Director Kris Merc teams with CD Daniel Garcia at Yes Boss and the animation team at MEMOMA Estudio to wrap several tasty layers of wit and 2D wizardry around this Atomic Blonde promo for Adult Swim. [Watch]
Adult Swim reinvigorates the exquisite corpse genre with a three-minute avalanche of style and action featuring the talents of 28 animators and centered on TOM 5.0 the current host of Toonami, the channel’s adult animation block. [Watch]
The Aardman Nathan Love crew blow right past their regular 3D character animation parking space to join director Kris Merc in the pop-culture passing lane with this seizure-inducing torrent of multimedia disguised as the music video for Kool Keith X MF Doom ”Super Hero.” [Watch]
Inspired by anime, propaganda art, the murals of Diego Rivera, and graffiti paintings, Not To Scale director Kris Merc takes on modern cultural excess in the video for “To My Surprise” from veteran Manchester rockers James and asks “what if love was the driving force of our cultures and interactions?” [Watch]
New York director Kris Mercado talks to Stash about smashing together dot matrix printers, cel animation, found footage, live action, and stop motion to conjure a certain low-fi chaos he calls “retro funk weirdness” for rap legend Kool Keith and young hip-hop producer L’Orange.
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From the release: Not To Scale, a film and animation content studio, today announced the signing of award-winning director Kris Merc for representation worldwide. He has received accolades for creating visually striking music videos for acts such as De La Soul, Spirit Animal, and Joey BadA$, and for brands including HTC, Ziploc, Reebok, Nintendo, Coke, […] [Watch]
