Meet the Monsters of Toyota’s “Drive Happy Project”

Australian visual effects and post shop Alt.VFX show off their CG creature craft in this spot for Toyota New Zealand featuring furry manifestations of the top five frustrations facing new car buyers. [Watch]

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Putting the “Mother” into Mother’s Day

Turns out the Arabic word for parenthood (pronounced “Al Obuwah”) translates as “fatherhood.” So in the spirit of acknowledging mom’s role, Middle East retailer Babyshop and their agency FP7/DXB created a new Arabic word: Al Umobuwah. [Watch]

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On Track with Fabien Meyran’s “Macroliebe”

Painstaking detail and careful rendering elevate this sweet CG film about the courtship and reunion of two model trains created by Fabien Meyran during his fourth year at French animation school Supinfocom Rubika. [Watch]

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Explaining the Health Benefits of Cannabis

The first in a series of explainers from Amsterdam creative collective Hello Savants for Eatruscan, an Italian agricultural initiative focused on the processing of cannabis derivatives for the food and pharmaceutical markets. [Watch]

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Superestudio Rebrands TFX

Ezequiel Rormoser, creative director at Superestudio in Buenos Aires: “This is a sizzle reel gathering 20 IDs we did for the TFX rebrand, a channel for French millennials. [Watch]

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Time Based Arts Unleash “Engineered Insanity” for F1

Final Cut editor Ben Stephens demonstrates the power of his craft to spike your heart rate in this spot for Formula 1 racing directed by Chris Boyle and amplified by VFX and post work from Time Based Arts in London. [Watch]

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Clearing the Smoke for Road Safety

Just in case you planned to spark up that joint before hitting the road this weekend, Quad director Bruno Aveillan and French post house Fix Studio have a message for you. [Watch]

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Behind the Scenes on ACV “Dummy”

Berlin animation/VFX house dondon nudge the crash-test dummy genre forward by motion-capturing the actor’s finest details then hand-crafting facial tweaks in this charmer directed by Josh Dawson for German automobile club ACV. [Watch]

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Ditroit and Diesel “Say No to Uncool Wool”

This impossible-to-ignore all-CG brand film was created by Milan/London motion studio Ditroit and ran in store windows as part of Diesel’s “Say no to uncool wool” campaign. [Watch]

Spike Channel IDs by Alkanoids

Alkanoids, the Milan design studio who opened PromaxBDA Rome a few weeks ago, is back with a series of fun Popsicle-colored IDs for Spike Italy – plus the only making-of video I’ve ever seen cut to a Rammstein track. [Watch]

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MPC Helps Apple “Unlock” High School

Time to put aside the privacy vs convenience argument for 60 seconds and just enjoy MPC’s flurry of VFX work on Dougal Wilson’s spot for Apple’s FaceID feature which uses facial recognition to unlock the iPhone X. [Watch]

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Face to Face with “Face Face”

“Face Face,” the frenetic and fabulous new animated short from Titmouse takes us to the year 372054 and asks what might it be like to pilot a spaceship grown from your own DNA. [Watch]

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Kingston School of Art Asks “What is Creativity?”

Fifteen alumni from Kingston School of Art in London explore the idea of creativity and how to define it in this playful promo for their alma mater produced by Buff Motion thru design agency Bond & Coyne. [Watch]

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Offset 2018 Title Sequence by MPC

Working independent of each other, six creative directors from various MPC offices around the globe tackle the main title sequence of Offset in Dublin, ambitious typography ensues. [Watch]