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March 31, 2025
With a sharp mix of abstracted macro CG and pristinely rendered product features, German design and animation studios TACTYC and Effekt-Etage launch the 2022 edition of Volkswagen’s Amarok pickup truck in a dramatic two-minute showpiece. [Watch]
Working from a script by Toronto agency Broken Heart Love Affair and backed up by VFX from Motif Studios and Tantrum, Scouts Honour director Mark Zibert condenses 4.6 billion years of history into six powerful minutes. [Watch]
Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning Dutch directors Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins, and Marieke Blaauw just released their latest short film, a rather dark comedy/thriller about gender conformity. [Watch]
Blinkink directing duo Stevie Gee & Essy May are back with another animated mashup for Amazon Music in this merry merger of miniatures, 2D animation, and stop motion thru Droga5 London. [Watch]
New London-based directing duo Katy Wang and Gabriel Greenough seamlessly weave 2D and 3D animation into a dreamlike celebration of the natural world for On Being, the podcast hosted by journalist and author Krista Tippett. [Watch]
Grandly atmospheric set pieces and genuinely emotional moments with the protagonist elevate this trailer crafted by director Emnet Muluget and Goodbye Kansas for Ubisoft’s upcoming action-adventure game Skull and Bones thru DDB Paris. [Watch]
London CG artist Peter Tomaszewicz continues his surreal motion experiments with Nature Drill, a new piece he describes as a “quirky and playful selection of factory-like elements embracing each other in a minimal yet bouncy set.” [Watch]
Formed in 1998, Gorillaz were not the first virtual band (see Alvin and the Chipmunks, 1958) but certainly the coolest and now, almost 25 years later, the quartet moves into a new phase with this mix of 3D and live-action directed by co-founder Jamie Hewlett and Nexus Studios’ Fx Goby. [Watch]
The design and motion team at Bliss in Barcelona team with Spanish directing trio MANSON and Agency AKQA for a loose and low-tech look at key moments in Nike history for the brand’s 50th anniversary. [Watch]
Plenty of strange things are afoot in Atlanta as the fourth and final season of Donald Glover’s multi-award-winning TV series returns to FX Networks this September. [Watch]
Director and concept artist Lauren Indovina heads up a sprawling international production crew, led by VFX and animation studio LIGHT, as they corral NFTs, bored apes, and web3 into a crypto adventure of epic proportions. [Watch]
Venerable US oil and gas company Conoco gets a thoroughly quirky update in this series of fun character films by director Lucas Camargo and the design/animation team at ROOF in New York. [Watch]
Working to a track by rapper/songwriter Princess Nokia, Strange Beast director Sacha Beeley stages the sequel to her 2021 adland hit “The Pube Song” in the ongoing quest to make the world more comfortable with the hair down there. [Watch]
From the team at Le Cube in Buenos Aires: “When CreateMe invited us to collaborate in their fashion industry revolution, we couldn’t be happier to bring our vision to the mix.” [Watch]
