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February 4, 2025
Jumping confidently between animation techniques including stop-motion, UPA-influenced 2D, and golden age black and white, 2nd year CalArts student Mathieu Libman ruminates on life, love, and small blessings in disguise with “Pinky Toe.” [Watch]
You may be surprised to discover just how McGarryBowen London went about putting the monster back in Monster.com for this massive new multi-national campaign. [Watch]
If you caught Kibwe Tavares’ short film “Jonah”, you know his talent for story craft enhanced with magic realism VFX work is second to none. [Watch]
American feature film directing icon John Carpenter takes us back to a log cabin in Kentucky and unfolds a formative childhood memory in this wonderful film by Barcelona’s Device for the Primavera Sound festival. [Watch]
Cartoon Network’s Gumball and Darwin Watterson face nonstop peril and pandemonium in this skateboard sequence courtesy of London animator Simon Landrein (aka half of Passion directing duo McBess and Simon). [Watch]
Take a four-minute tour of the feature-quality work MPC put into Heineken “The Trailblazers,” probably the most ambitious 90 seconds of VFX-driven advertising you’ll see this year. [Watch]
An entertainment tradition for almost 900 years in Spain and Southern France, corridas or bullfighting now finds itself under increasing pressure to stop slaughtering 1,200-pound animals for sport. [Watch]
South Korean animator/illustrator Seoro Oh takes the head-nodding battle against ill-timed drowsiness we all know well to it’s logical extreme in his 2D graduation film “Afternoon Class” [Watch]
Regardless of their physical stature (or current political relevance), few characters in history provide the rich comedic potential of frustrated narcissist dictators. [Watch]
Moonbot directors Limbert Fabian and Brandon Oldenburg combine CG and a 30 x 40-foot practical model to create “Escape,” a five-minute animated brand film for Dolby “about the world-changing power of invention.” [Watch]
Dynamic camera work and visceral action from co-directors Ezequiel Torres and Pablo Roldán at Buenos Aires studio Rudo Company create a rush of 2D monochrome mania for Argentinian band SIAMES. [Watch]
Vancouver-based animator and creative director Jorge Rolando Canedo Estrada (aka Jr.canest) applies his signature brand of detailed-oriented key framing to a story about a fish, a professor, and the bible. [Watch]
Portuguese creative houses HomemBala and AIM Studios team up to make the case for the Love Matters initiative from Dutch NGO RNW Media, a program focused on the sexual health and rights of young people. [Watch]
It may look like it was hand painted by a mischievous Van Gogh in grade school but this new Motionpoem, by Method Studios for “Monsters” by Dorothea Lasky, hides a complex workflow beneath its lighthearted surface. [Watch]
