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Typography Meets Architecture in Airbnb Spot by Buck and House Special

A landscape of hand-built miniature houses (inspired by real Airbnb properties) and their CG occupants come to highly-detailed life in this spot crafted by Buck and House Special for Airbnb’s AirCover travel protection. [Watch]

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The North Face “Summit Series Footwear” Product Film

Swiss director Maxime Durand and Montreal art director Vincent Raineri elevate the interview-based brand film into new and visually dynamic territory for The North Face and their Summit range of mountaineering boots. [Watch]

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Polyester Tunes Up Toon Blast with New Animated Trailer

Jeremy Dimmock, CD/partner at Polyester in Toronto: “We were commissioned by the lovely people at Toon Blast to make a trailer for their video game – an action-packed Mad Max meets Dune animation featuring the game’s hero characters, props, and icons, in an unexpected and thrilling spot with a cliff hanger ending.” [Watch]

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Pleid St. Launches the Lily Zero for Mulberry

Pleid St., the Madrid CG studio that brought us the fabulous Vlisco Garden last year, returns with more surreal visions of high fashion in this work to launch the carbon neutral leather update to Mulberry’s classic Lily handbag. [Watch]

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Need for Speed Unbound Reveal Trailer (ft. A$AP Rocky) by Mike&Payne and Realtime UK

Directing duo Mike&Payne (whose talents for gaming action are on full display here and here) link up with London studio Realtime UK on the trailer for the latest Need For Speed release complete with mocap of A$AP Rocky. [Watch]

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Motion Punk’s “A(n)ti” Dance Trailer Doubles as a Tribute to the Women of Iran

Thanos Kagkalos (aka Motion Punk), 3D artist/motion design director in Athens: “A(n)ti was created as a promotional trailer for a Greek dance performance based on Sophocles’ play Antigone.” [Watch]

All In Pixel and BOL Deal With Their “Retrogame Issues”

From the team at BOL in Barcelona: “Retrogame Issues takes us back to a decade of big hair, saturated colors, 8-bits, local arcades, and when setting up a new video game required MacGyver-like skills.”
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Real-Time Animated Short Film “BLUE” by Robert Petrie and Preymaker

Director Robert Petrie leads Preymaker’s cloud-based team of 30 artists and animators on a seven-minute family friendly sci-fi adventure made in real-time with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. [Watch]

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ITV Creative and Coffee & TV Destroy Emmerdale’s 50th Anniversary

Venerable British soap opera Emmerdale celebrates 50 years on air with this ambitious promo for an anniversary episode featuring 3D-scanned/printed figures of the cast with VFX and post by London studio Coffee & TV. [Watch]

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Scarecrow Discovers New Life as Dancer After Failed Ad Pitch

Yves Geleyn rescues a scarecrow character (designed by fellow Hornet director Renaud Lavency) from the failed pitch graveyard with the addition of expressive choreography by animator Matt Corsillo. [Watch]

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“Hacking Google” Mini Series Graphics Package by Imaginary Forces

Imaginary Forces, whose body of motion work is both deep (founded in 1996) and widely influential, continues to innovate with this latest design work for a Google docuseries taking viewers behind the scenes with the company’s hackers. [Watch]

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Spec Miu Miu Product Film by Kim Haeun

Director/animator Kim Haeun in Seoul, South Korea: “In this personal film, I branded a perfume sold by Miu Miu, focusing on the brand slogan, ‘My imaginary friend and ideal design I dreamed of as a child.’ [Watch]

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Tendril Ramps Up Riot Worlds 2022 with Branding Toolkit

CDs Alexandre Torres, Nidia Dias, Tom Crate, and director Adam Brandon lead the Tendril crew in crafting a powerful identity, motion branding system, and toolkit for Riot Worlds 2022, the annual global championships for League of Legends. [Watch]

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Typesetting in the Sky: Hobbes Launches “Aerial” Font for Drones

Detroit motion studio Hobbes brings carefully crafted typography to the night sky with the design and programming of their aptly named Aerial font family designed specifically for drone shows. [Watch]