Not To Scale and Talk Shop Announce East Coast Partnership
September 16, 2025
Working to a witty track by Tin Sounds (aka the songwriters for the Hey Duggee series), London-based animation director Joseph Clark and his Oh Studio crew transform a household chore into something joyful for IKEA UK. [Watch]
The Forward Festival 2025 opened last week in Berlin with this wonderfully austere exercise in tension and release from the crew at Found in London that “celebrates the blank page, a space both daunting and full of potential.” [Watch]
Directors Jan Xavier and Victor Tchaba at São Paulo animation studio Histeria! lead a crew of 60 artists and animators on a rampage to promo the Valorant Champions Tour Americas Playoffs with this “Pixel Perfect” music video. [Watch]
Nerdo director Daniele Gavatorta musters half a dozen artists and animators to build out a passionate manifesto film about the benefits of freeing your feet for UK footwear brand Vivobarefoot thru agency Thingy&Thingy. [Watch]
It may only be 15 seconds long but this latest work from Redot Studio in Paris for Puma’s Ultra 6 football boots packs enough energy and visual gymnastics to demand repeat viewings and frame by frame scrutiny. [Watch]
The Motion Plus Design creative conference lands in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 27 with an inspiring line-up of speakers including Danaé Gosset, Ash Thorp, Haram Jung, Nahuel Salcedo, Doyoung Kwon, Curry Tian, and Takayuki Sato. [Watch]
You are forgiven in advance for thinking the product shots in this film are live action (as I did), because the fluid simulations stirred up by the team at PROPER for AG1’s health supplement powders are just that good. [Watch]
California studio Stylo Creative, who broke Prada earlier this summer with this radical spec spot, heads to the golf course and leans into the molecular-level innovations of Mizuno’s forged wedge clubs. [Watch]
The 16th season (!) of The Great British Bake Off returns to Channel 4 with this showstopping trailer lead by Blinkink director Isabel Garrett who deploys a full range of food-based animation including stop-motion icing sugar. [Watch]
Toronto branding boutique Vucko continues their creative collaboration with Google Cloud’s Next conference with this kinetic and boldly joyful campaign which included a sweeping array of applications from social to the Las Vegas Sphere. [Watch]
The animation team at Gimmick Studio in Montreal strike a careful balance between dark humor and harsh reality in this series of films about the perils of gang life for the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team thru TBWA\Canada. [Watch]
In 2016, German DIY-store Hornbach released this piece of joyful chaos and hammered home their goal to blur the line between advertising and entertainment. Their latest is a masterwork of theatrical dramedy. [Watch]
Flatwhite Motion, who recently dropped this effervescent Vivo spot, merges the contrasting worlds of luxury auto maker Aston Martin with miHoYo’s action RPG Zenless Zone Zero, in this fast and furious work for a crossover event. [Watch]
In complete contrast to his geometric CG BODIES titles for Netflix, Studio AKA director Marcus Armitage sketches a tactile hand-drawn open for Eyes of Wakanda, the animated anthology miniseries streaming on Disney +. [Watch]
