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March 31, 2025
After working with BUCK on the identity for the London stop on Playgrounds’ new In Motion traveling festival, Amsterdam-based director Erwin van den IJssel translated the branding into these stand-out opening titles. [Watch]
Martijn Hogenkamp, founder/ECD at PlusOne® in Amsterdam: “This is a short film in which we celebrate a selection of our style frames that got killed, but not forgotten.” [Watch]
Elastic creative director Paul Mitchell, whose intricate and electrifying CG motion work for ESPN we have covered here and here, continues to dazzle sports fans with this cacophony of design and light for Monday Night Football. [Watch]
From the team at Rocketpanda in Verona, Italy: “MassiveMusic helped the new Verizon-owned prepaid carrier Visible with brand positioning and connecting with a younger audience through music and sound design. We had the pleasure to translate this journey into motion graphics.” [Watch]
Passion Pictures directors againstallodds channel a classic Disney vibe for this emotional fairy-tale-gone-wrong raising awareness of dementia’s heartbreak for Alzheimer’s Research UK thru agency Above+Beyond with VO by Olivia Colman. [Watch]
When a client abandoned a recent project after months of work, directors/co-founders Moises Arancibia and Pablo Gonzalez at SMOG in Santiago, Chile, chose to complete the film – about a sweet, knowledge-hungry boy – on their own. [Watch]
After a chance meeting earlier this year, Hamburg 3D artists Max Salzborn and Kevin Jaeger leveraged their new friendship into a collaborative motion art project investigating the universal and deeply inherent urge to collect. [Watch]
CD Harry Butt and the Nexus Design Studio leave no motion styles unexplored as they wrangle a fun collective of artists and animators into this unpredictable campaign thru Mother LA for Uber’s US food delivery service Postmates. [Watch]
A collaboration between virtual animated singer KAF and Japanese musician/DJ/producer Mondo Grosso comes to shimmering life in this ambitious music video created by Tokyo CG house Khaki for virtual talent agency Kamitsubaki Studio. [Watch]
Barcelona’s Clim Studio launches the Elaia bag for luxury Spanish leather goods brand Helia with a film ECD Clim describes as “a visual language of perfumed light and salty breeze, nurtured by elegance and proudly feminine.” [Watch]
We’re guessing the all-Buenos Aires team of animation/design studio Váscolo and Drop Music Branding had a blast making this action-comedy short featuring a legendary Kung Fu master, a very hungry bear, and their shared love of raw fish. [Watch]
Brooklyn visual artist and director Omar Jones teams with the UK’s master of hand-animated chaos RUFFMERCY on this 100-second visual rampage for American rapper Denzel Curry. [Watch]
In this new music video for Paris duo Chien Méchant, director Kelzang Ravach leads French studio Temple Caché into an acid-enhanced 80s nightmare, lacing live-action footage with an AI-generated graphic style. [Watch]
From the team at Rumpus Animation in Bristol: “Jane Fonda, Camila Cabello, and Simon Pegg voice our short film Sanctuary designed to motivate supporters and urge governments to ratify the Global Ocean Treaty and protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030.” [Watch]
