Art director Fausto Montanari and the crew at Lobster Studio spent more than a year working with Amazon’s creative team to develop a vast array of upbeat illustration and animation assets for the company’s Halo activity tracker and app. [Watch]
Asked by Sony Music to create something “darkly beautiful” for a track off the new Johnny Cash album featuring The Royal Philharmonic, NYC director/animator Gabriel Tick responded with this enigmatic visual poem. [Watch]
Director/animator Marc Eijkelenboom’s melancholy CG short The Iceman is a passion project based on the real-life story of Dutch extreme athlete and author Wim Hof and speaks to the power of finding opportunity in tragedy. [Watch]
Designer/illustrator Sasha Vinogradova in Los Angeles: “Forest is an environmentally conscious fairy tale that doubles as a grim fable about humans’ capacity for destruction.” [Watch]
In her first commission since signing with Nexus Studios, recent NFTS animation graduate Neeraja Raj helms an ambitious 90-second spot driving home the fact one in 10 people do not have easy access to clean drinking water. [Watch]
Determined to fight virus fatigue with absurdist comedy, New York director/animator Dante Zaballa and Welsh artist Osian Efnisien (who also collaborated on Zabella’s Doodle Project II), release a “groundbreaking documentary that nobody asked for.” [Watch]
