Biscuit Filmworks Signs Director/Animator Florence Poppy Deary for Commercial Representation
April 16, 2025
Art director and 3D animator Jake Wegesin, whose 2019 short Next Flight Home warmed hearts in Stash 136, just dropped us his latest film – inspired by an unexpected custom in his new hometown of Copenhagen, Denmark. [Watch]
The frog character introduced in e-bike maker VanMoof’s last spot (a cool CG number from The Mill) steers a completely different course in new work by London illustrator Jim Stoten and Cape Town animation studio Bewilder. [Watch]
One of the most visually and technically innovative student films you will see this year, Cassie Shao’s USC grad film “There Were Four of Us” was originally inspired by a dream then gained added dimensions with the death of her grandfather. [Watch]
A new must-see touring exhibition documenting the collaboration of David Bowie and English photographer Brian Duffy over five albums from 1972 to 1980 becomes all the more intriguing with this promo by Scottish motion director Chris Bain. [Watch]
Working thru Toronto motion house IAMSTATIC, animation director Matt Kalinauskas brings a soft and comfortable look to this feel-good spot for TFO’s Idello, a Francophone educational learning platform for Ontario’s teachers and students. [Watch]
Directors Vidya Sharma and Rajesh Thomas (aka Rocketscience Lab) working thru Lucifer Circus in Mumbai infuse this spot for Amazon India with an aura of magic realism by teaming with the miniatures and VFX teams at Thunder Studios. [Watch]
The Passion Pictures crew, lead by director Jon Saunders, draws inspiration from anime while pushing past the genre’s limits in this atmospheric and action-packed new trailer for Garena’s online battle royale game Free Fire. [Watch]
Vancouver animation studio Linetest craft a prismatic mix of 2D and 3D styles to illustrate the growing impact of ocean noise pollution on the bowhead whale population for the WWF Arctic Programme in Canada. [Watch]
Bristol’s own master of ruff-house animation Russ Murphy continues his quest for hand-drawn nirvana in this latest collaboration with US musicians/producers Ross Harris and Frank Leone – a fun and infectious track called “Shoulder Wire”. [Watch]
Your lizard brain, a part of the limbic system processing our most primal emotions, wakes up and takes over in this happy rant from Private Island director Chris Boyle for financial app Yolt thru Uncommon Creative Studio. [Watch]
Winner of a Student Academy Award in 2020, Pascal Schelbli’s graduation film The Beauty mixes live-action underwater footage with innovative VFX for an intriguing take on the problem of ocean plastic. [Watch]
The abstracted reconstruction of a Buddha stands as an apt metaphor for the soothing powers of a spa in Vilnius, Lithuania, during this tranquil video by Rimantas Lukavicius and the crew at Korb. [Watch]
Music video and game trailer blend into a dramatic and dream-fueled six-minute epic in this new work from Moscow studios Petrick and Zheeshee for Russian singer Zemfira and starring Austin, the balding butler from Homescapes. [Watch]
London studio Panoply just released the latest in their ongoing series of Curiosities and like the previous films, it showcases the studio’s talents for meticulous rendering and an obsession with both detail and innovation. [Watch]
