A personal project 18 months in the making, Morgan Powell’s short film “Bubble” was originally inspired by the anxiety of a family medical prognosis but evolved over the course of production into something greater, and happier. [Watch]
StrangeBeast director/animator Laura Jayne Hodkin brings a cast of eccentric characters and her unmistakable style to the anchor video of a new campaign for UK mobile operator giffgaff thru London agency Don’t Panic. [Watch]
Joyrider director Reuben Sutherland combines analog and digital animation techniques to push the concept of low-res to the breaking point in this frenetic yet mesmerizing video for German electronic duo Ducks!. [Watch]
As part of the rebrand of their lifestyle and entertainment free-to-air channels, Discovery UK’s in-house creative agency teamed with London design/animation studio Ink and Giants to create this standout series of CG Idents. [Watch]
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]