Laundry ECD/co-founder PJ Richardson takes a deep dive into AI art and animation in this visually opulent short film created for a digital art exhibition in Barcelona curated by OFFF founder Hector Ayuso. [Watch]
Taking inspiration from Joseph Kosinski’s 2013 sci-fi film Oblivion, the team at Singapore CG studio Nomo.Works tunes up their design and motion skills with two spec spots built around Alienware products. [Watch]
The potentially dry details of enterprise AI integration take on a playful and engaging tone in this illustration-based brand film from the design and motion crew at BUCK for data management and analytics platform Cloudera. [Watch]
Brooklyn boutique design and production company Coed Studios takes on the task of rebranding the state of Connecticut with this manifesto film, a thoroughly modern take on stop-motion animation produced thru CT agency Cronin. [Watch]
Taipei-based director/designer Audis Huang, who dropped this delightful event open for Acer last year, returns for more CG wonder – this time for another Taiwanese electronics brand, ASUS and their new VU Series monitors. [Watch]
Just when you thought the big budget holiday ad feels were done for the year, director Dan Marsh and Hornet swoop in with a painterly CG treatment for Air Canada about two tree ornaments who just want to spend Christmas together. [Watch]
The team at London CG studio Found re-imagine Ralph Lauren’s 888 Madison Avenue flagship store and its storied windows to frame oversized products rendered in obsessive detail for the brand’s holiday gifting global campaign. [Watch]
Motion designer/director João Vaz Oliveira teams with Lisbon animation house Dialogue to craft an atmospheric music video that transitions from 2D into 3D for “Blasphemy”, a track by Portuguese artists Moullinex and GPU Panic. [Watch]
The animation competition launched by Pink Floyd to mark the 50th anniversary of their landmark album The Dark Side of the Moon just got way more interesting with the posting of these two clips by German artist/animator TheInsaneum. [Watch]
Barcelona-based art director/designer Santi Zoraidez, who we first met thru his slick and whimsical film for Vitra, just dropped this quick blast of CG fun for the online dating app Hinge, acclaimed for its Nobel-Prize-winning matching algorithm. [Watch]
In their latest crazed cinematic for Supercell, Axis Studios and director Olly Reid drop what they call an “homage to the 90’s style hip-hop music video aesthetic” for the 2023 Clash of Clans Hammer Jam event. [Watch]
Enhancing 3D animation with AI, director Diogo Kalil and the LOBO crew opened the 2023 Ciclope Festival in Berlin with this trippy sequence the director describes as “an instigator piece that brings more questions than answers.” [Watch]
Culver City VFX studio JAMM bring their CG creature skills to this jaunty holiday spot for US smart TV brand VIZIO directed by Chris Balmond thru agency David&Goliath with Imaginary Forces crafting the new animated logo mnemonic. [Watch]
Continuing their work for the World Wildlife Fund, director Yannis Konstantinidis and the NOMINT animation team in London mix 3D-printed stop motion and live-action atmospherics into a haunting message about the climate crisis. [Watch]