Director Luiz Stockler in London: “Short piece [for US chemical maker Chemours] in collaboration with Ogilvy & Mather NYC for National Inventors Month commemorating the lesser known inventors of things we use each day.” [Watch]
Belgian designer/illustrator Robin Velghe and London director/animator Andy Baker convey all the lazy, smoky, fantasy-fueled heat required in the this new music video for “Lyk Dis” by NxWorries (Anderson.Paak & Knxwledge). [Watch]
In May 2016 Blizzard launched a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter called Overwatch with a series of groundbreaking CG trailers. Now, on the game’s second anniversary, Tracer and Reaper get the stop motion treatment. [Watch]
Creative Director Duncan Elms at Elastic in LA: “The series had six episodes with the themes, Alien life, Time Travel, Space Exploration, Dark Futures, Intelligent Machines, and Monsters. [Watch]
Blinkink director Nicos Livesey and The London Embroidery Studio transform 227,000 meters of thread into 600+ frames of animated tapestry in this formidable launch spot for the BBC’s coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup from Russia. [Watch]
Melbourne visual artist Alex Popescu, nudges the boundaries of filmmaking forward crafting this enigmatic music video for Seattle artist LEViT∆TE using realtime 3D rendering technology. [Watch]
“Darrel,” the animated black comedy short by Spanish co-directors Marc Briones and Alan Carabantes, chronicles the ill-fated flirtations of two luckless chameleons waiting for the subway. [Watch]
Discover the deeper meanings of young love, meatballs, and the danger of open flames at dinner in “Grandma’s Spaghetti,” a raving piece of CG madness directed Roy Nieterau and Danny Vos at Dutch 3D animation studio Colorbleed. [Watch]
In July 2010, Stash published an 11-minute spec pilot for a kids animated TV series called “Gluko & Lennon” and I remember thinking, “this is way too insane/genius to ever get a green light.” Fortunately, I was wrong. [Watch]
Arts & Sciences director Michael Illick gives pharma ads a much-deserved poke in this bonkers parody for POM Wonderful featuring a practical dolphin with digital VFX support from Carbon. [Watch]
London illustrator and animation director Joseph Melhuish: “VICE invited me to make three short films documenting stories from behind the scenes of some of their most notorious documentaries.” [Watch]
The 2018 Google I/O conference keynote opened with this immense yet lovable animated film that Nexus director Fx Goby describes as “a story about the power of a community working together to make good things.” [Watch]
Matt Greenwood, animator, motion designer, and creative director at Nice Shoes in Toronto on his new personal project debuted at Pictoplasma 2018: “I made Final_Final with no script or planning. Each day I picked up where I left off and it evolved into a cast of shiny characters.” [Watch]
Lobo director Mateus de Paula Santos illustrates the soul-sucking nature of our screen habit in this film for lilspace, an app that rewards users for unplugging. [Watch]