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March 31, 2025
After resonating deeply with festival audiences, Spiegeling, the animated short film by Dutch director Sanna de Vries brings its timely message about our obsession with self-image to the online universe where the problem is perhaps most virulent. [Watch]
The Line director/co-founder Wesley Louis leads his team into the world of gamer fantasies with this anime-flavored anthem/music video for Riot Games’ League of Legends Worlds tournament 2022. [Watch]
Back in 2018, ECD Ryan Honey and the crew at Buck spun the dating app Tinder into something timeless and wonderful by creating a warm and lighthearted mix of CG characters and practical miniature sets. [Watch]
French artist Benoit Challand and Italian designer Pietro Franceschini spin their talents together in this elegant film created for the D3sign Capsule x Elle Décoration exhibition during Paris Design Week 2022. [Watch]
San Francisco animation artist Nata Metlukh (whose wonderfully deranged short film Pura Vida you should watch) just dropped a delightful piece of hand-animated absurdity about type called Regular. [Watch]
The Half Rez motion design event returned live to Chicago this year with a packed house and this opening from the team at Flavor who slammed together 2D, 3D, AI, VR, and mo-capped puppets into a mad visual rampage. [Watch]
Coalescing live-action, VFX and AI-generated animation, Montreal director Derek Branscombe conjures a form of liquid dream state for DJ/producer/musician Ourielle Auvé based on her own out-of-body experiences. [Watch]
Amazon Prime’s first Thursday Night Football stream went live Sept 15 with Imaginary Forces providing a fresh take on NFL game intros – a retro-flavored mix of 2D and 3D action which the studio will update for each week’s match-up. [Watch]
Brooklyn digital artist Wes Cockx investigates new ideas in texture and color for Google’s Material You unified design language with this compilation of tactile and playful CG experiments. [Watch]
The creative and production teams at TBWA\Melbourne recruit AI platform Midjourney to interpret passages from classic novels into powerful illustrations for this promotional campaign/art project for the Melbourne Writers Festival. [Watch]
Working with deep fake specialist French Faker, Division director Arnaud Bresson and The Mill layer live-action, CG, Flame work, and motion design into an appropriately disturbing music video for British rapper M.I.A. [Watch]
In a massive merger of live-action and VFX, Stink director Felix Brady teams with post houses Platige and UPP to condense 2000 years of history into 80 seconds and mark the 15th anniversary of Ubisoft’s mega franchise Assassin’s Creed. [Watch]
Following their collab on Legends of Runeterra in 2021, directing duo Mike Tyler and Richard Payne re-team with Danish animation masters Sun Creature on this visual blast for the Midnight Suns game from Marvel and Firaxis. [Watch]
London branding force Superunion work with Boston digital artist Ari Weinkle to evolve their breakout image campaign for the LSO (based on motion data of conductor Sir Simon Rattle’s baton) for the 2022/23 Season. [Watch]
