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March 31, 2025
Exploring the history and mythology of the color black, Nextthing director Fu Binbin and McCann Shanghai create an enigmatic drama of grand proportions “to convey a palpable sense of power” for Chevrolet China. [Watch]
Kouhei Nakama, the director/animator who first stormed into the Best of Stash with his short film Makin’ Moves in 2017, pushes his signature CG character experiments to intense new levels in this music video for EDM producer/DJ Ummet Ozcan. [Watch]
Community-driven NFT project Doodles announced their new collection during the NFT.NYC 2022 event with this insanely upbeat film by the design and animation team at Golden Wolf. [Watch]
Digital artist Erik Wernquist in Stockholm: “If we want to travel beyond our solar system within a human lifetime, we will need to find ways to go incredibly fast. Ultimately, it comes down to our understanding of physics and the laws that govern the Universe. [Watch]
Meeting your partner’s ex is seldom easy and as UK director/animator/designer Samuel de Ceccatty points out, that goes double for Eve when Adam’s first wife Lilith happens into the garden for a little catch-up. [Watch]
In 2016, with his Emmy for Main Title Design on The Man In The High Castle in hand, Patrick Clair set out to redefine what hi-tech horror felt like with his opening for Westworld on HBO. This fourth iteration mixes familiar imagery from past seasons with stark new themes and symbols. [Watch]
In this spec film for NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, Portland director/animator Anton Weaver combines graphic restraint, careful rendering, and just enough science to create a sense of wonder and anticipation. [Watch]
Director Simlynn and Pixel Workshop in Chengdu City, China take CG characters to their happy place in this grand fantasy for 52TOYS, a company that specializes in collectible blind box figures. [Watch]
Hussain Almossawi, founder/director at Mossawi Studios in Brooklyn, NY: “In this collaboration with Intel, we created a short art film that visually evokes different emotions and feelings through motion, sound, color, and form.” [Watch]
Working with production partners Partizan, creative director Oriol Puig and the team at Trizz Studio in Barcelona, elevate a mouse and keyboard from everyday tools to transformative design objects in this film for Logitech. [Watch]
From the team at Giant Ant in Vancouver: “We’ve been toiling away for the better part of a year on a broadcast package for Cartoon Network’s newly launched preschool block: Cartoonito.” [Watch]
Director Jacob Kurek and the design and animation team at BluBlu craft a prismatic explainer for Natural Atlas, an interactive app designed to connect users with nature and a community of fellow naturalists. [Watch]
The South by Southwest Festival announces its first international edition will go live in Sydney in October 2023 with this multi-technique animated film by hometown directors Danny Stern and Jonathan Pui thru Present Company. [Watch]
Polyester Studio in Toronto just dropped their latest in-house short film called Passage, a surreal mix of cel and 3D animation they describe as “a man’s journey inward as he strives for peace in the moments after death.” [Watch]
