Blue Zoo Animation Launches Advertising and Shortform Director Roster
July 3, 2025
Taiko Studios Celebrates Chinese New Year with Airbnb
Oscar-nominated in 2019 for their breakout short film “One Small Step”, Taiko Studio teams with Shanghai prodco Final Frontier to craft an epic heartwarmer in an illustrative 3D style for Airbnb China. [Watch]
Hornet Heaps More Hell on Habito
From Hornet in NYC: “Director Andy Baker teamed up with Uncommon Creative Studio to illustrate just how hellish, nightmarish, and downright mortally stressful it can be to buy a home without the help of Habito, the UK’s largest online mortgage broker. [Watch]
Aardman’s “Turtle Journey” Underway for Greenpeace
Director Gavin Strange unites the stop-motion and CG animation teams at Aardman for this Greenpeace call to action highlighting the pressures of climate change, plastic pollution, oil drilling, and overfishing on the world’s oceans. [Watch]
“Tomorrow’s On Fire” Short Film by Darcy Prendergast
Darcy Prendergast, founder/director at prodco Oh Yeah Wow in the Melbourne, Australia says he made “Tomorrow’s On Fire” as a way of trying to process the devastating bushfire crisis currently ravaging his country. [Watch]
Imaginary Forces Opens “See” for Apple TV+
Creative director Karin Fong follows stylistically diverse work for “Jack Ryan” on Amazon and “Tell Me a Story” on CBS All Access with these ominous/intriguing titles for the Apple TV+ series “See” which finds humans in a future without their sense of sight. [Watch]
Mixcode Unleashes for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon
Hot on the heels of their multi-technique work for Gogoro scooters, Taipei studio MixCode zags style-wise to deliver a jolt of hand-drawn dynamics highlighting the benefits of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile game experience. [Watch]
