London studio Form Films and freelance director/animator/designer Mike Drayton combine talents (and make their Stash debuts) with this pristine and elemental brand film for boutique jewelry designer William Cheshire. [Watch]
Vitor Cervi, a design and animation director based in London, just dropped us his personal short film Carcass, a glitchy mashup of street photography/scanning, collage, and 3D animation commenting on capitalism and the metaverse. [Watch]
Paris studio Unit Motion Design conjures a series of dark and dramatic dioramas in this sweeping intro cinematic for the “Into the Light” expansion of Destiny 2, Bungie’s hit free-to-play online first-person shooter. [Watch]
London-based freelance AD/designer/animator Romain Loubersanes imparts a spirited and playful tone to the 2024 Motion Motion Festival in Nantes, France, with this tightly choreographed typographic trailer. [Watch]
New short films from director Eoin Duffy are always a treat and his latest, the emotionally complex adventure Regular Rabbit, finds his signature mix of minimalist characters and surreal narrative posing the big question, “What is truth?” [Watch]
Leaning away from the stark beauty of the ongoing CG luxury watch wars, the motion team at FutureDeluxe frames the mechanical precision of Hublot’s Unico movement in time-warped and fashion-forward live-action. [Watch]
Frankfurt design/animation studio Styleframe (whose talents for crafting intimate and tactile brand films you can see here) continue to create intrigue and desire with their latest, a product launch video for AI startup rabbit. [Watch]
The loss of a beloved pet can be devastating but when co-founders Betsy de Fries and Jerry van de Beek at Little Fluffy Clouds recently lost their family dog, they chose to channel their emotions into this meditative 2D short film. [Watch]
AIM Studios apply their ample talents for narrative clarity and warmly illustrative visuals to an engaging literary journey for Rakuten Kobo, the Canadian ebook/e-reader brand thru Toronto agency The Garden. [Watch]
Elastic CD Duncan Elms, whose design and motion talents we keep tabs on here, sets an optimistic tone for A Brief History Of The Future, the new PBS doc series exploring “how re-thinking tomorrow can bring long-term change”. [Watch]
Melbourne animation director and illustrator Kate Isobel Scott’s ambitious stop-motion epic has earned a place in pop culture history as the official music video for one of the most-played songs of all time, Pink Floyd’s “Money”. [Watch]
In this curious and enigmatic video for “Silk Sheets” by DJ/producer Eben Tenner, German director Michael Fragstein tempers the endless possibilities of AI with a carefully curated mix of stop-motion and collage techniques. [Watch]
The team at London studio Art&Graft just dropped us the trailer for their latest in-house short film In Pursuit of Magic, an intriguing mix of 2D and 3D characters and techniques underscored with a sense mystery by Zelig Sound. [Watch]
Launched in 2016 by animator/CDs Martin Dasnoy and Dalmiro Buigues, Buenos Aires studio Buda.tv celebrates eight years with an anthem film stating the creative importance of anatomical intelligence in the age of artificial intelligence. [Watch]