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February 4, 2025
Julian Ticona Cuba, one half of the German creative team known as Noise (with Daniel Bartels) weaves sombre and mysterious visuals with the hypnotic poetry of UK wordsmith Johnny BANG Reilly in this director’s cut of “Nightfall” for Universal Music. [Watch]
Check this frenetic animated blast of dark humor called “Mr. Anxiety Goes on a Date,” an over-caffeinated interior monologue completed in one day by 4inaroom, aka Alyona Ciobanu, Anna Florea, The Sandul, and Serban Ilicevici. [Watch]
Paris director/animator Hugo Ramirez unleashes a visceral roto-nightmare he calls “black ink animation insanity” for Yann Kornowicz’s track “The Chase in the Ghost Train” thru Paris prodco Eddy. [Watch]
US designer/director Matt Smithson warms up the revolutionary (and somewhat scary) breakthroughs in mind reading technology with eccentric, light-hearted visuals for the Future of Storytelling speaker Marvin Chun, the Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology at Yale. [Watch]
Zombie Studio in São Paulo, Brazil make a brazen grab for your heartstrings in this promo for the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival (NYC, October 17-24) with a mix of utopian and tragic imagery powered by the drama of the Les Misérables track “I Dreamed a Dream.” [Watch]
Join Pixar animators Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj for a look into how they challenged current expectations of animation with their CG short film “Borrowed Time,” an emotional sledgehammer with music by Gustavo Santaolalla (“Brokeback Mountain,” “Babel”) and awarded Best in Show at SIGGRAPH 2016. [Watch]
Check the STYLE FRAMES speakers, check their presentations and panels, then use code SFSTASH to save 10% on your tickets. [Watch]
The French word poilus (hairy one) is a term of endearment for a French WWI infantryman and provides the title for this emotional, atmospheric and ambitious graduation film created by seven students at ISART DIGITAL, the Paris-based video game and 3D animation school. [Watch]
Animade animator Stew Harvey – the talent behind this warm and cozy Valentine Day film – returns with a quick blast of existential fun. [Watch]
Young SoCal animator/director Victoria Vincent follows up “Find true Love,” her one-minute animated ode to the pitfalls of online dating with “Fluffy’s Third Eye,” an equally off-balance allegory on the perqs and perils of getting what you wish for. [Watch]
Buckle up. French VFX vet Pierre Michel-Estival (who is now based in LA and repped by Digital Domain) just released “Prayer 9,” his spectacular short film and feature film proof of concept “set in the near future where reality is obsolete.” [Watch]
Nexus director Fx Goby animates stencil graffiti to raise awareness of the 80,000 young people in the UK who find themselves in dire circumstances both at home or on the streets in this stark and powerful online film for UK charity End Youth Homelessness. [Watch]
Join Roof Studio directors Guto Terni, Vinicius Costa, and Sam Mason on this lysergic jog through the tropical Costa Rican countryside in search of Australian electro duo Empire of the Sun performing their 80’s-flavored track “High and Low.” [Watch]
Game developers rely on just a handful of studios to create AAA game trailers and cinematics but the list narrows further when you need to add comedy and character to your action. This trailer for Trion Worlds’ new team tactics game Atlas Reactor relies on director Jeff Fowler and the Blur Studio team to do just that.
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