After a successful festival run, directors Ivan Miguel and Andy Camou just dropped us their CG short film The Untranslatable Forest, a poetic exploration of language and the fragile connections between culture and nature. [Watch]
Working thru BOL in Barcelona, directors Pol Solà, Guille Comin, and the animation crew at Device explore themes of memory and connection in Every Light In Between, a short film that feels both universal and very personal. [Watch]
Rio de Janeiro design and animation studio Beeldmotion takes a break from client work to put AI production under the microscope in this striking new in-house adventure in title design called EXO. [Watch]
If the purpose of a studio’s self-promo film is to show off their skills while making you feel good about the company, the design and motion team at MULTRA in Tokyo nailed it with this jazzy, animated, multi-media romp. [Watch]
Directors Harmony Korine and Sam Goldwater launch Bungie’s reboot of their Marathon game franchise with action, atmosphere, and arresting camera work in this music video/cinematic produced through Korine’s studio EDGLRD. [Watch]
Working through Japanese collective CALF, animation director Takashi Ohashi delivers a masterclass in character and style with this music video for Hatsuboshi Gakuen, the fictional band from the mobile game Gakuen Idolmaster. [Watch]
3D artist Martynas Genkovas just dropped us his new personal short film called Inspired by, an enigmatic collision of his architectural photography and ink-on-paper artwork with organic layers of crystalline 3D. [Watch]
Wonderfully relatable characters bound together by interwoven narratives, gentle humor, and a sense of poetry make the student short film Jour de Vent (Windy Day) a nice break from our usual diet of brand-driven work. [Watch]
Magna directing duo Ivo Beckett and James Topley (aka DEADHORSES) tear into the rough and ready nature of women’s football in this noisy yet surgically assembled promo for Channel 4’s coverage of The Adobe Women’s FA Cup. [Watch]
French motion studio NŌBL channels the strategy and sacrifice of a chess match in this film for Vitality, one of Europe’s top esports teams, and their participation in the Esports World Cup 2026 this summer in Riyadh. [Watch]
Eccentric comedy is one of our favorite strategies for punching out of adland clutter, and it’s deftly handled here by director Ugo Mangin and Brussels prodco Hamlet for French ride-hailing app Heetch thru Paris agency Grinta. [Watch]
Digital Kitchen sets a tense and foreboding tone for season two of the Amazon crime thriller series Cross, orchestrating a layered collision between the psyche of detective Alex Cross and his city, Washington, D.C. [Watch]
Join us at Animorsels, April 16 in Nottingham for an evening of animated time travel and drinks with talks from BUCK’s Jen Zheng, animation director Steff Lee, and animator/CD Sophie Johnson-Hill. [Watch]
The hapless non-playable characters of the gaming world finally have their day as one of them breaks free in this Coinbase spot by MJZ director Oscar Hudson thru agency Isle of Any, and aired during the Academy Awards. [Watch]