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Tencent “Legends Live Forever” Brand Film by Nerdo and Final Frontier

Working with Stink Studios and Final Frontier, Italian studio Nerdo summons their illustrative and narrative talents for this revival of seven legends from Chinese mythology for a literary initiative between Tencent and Yuewen group. [Watch]

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Erste #believeinchristmas Holiday Ad by Dorian & Daniel and Able&Baker

Berlin-based directing duo Dorian & Daniel, who crafted this powerful climate change message for Erste earlier this year, take over the Austrian bank’s Christmas ad duties with a dark but hopeful stab at tyranny. [Watch]

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Minnesota Timberwolves City Edition Branding by Pixel Farm

The crew at Minneapolis studio Pixel Farm hits the hardwood to boost their hometown NBA team’s city edition branding in this vibrant film focused “on the intersection of court, culture, and community.” [Watch]

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National Art Pass “The More You See, The More You See” by Untold Studios

Untold Studios directors Ivo Sousa, Mark Harrison and editor James Humby layer up a fun assembly of live-action, animation, and 3D for the UK’s National Art Pass, with VFX help from London studio We Are Covert. [Watch]

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Job, Joris & Marieke Release Trailer for Their New Kid’s Series “SWOP”

Oscar-nominated Dutch animation studio Job, Joris & Marieke just released the trailer for their new kid’s show SWOP, a 12 x 10′ episode series based on their International Emmy-winning short film Kop Op. [Watch]

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Director Bea Höller Explores Female Sexuality in “Klimax” Short Film

Produced as part of her animation studies at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany, director Bea Höller says her short film Klimax is “meant to show how unique and beautiful every woman’s body is.” [Watch]

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Woodkid “Reactor” Music Video by Saad Moosajee

Working with a tiny but mighty animation team, Stink director Saad Moosajee imagines a suffocating world punctuated by glimpses of dance for Grammy-nominated French singer-songwriter (and fellow director) Woodkid. [Watch]

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“Wednesday” Series Main Titles by Filmograph

Director Tim Burton’s first shot at television, the new Netflix series Wednesday, opens with these appropriately spooky and only occasionally kooky titles from CD Aaron Becker and the crew at Filmograph in LA. [Watch]

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Scholar “Seize the Play” for Valorant with Game Changers Championship Trailer

The design/animation crew at Scholar celebrate the power of woman gamers in this hyper-kinetic trailer for the first Valorant Game Changers Championship which just wrapped in Berlin and featured the planet’s eight best female teams. [Watch]

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A Future AI Searches for Identity in “WAI-000” Short Film

CG artists Woosung Kang, Gryun Kim, and Taehoon Park just dropped this riveting and passionately detailed promo for their advanced Cinema 4D master class available thru Korean online education platform Coloso. [Watch]

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Jordan Clarke Meets an AI who Wants to be Famous

Toronto director/animator Jordan Clarke closes out his “f*ckai?” series of short films with a five-minute opus that ramps up his process of hand-animating 3D to a story generated by OpenAI in response to his prompt. [Watch]

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Noah Harris Loses His Popping Mind for Pringles

Agile Films’ director Noak Harris and the crew at Halo Post in London pop open 20 seconds of silly for Pringles in this very 2022 seasonal merger of Christmas and soccer thru Grey London. [Watch]

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Tommy Lee x Smearballs “Bouncy Castle” feat. Brittany Furlan

Toronto director/animator Nick DenBoer (aka Smearballs), whose signature brand of CG chaos ranges from festival openings to deadmau5 videos, joins forces with heavy metal bad boy Tommy Lee for an exercise in looping mayhem. [Watch]

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Reunion Animates “The Transatlantic Slave Trade” for The Equal Justice Initiative

Creative director Chris Carboni and his crew at Reunion in Brooklyn partner with US non-profit The Equal Justice Initiative to animate six films about the history of slavery and racial injustice in America. [Watch]