The twisted tale of how the new Foo Fighters album “Concrete and Gold” came to be – as told by Dave Grohl and enhanced by the animation talents at Visual Creatures in LA. [Watch]
Blinkink director Alex Grigg wraps the heartfelt words of Interscope executive Steve Stout in a stark and restrained power in this promo for the Biography Channel documentary ‘Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G’. [Watch]
New animated treat from Edinburgh’s very own Romanian-born director/designer Andrei Staruiala who brought us the various charms of “Scottish Sayings” earlier this year. [Watch]
Emmanuel Lubezki, the only cinematographer to win three consecutive Oscars (Gravity 2013, Birdman 2014, The Revenant 2015) directs a visual stunner for Absolut with Framestore handling post and VFX. [Watch]
David Droga, creative influencer and founder of agency Droga5 suggests, “We really have to think about why the consumer would give a shit about what we do” in this promo for FoST 2017 by Dress Code. [Watch]
A BNP Paribas ATM handles requests from a trio of characters borrowed from the Valerian universe in these spots directed by Luc Besson himself with wonderful animation work by Mikros Image in Paris. [Watch]
Deli Collective and Greenpeace Magazine use dark musical comedy to motivate their fellow Germans to vote for environmental change during the country’s federal election on September 24, 2017. [Watch]
French motion designer Niels Prayer honors Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievitch with an understated but powerful spec title sequence for Pol Cruchten’s 2016 documentary based on her book Voices of Chernobyl. [Watch]
Meet Douglas Eck, a research scientist on Google Brain’s Magenta project teaching computers how to generate their own music, video, images, and text using neural networks and other types of machine learning. [Watch]
Polished classical animation, gentle conflict, and a heart-tugging life lesson separate “Burn Out” from the pack of student films we’ve seen in 2017 and establish Gobelins grad Cécile Carre as a talent to watch. [Watch]
Paris studio Mathematic provide post support as a young heroine (French actress and musician Solene Rigot) rescues her friend from teenage debauchery in the video for Beck’s new single “Up All Night.” [Watch]
Creative producer Rebecca Rice at Mathematic in Paris: “NYCB contacted us to create a unique promo for their production of Swan Lake. The film shows the transformation of the white swan to black through light and the two crowns. [Watch]
Sometimes the making-of film is just as entertaining as the actual film (and sometimes more). Join Anthony Falleroni as he reveals the process behind “Jumpy,” his story of a lovable game avatar who refuses to give up. [Watch]
Alexa Sirbu and Lukas Vojir who both work as motion artists at ManvsMachine in London, team up for a dark and intimate exploration of floral forms in their new personal art film called “flow/er.” [Watch]