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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
All the real-time football action tracking features of Hublot’s new limited-edition FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 smartwatch get their close-ups in this striking launch film from the Tendril crew. [Watch]
Nexus director Johnny Kelly melds stop-motion, 2D/3D animation, and the talents of UK puppetmaster Andy Gent into a message advocating conscious consumption for renewed devices marketplace Back Market. [Watch]