Director Laura Sirvent Joins Jelly Roster
March 5, 2025
Music video directing legend Marc Klasfeld (who just signed with Cavalry Productions for commercials) unveils a giddy, guilty pleasure for the AWOLNATION track “Woman Woman,” calling the video a hymn to all women, “We didn’t add any make-up, we didn’t use any big styling elements, obviously we didn’t use any clothes.”
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1stAveMachine pulls together legendary character designer Wilfrid Wood and London animation studio Red Knuckles to help FCB Inferno London and mega-publisher Pearson focus attention on how many of the planet’s biggest problems stem from the fact three-quarters of a billion humans cannot read or write. [Watch]
Written, directed and animated by Brazilian CG talent André Holzmeister, “Malak and the Boat” is the first in a new animated series sponsored by UNICEF thru agency 180LA called Unfairy Tales designed to highlight the trauma suffered by the youngest victims of the Syrian refugee crisis. [Watch]
Mr Binns (aka London animation director and designer Daniel Binns and a director at Bristol studio Arthur Cox) uses a complex palette and simplified character design to conjure a powerful mix of melancholy and hopefulness in this animated short from a series of interview-based films on post natal depression. [Watch]
London designer, visual artist and filmmaker Fabrice Le Nezet says his new animated 3D short film “Pump” (with music by Paris electro artist Azel Phara) started as a typographic research project inspired by primitive alphabets. [Watch]
Peter Frankfurt and the Imaginary Forces crew capture the Zeitgeist of 1970s New York for the titles of HBO’s new music business drama “Vinyl” with a visceral interpretation of the sex, drugs, fashion, hedonism and chaos that defined the dawn of punk, disco, and hip-hop. [Watch]
No matter how complex or fragile you believe this planet to be, this data visualization from Dr. Mauro Martino at Harvard and Jianxi Gao at Northeastern University (based on a recent paper published in Nature called “Universal Resilience Patterns in Complex Networks”) will redefine your appreciation for both. [Watch]
While many odds makers forecast Mr. DiCaprio finally taking home the Best Actor Oscar this year, London animation collective The line leave Leo’s quest for golden hardware in your hands via their new game “Leo’s Red Carpet Rampage.” [Watch]
If you’re a fan of the strange and grotesque ala Argento, Lynch, Cronenberg and Cunningham or even Sir Francis Bacon, you’ll get a jolt or two from this music video for Italian electro-duo Optogram from Milan director Rino Stefano Tagliafierro. [Watch]
Sweeping and spectacular CG environments frame a man’s descent and return in this short called “A Drop” from Julien Vanhoenacker, a director and VFX artist working at The Post Bangkok in Thailand. [Watch]
The 2016 reboot of Powerpuff Girls lands on Cartoon Network in April but thanks to London prodco Golden Wolf and Seattle surf pop quartet Tacocat, you can grab a taste of all the fun right here. [Watch]
JP Rooney, aka the Gentleman Scholar associate creative director with the ex-racing greyhound named Ghostface, channels his inner bonbon with this 3D Valentines confection full of snappy character animation. [Watch]
ECD Ryan Honey and the Buck crew re-team with illustrator Tomi Um for their second Casper animation, upping the flag-waving squirrel from the first spot to a mystical and diminutive Sannyasa spokes-creature. [Watch]
Back in March, 2009 former motion masters Superfad were at the peak of their powers, a rare mix of brains, fun and style seldom seen since. Released in time for Valentines that year, Durex “Get it On” was helmed by CD Rob Rugan and featured proudly on the cover of Stash 54. [Watch]
