Eddy director Clément Soulmagnon (whose work we track here), amplifies his signature animated poetry into far more intense and fiery territory in this new brand film for top-tier French cycling brand Van Rysel. [Watch]
				
			 
						
			
				
				
				Inspired by the films of early animation pioneer Oskar Fischinger, director Boris Seewald assembles 2,500 hand-drawn frames into a poetic expression of auditory perception for the University Medical Centre of Göttingen, Germany. [Watch]
				
			 
						
			
				
				
				The Stash Permanent Collection – aka the only streaming platform dedicated to design, animation, and VFX – just published issue 172. Preview the full two hours of motion brilliance with this two-minute trailer. [Watch]
				
					Category 3D Style, Advertising, AI, Animation, Brand film, Broadcast Design, BTS, BTS, CG, Character Animation, Explainer, Featured, Games, Motion Design, Music Video, Short Films, Stop Motion, VFX · Tags ALIEN STUDIO, Bemo, buck, CCLAB, César Furtado, Chu-Chieh Lee, Clim Studio, Coffee & TV, Dialogue, Elastic, Feral Child, Final Frontier, Fx Goby, HANZOHANZO, Hazel Baird, João Vaz Oliveira, Kevin, Kulfi Collective, Kylie Matulick, Laurie Rowan, Le Cube, Loop, Makmac, Mathematic, Michael Fragstein, Mighty NIce, Nexus, Nexus Studios, Panoply, Parasol Island, Passion Pictures, Plains of Yonder, Psyop, Reframe Studio, Roof Studio, Rough Collie, Santi Zoraidez, Sky Creative, Someform, Studio Taktil, Territory Studio, Todd Mueller, two&tall, Untold Studios, weareseventeen, Wolfberg, Yujin Song
				 
			 
						
			
				
				
				Working with UK illustrator/art director Matt Blease, the animation team at Niceshit Studio in Barcelona combines “classic comedy, bold scripts, and expressive characters” into a series of clean and quirky spots for IBM’s AI products. [Watch]
				
					Category Advertising, Animation, Character Animation, Featured, Illustration · Tags Carmen Angelillo, Facundo Capece, Guido Lambertini, IBM Blue Studio, Lola Ritcher, ogilvy, Rodier Kidmann
				 
			 
						
			
				
				
				Join 1stAveMachine director Anthony Dickenson as he assembles 5,000 hand-painted frames into a mesmeric music video for London-based electronic musician Rival Consoles (aka Ryan Lee West). The in-depth BTS starts at 3:00. [Watch]
				
			 
						
			
				
				
				After a stellar run on the festival circuit, Colombian director David Carrizales dropped us his first animated short film, a lighthearted ode to human commonality built on a wordless soundtrack of bodily-generated noises. [Watch]