with this CG brand film introducing a new collection of televisions and smart speakers. [Watch]
London director/illustrator/animator Pencil Bandit applies his skills for creating what he calls “goofy and candy-colored” characters to a pair of spots for new UK SIM-only mobile network SMARTY. [Watch]
Studio AKA director Manddy Wyckens elevates the cross-mountain adventures of ultra trail running couple Katie Schide and Germain Grangier to mythical status with sweeping and stylized animated sequences for Swiss sporting goods company ON. [Watch]
Hornet Director Peter Sluszka leads his stop-motion team into a surreal and emotional world of hand-made wonder to emphasize the importance of imagination as a motivational force when faced with terminal illness. [Watch]
Damon Lindelof, aka A-list screenwriter and multi-Emmy-winning creator/showrunner of HBO’s adaptation of Watchmen, details the origin of his love of comic books with animated help from director Ivan Dixon and the crew at Studio Showoff in Melbourne. [Watch]
Directors Henrique Bueno and Two Lost Kids at Brazilian prodco The Youth whip together multiple facets of Japanese pop culture into a frothy concoction for the national launch of Wasabi flavored Doritos. [Watch]
São Paulo’s Zombie Studio continues their commitment to helping wildlife and environmental causes with their latest work for WWF – an animated appeal to help save pangolins, the mammal most threatened by wildlife trafficking. [Watch]
Blinkink director Alex Grigg says he’s “always wondered what goes on inside a kid’s mind when they taste something delicious for the first time.” He got the chance to explore just that in this spot for Nestle’s NaturNes line of baby food. [Watch]
Passion directors MegaComputeur, best known for their sharp comedic work, steer a more serious course here creating a marine metaphor for the disorientation and fear that Alzheimer’s can cause patients and their families. [Watch]
Directors Saman Kesh and Justin Daashuur Hopkins tap into all the pent up schadenfreude you feel for internet trolls in this breakout music video for Makeup & Vanity Set (aka Nashville electronic producer Matthew Pusti). [Watch]
The Stash Permanent Collection continues to expand with STASH 143 adding another 31 outstanding motion projects plus behind the scenes features and exclusive interviews. Check the two-minute preview to see the new inductees. [Watch]
The Adult Swim Smalls series of short films continue to generate smiles with off-kilter motion experiments like this low-key comic treat from director/animator Michael Marczewski in London. [Watch]
Instead of cutting together the usual demo reel, French motion house Studio River introduced themselves as sponsors of the most recent Motion Plus Design event in Paris with this refreshing mock manifesto. [Watch]
