Redefining Dark Comedy in a “Chocolate World”

Death and dismemberment don’t rank high on the list of confectionery ad strategies but in the hands of Wieden+Kennedy São Paulo and the animation crew at LOBO, the macabre melts into the ridiculous and that is a welcome thing. [Watch]

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Yes, “We Need More Flowers”

Director Lisette Donkersloot at prodco Since ’88 in Amsterdam crafts a whirlwind celebration of “the wonderful, magical and incredibly diverse effects that flowers have on people” for the Flower Council of Holland. [Watch]

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TATRAN “White Lies” Music Video by Shahaf Ram

Tel Aviv director/animator Shahaf Ram focuses a formative childhood experience on the tennis court into a dream-like video for Isreali trio TATRAN, mixing references from Disney and Banksy to the KKK and a gender-fluid Hitler along the way. [Watch]

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Strange Beast VOW “To End Child Marriage”

A string of diverse and upbeat animation clips from Strange Beast directors and collaborators help get the word out about VOW and the charity’s quest to end child marriage. [Watch]

Framestore Crew “Go Further” for Funding Circle

Partizan director Antoine Bardou-Jacquet and the Framestore VFX crew in London create a mad 60-second rush of coin-operated wonder for UK business lender Funding Circle. [Watch]

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Buster + Punch “Switch” by weareseventeen

UK interiors brand Buster + Punch sell starkly beautiful products (from drawer pulls to motorcycles) and now they have a full CG promo film to match, courtesy of London creative force weareseventeen. [Watch]

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GWR “Five & The Missing Jewels” by Pete Candeland

Friends Electric director Pete Candeland and the animation crew at parent studio Electric Theatre Collective continue the railway-bound adventures of the Famous Five in a 2D/3D romp around England and Wales. [Watch]

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Following “Nature’s Thread” for Mountain Men

LA prodco/design house Roger and the CG crew at Lunar Animation in the UK weave together an obsessively detailed CG promo for History Channel’s “Mountain Men.” [Watch]

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Honda “Where Different Takes You” by Time Based Arts

Directors Mike Skrgatica and James Allen at London post/VFX shop Times Based Arts hit the Stash radar hard in summer 2017 with their “Dream Makers” spot for Honda. Now they’re back with this typographic tryst for the Civic. [Watch]

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NaturNes “First Family” by Studio AKA

Turns out life was pretty sweet for kids in the stone age according to this new animated charmer from Studio AKA directors Manddy Wyckens and Marc Craste thru BBH for the launch of natural baby food brand NaturNes. [Watch]

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Changing Directions: OPPO “Find X” Spot by Somei

Shanghai director/designer Somei continues pushing OPPO’s phone spots into unexpected (and welcome) new territory with this sci-fi-flavored CG opus for the company’s latest flagship model the Find X. [Watch]

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Sweet A$AP Rocky Pitch Plus Three More by Radio

Check this wonderfully fluid animated looping pitch work for a recent A$AP Rocky music video plus three more recent clips in a variety of styles from Radio, a production company with studios in London and Cape Town. [Watch]

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“Think 2050: Fiction to Action” by Daihei Shibata

The increasing complexity of falling domino formations create a riveting metaphor for the problems and promise of Japans’s aging population in this all-CG spot by WOW director Daihei Shibata for the country’s Ministry of Economy. [Watch]

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Welcome to Gung-Kai Koo’s “Number Who”

New York designer, animator, and illustrator Gung-Kai Koo takes a whimsical look at the “many interesting shapes formed while we’re posing in our daily life – shapes like numbers.” [Watch]