Wise words, austere visuals, and heart-felt narration conjure a surprisingly complex array of emotions in Eli Guillou’s film “The Light in the Dark” created during his senior year at SCAD. [Watch]
Since the launch of The Gorburger Show on Comedy Central in April 2017, partners John Cranston and Ryan McNeely and their crew at Los Angeles creative house Visual Creatures have slathered the erratic talk/variety show in a delightful array of cheeseball-flavored maximalist graphics. [Watch]
Wei-Shen Wang, a Taiwanese illustrator/motion designer, created his beguiling thesis film “Dreaming” for the Master of Fine Arts in Motion Media Design program at Savannah College of Art and Design. [Watch]
Prettybird director Rami Hachache, Paris CG and VFX studio Mathematic, and Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA elevate CAA’s SAVOR.WAVS campaign for Chipotle with a nice mix of style and wit. [Watch]
Ben Smith, ECD and director at The Mill in New York, chronicles the merging of matter and madness after a physicist working with the Large Hadron Collider makes a shocking discovery. [Watch]
Naghmeh Farzaneh, an Iranian filmmaker and animator based in Chicago, captures the overwhelming emotion and surprising details involved in her immigration to the US in this starkly rendered and deeply personal film. [Watch]
Succulent and surreal CG work from Electric Theatre Collective elevates director Pete Candeland’s new work for Finlandia Vodka above and beyond the call for Wieden+Kennedy. [Watch]
Barcelona art and design duo Six N. Five (aka Andy Reisinger and Ezequiel Pini) bring their pristine but playful aesthetic to this series of six clips for a SPACE10 pop-up exhibit in London “exploring the spaces of tomorrow.” [Watch]
In the start of a global love-fest between Oreo and Google, the newest version of the Android operating system will be named after the world’s most recognizable cookie – complete with an Android Oreo superhero. [Watch]
In September 1841 America’s first state fair was held in Syracuse, New York. This fall the Great New York State Fair will host over a million visitors with the help of this promo from Not To Scale director Elliot Lim. [Watch]
Moscow production and VFX house Revolution Studio tease an unnamed new project with the release of this stunning all-CG clip of Japanese red crown cranes dancing in a verdant bamboo forest. [Watch]
Taiwan web and motion designer Yoshiki Lai ups the interest level for mobile phone brand films with this intricate and elegant all-CG clip for the ASUS Zenfone 4. [Watch]
To emphasize the fact Shiseido’s new WASO skincare range “harnesses the power of Japanese food and botanicals,” Dvein teamed with botanists, robot makers, and London CG mavens Analog to create this striking garden installation. [Watch]
Dvein and Paris VFX masters Mikros Image add a golden touch to models Sophia Ahrens and Jordan Barrett in this kinetic spot for Paco Rabanne’s 1 Million and Lady Million fragrances shot by the one and only Darius Khondji (Se7en, Panic Room). [Watch]