Toonami, Adult Swim’s Japanese animation programming block gets a quick kick in the branding with this crazed 20-second mix of 3D and 2D character animation from the teams at Zeppelin and Apus Studios in Lima, Peru. [Watch]
Third year students Joséphine Vendeville, Clémence Bellet, Florian Lecocq, Célia Leblois, and Charlie Bossuyt at French digital arts school Piktura (formerly Pôle 3D) craft a culinary world tour in their short film “180°C”. [Watch]
Designer/director Zachary Corzine and the crew at Creative Studio just dropped us their resplendent new brand film for Bitkey, the self-custody Bitcoin wallet developed by Block Inc., the company behind Square and Cash App. [Watch]
London’s Territory Studio delivers plenty of elemental drama in this 90-second film announcing the launch of Jar of Sparks, the new game development studio founded by Xbox pioneer Jerry Hook and Chinese internet giant NetEase. [Watch]
Working with Brighton design and branding firm Studio Makgill, character animation specialists Form Play convey the joyfulness and well-being at the center of UK student accommodation brand Joint Living. [Watch]
Paris-based art director Dmitry Cherenkov captures a sense of warmth and thoughtful design across both day and night in this tranquil and abstracted CG brand film for Ukraine-based construction company Enki. [Watch]
LA-based directing twins, Adam and Nathan Freise team with veteran art director Ren Chen for a golf shoe glitch-fest in this 30-second blast of CG Style for adidas and their Codechaos Laceless Primeknit Boost. [Watch]
The art and craft of VFX never really gets the recognition it deserves. First, because the work is often meant to be undetectable and second, many still believe “it’s all done by computers.” Hopefully, this compilation helps right those wrongs. [Watch]
Deploying a bespoke Stable Diffusion toolkit, artist/director/coder Vadim Epstein’s latest AI experiment generates a short film full of surreal characters shifting unpredictably between the curious and the grotesque. [Watch]
Filtering out the best from the torrent of worldwide commercial advertising is a definite slog but ultimately worthwhile because hidden in that relentless flow of mediocrity you will find gems worth snatching and savoring. [Watch]
3D motion design studio rfvisuals in Seoul, South Korea, combines motion capture of professional golfers with carefully executed cloth simulations to showcase the design and technically advanced fabrics of Callaway Apparel. [Watch]
We don’t know of any other best-of-year lists that recognize explainer videos but Stash has a definite soft spot for designers and animators with the skill set and patience required to distill complex ideas into engaging content. [Watch]
The latest CG motion experiment in Google’s Deepmind Visualizing AI series arrives courtesy of Novoto Studio in Berlin with their take on the idea that “everyone can participate in the festival of AI and drive positive impact in the world”. [Watch]
As directors and studios embrace the expanding creative freedom associated with producing titles and trailers for design-related events, the visual and emotional rewards have multiplied exponentially for both organizers and fans. [Watch]