ECD Oriol Puig and the design/CG crew at Trizz in Barcelona sculpt carbon and luminescent lava into a dramatic product reveal film for US bike innovators Cannondale and their SuperSix EVO racing model. [Watch]
Combining live-action with seamless yet stylized CG/VFX, UK director Adam Y. K. Chan and Shanghai digital studio Ripple Group execute an adrenaline fest for Chinese luxury EV maker Human Horizons and their flagship HiPhi Z. [Watch]
Director Tavo Ponce and his team at TAVO Studio in Madrid respond to a brief from Givenchy Paris to create the launch video for their TK-360 sneaker with the beguiling vision of a sci-fi manufacturing process. [Watch]
The first in a series of finely crafted explainer films for Dutch Solar Electric Vehicle (SEV) maker Lightyear from creative director Martijn Hogenkamp and the team at Amsterdam Motion Design studio PlusOne. [Watch]
Somewhere in a sleek but empty airport, imaginary passengers enjoy the ambient beauty of these motion design murals designed and animated by CDs Alex Mikhaylov, Max Chelyadnikov, and their crew at Loop. [Watch]
Toiling away over the course of a year after work and on weekends, New York City 3D artist Alec Iselin animated this abstract but very personal short film to consciously confront the rabbit hole of self-doubt. [Watch]
Frankfurt motion design and CG animation studio STYLEFRAME just dropped us their latest R&D project, a spec spot that transforms Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 portable synthesizer into a must-have objet d’art. [Watch]
The groundbreaking B-Line Boby trolley, designed by Joe Colombo in 1970 and part of the MoMA permanent collection, receives a snappy homage in this student work by South Korean director/animator Eunto during his tenure at VDAS. [Watch]
Freshly signed to the director roster at Passion Paris, Colombian animator/character designer Juan Pablo Machado channels his favorite manga artists in this music video fantasy for French producer/musician Sandór Waïss. [Watch]
Creative director Ezequiel Pini at Six N. Five in Barcelona: “Humans modify, adapt, and ultimately destroy what mother nature freely offered to us. Home, the earth, is all we have. It is our plan A and also, plan B.” [Watch]
How do you open a retro-future TV series about a scam selling timeshares on the moon? CD Ronnie Koff and Imaginary Forces opted for what they describe as a “hypnotic ride of apparatuses with an underlying eerie imbalance.” [Watch]
Despite boasting the longest list of VFX credits we’ve ever seen for a commercial, director Mark Jenkinson and The Mill crew keep narrative and emotion firmly in the foreground of NASCAR’s ambitious 75th anniversary film. [Watch]
The motion team at Woodwork Amsterdam captures the anticipation and intrigue of Wilson’s Airless Basketball Prototype which was introduced to fans and players IRL during the NBA All-Star game this past weekend. [Watch]
The year of the rabbit will never be the same after this rampage of impossibly happy triple-threat bunnies created by CD Nicolas Lesaffre and the crew at Nikopicto in Hong Kong for HSBC’s PayMe mobile payment service. [Watch]