Toronto director/animator Nick DenBoer (aka Smearballs), whose signature brand of CG chaos ranges from festival openings to deadmau5 videos, joins forces with heavy metal bad boy Tommy Lee for an exercise in looping mayhem. [Watch]
With help from Midjourney, director Tristan Holmes conjures 10,000+ AI-generated frames and animates them into a relentless protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine for Chicago heavy metal band Disturbed. [Watch]
The latest issue of Stash just hit the Permanent Collection with a whole new crop of inspired design, animation, and VFX work. Sneak a peek at the new two-minute trailer to see which work made the cut. [Watch]
Directing duo Shan Christopher Ogilvie and Ewa Smyk (aka Bare Golly Films) gather a remote team of artists to paint 1,200 watercolors and fuse them into a gently fluid music video for multiple Grammy-winner Jacob Collier. [Watch]
UK duo Sad Night Dynamite (aka Josh Greacen and Archie Blagden), who Equate Magazine described as “The Blair Witch Project meets Gorillaz”, team with Canadian director/VFX artist Lucas Hrubizna for a riveting and unrelenting nightmare. [Watch]
Emmy-nominated British director/artist Em Cooper hand-animates oil paint into a surreal exploration of the space between dreaming and wakefulness for the Special Edition release of The Beatles’ “I’m Only Sleeping”. [Watch]
