The Forward Festival returns to Berlin’s HKW venue with a lineup of more than 40 international top creatives from a variety of fields including digital art, motion and graphic design, typography, photography and much more. [Watch]
Founded in 1862, venerable French perfume brand Roger & Gallet looks anything but its age in this series of effervescent new spots from Clim Studio in Barcelona crafted to “exude joy and sophistication”. [Watch]
Teaming with Toronto agency FUSE Create, the crew at Barcelona’s Trizz Studio whip up a swirling elixir of CG gooiness showcasing the ingredients (honey, caramel, and Swiss herbs) that go into Ricola Throat Balm lozenges. [Watch]
Following on the quirky charm of his 2023 short film Ripe, Noodle founder/CD Doug Alberts just dropped us his latest motion experiment called Origin, a snappy meditation on perspective and the boundary between 2D and 3D. [Watch]
In their trailer for the 2024 edition of Motion Plus Design Tokyo, founder/director Keyvan Nourian and his crew at Studio River in Paris use CG to build an abstract take on the question of the moment: How will AI change the creative profession? [Watch]
Director Louve Karnas and the animation crew at The Line in London smash together an array of 2D and 3D techniques for a full-on neural assault in this hyper-action trailer for Uncapped Games’ premiere release Battle Aces. [Watch]
Revolver director Jeff Low teams with stop-motion maven Tobias Fouracre (Isle of Dogs, Fantastic Mr Fox) on 26 mini-episodes of low-key comedy for Australian teleco Telstra thru agencies Bear Meets Eagle On Fire and +61. [Watch]
The New York Section of the Visual Effects Society (VES), the industry’s professional global honorary society, will honor Vico Sharaban and Dr. Russ Andersson at the 10th Annual VES NY Awards June 27. [Watch]
London VFX masters Electric Theatre Collective and Partizan director Antoine Bardou-Jacquet (whose last collab was this mini-superhero romp for Coke) re-team for more world-building fun in a pair of spots for Audible thru agency Fold7. [Watch]
The ongoing creative exploits of Tendril’s design team for Swiss watchmaker Hublot reach a new level of complexity in this launch film, merging live action and CG into a stream of style around the Arsham Droplet pocket watch. [Watch]
London digital design studio Dada Projects, whose 2023 brand film for PROWL we covered here, nudges forward the motion canon visualizing AI for Google’s DeepMind with this intriguing assembly of CG forms. [Watch]
South Korean 3D artist Kyungrae Yu takes Stash fans into the process behind his new short film, an atmospheric and unapologetic ode to the style and enduring emotional power of vehicles powered by internal combustion engines. [Watch]
New branding from the London office of design agency Turner Duckworth for UK craft beer maker Vocation Brewery comes to vivid life in this film, seamlessly mixing typography, cel animation, 2D motion, and CG product renders. [Watch]
CD Fabrice Le Nezet and the team at Optical Arts in London just shared their new short film for pioneering Dutch textile brand BYBORRE which they describe as “a poetic ode to the power and beauty of patience in an age of instant gratification”. [Watch]