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March 31, 2025
Join UK director and motion designer Simon Russell as he takes us through the creative and technical challenges of his intricate and hypnotic new personal work ROTATOR, a short film based on visual and audio symmetry. [Watch]
Laen Sanches, a French art director and motion designer based in Amsterdam, recruits the Midjourney AI platform to create an undersea dystopia designed to submerge the viewer in the disturbing reality of ocean plastic pollution. [Watch]
Aidan Zamiri, the Glaswegian director/photographer represented by Object & Animal partners with digital artist Yuma Burgess on this riveting music video for FKA twigs that is fully worthy of frame-by-frame viewing. [Watch]
UK illustrator/animator Steve Cutts (whose short film Happiness we consider mandatory viewing), just dropped his latest cheery observation about humanity, a frantic three-minute look at our proclivity for conflict called “A Brief Disagreement”. [Watch]
Following a stellar run on the festival circuit, the quizzical charm of Au Revoir Jérôme! (Goodbye Jerome!), the graduation film by Gobelins students Adam Sillard, Gabrielle Selnet, and Chloé Farr is now available for your viewing pleasure. [Watch]
Set free to explore new 3D design directions for Google, Portland director and CG artist Zachary Corzine conjures a series of tactile experiments in materials both alien and familiar. [Watch]
Referencing Rapunzel’s legendary locks, Copenhagen CG studio Frame craft an elegant and intricate film to introduce the Brothers Grimm limited edition fountain pen for German luxury brand Montblanc. [Watch]
From the team at Golden Wolf: “The fourth installment of our epic collaboration with Supercell and Psyop sees OG Brawl Stars brawler Pam get her much-anticipated moment in the limelight. [Watch]
Director Chris Ullens, who recently signed with Friends Electric, embraces all the imperfections of lo-fi stop-motion in this splash of dark comedy for American pop singer GAYLE and her ode to conflicted emotions and nightmare neighbors. [Watch]
Toronto director/animator Jordan Clarke reverses the usual process of creating AI-generated films by manually animating visuals to a narrative generated by OpenAI in response to his prompt. [Watch]
The first film in a new series from Hornet designed as “a place to play, experiment, and take risks – a sandbox of sorts, where artists are free to push the limits of their creativity, without constraints.” [Watch]
LA director and visual innovator Brent Bonacorso (who created this stunner for Grimes during lockdown) tackles the intricacies of merging two icons of Americana in this spot for a Disney-themed trim level for Chevy. [Watch]
Founder and director JM Blay at Blay Studio: “We were approached to create several tech videos for Tempur, well-known for its R&D, engineering, manufacturing, and distribution of mattresses, pillows, and other sleep and relaxation products. [Watch]
In a chilling mix of live-action, CG, and AI, director and CG artist Somei Sun crafts a sci-fi heroine and futurescape for fast-rising Chinese game maker Zilong and their upcoming mobile title 2089: Frontier. [Watch]
