The all-Melbourne team of directing duo Lumberfly, prodco Pixel, and agency Cummins & Partners conjure a perfectly odd couple in this charming character work for Australian financial services provider Equip Super. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, CG, Character Animation, Featured · Tags Cummins & Partners, Echo Darling, Equip Super, Hen Beeman, Josh Thomas, Lumberfly, Pixel
Vancouver design and animation studio Global Mechanic teams with AIM Creative Studios in Portugal for a series of vibrant and painterly brand films for the University of British Columbia thru Canadian agency ONE23WEST. [Watch]
Psyop director Clint Chang corrals a small army of international artists and animators into a three-spot campaign for Apple Japan thru TBWA\Media Arts Lab Tokyo, with Psyop and Hakuhodo Product/REDHILL sharing post duties. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, Character Animation, Featured, Illustration, Motion Design · Tags Anastasiia Sharandina, Apple, Aurelie Denans, Buda, Chalkboy, Chika Umino, Eiko Ojala, Haruko Hayakawa, Hikaru Ichijo, Minji Moon, POOL, Psyop, Shotopop, TBWA\Media Arts Lab, Zach Rosenbrugh
Armed with hard science and a cheeky song, US non-profit Fuck Cancer encourages men to take their prostrate health in hand with a brilliant animated film from São Paulo studio Dirty Work and audio house Jamute thru agency VML Health. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, Brand film, Character Animation, Featured, Music Video · Tags Dirty Work, Eclipse Color, Faga Melo, Fuck Cancer, Gustavo Leal, Jamute, VML Health
Nexus Studios’ directing collective Shynola (Chris Harding, Jason Groves, Richard Kenworthy) let loose with Crayola pencils in this spot for the brand’s collab with McDonald’s, encouraging kids to embrace their creativity. [Watch]
In his latest video for Saharan collective Tinariwen, director/animator Axel Digoix details the band’s incredible origin story of how two Tuareg children fell in love with music and persevered despite intense conflict and censorship. [Watch]