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February 4, 2025
The explosion of visual experimentation caused by the continued democratization of 3D animation and rendering tools is arguably the most exciting design trend of this decade. These seven projects demonstrate just how spectacular the results can be. [Watch]
Outside the music mainstream, a rich ecosystem of independent artists and filmmakers collaborate to create an array of fun and fresh visual surprises. Stash makes a point of hunting down and collecting the most intriguing of these. [Watch]
Setting the tone and creating anticipation for a live event, feature film, or television series is both an enormous responsibility and a cherished creative opportunity. Here’s seven title sequences that rose above and beyond in 2018. [Watch]
Madrid animation and VFX house The Frank Barton Company steps boldly into the CG holiday brand video competition with this carefully crafted heart-warmer for Audi thru DDB Spain. [Watch]
Japanese illustrator/animator Mozuya combines action, mystery, and the pain of a lost sibling in this dream-like CG watercolor world firmly anchored in anime traditions for the track “lost found melody” by Chroma. [Watch]
Chicago prodco Demo Duck donates their talents to bring an urban teen’s poem to life for 826CHI, a hometown non-profit creative writing, tutoring, and publishing center dedicated to amplifying the voices of the city’s youth. [Watch]
London branding studio Bold & Bold head up an emotional project for the UK Alzheimer’s Society designed to help those living with dementia communicate thoughts and ideas they may not be able to talk about openly. [Watch]
Starting with their beautiful brand film for the University of Melbourne in the fall of 2017, Tokyo studio Onesal has quickly made a name for themselves in the competitive high-end of artful CG abstraction. [Watch]
Written, directed, animated, and produced by Anomaly and Unreasonable Studios in London, “O Human Being” tells the tragic tale of Peter, an unlucky human voiced by Richard E. Grant, as the full extent of his Christmas nightmare unfolds. [Watch]
Poker night at the North Pole takes an unexpected turn for Santa in this jolly dark comedy from Passion Animation directing collective MegaComputeur. [Watch]
Director Leigh Whannell’s new sci-fi feature “Upgrade” opens with the first title sequence since François Truffaut’s “Farenheit 451” (1966) to replace all text with VO. The result is both engaging and unsettling. [Watch]
“Metro Exodus,” the third installment in 4A Games’ Metro video game series will release in February 2019 and open with this chilling title sequence sculpted by CD Andy Hall and the Elastic crew. [Watch]
To celebrate their 10th anniversary, Australian animation studio Dirty Puppet conjure a delightful collaboration of staff and friends built on “10 steps, ingredients, and habits that go into baking a cake.” [Watch]
Snappy, vibrant, and insightful explainer for YORA, a new sustainable pet food company based in the UK, by London director/animator Yukai Du via Bliink and Junction Studio. [Watch]
