US designer/director Matt Smithson warms up the revolutionary (and somewhat scary) breakthroughs in mind reading technology with eccentric, light-hearted visuals for the Future of Storytelling speaker Marvin Chun, the Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology at Yale. [Watch]
The hypnotic combination of Eoin Duffy’s witty, minimalist animation with the understated confidence of narrator Addison Anderson may be the secret to helping everyone understand everything. [Watch]
If you like the “California Inspires Me” animated series from California Sunday Magazine and Google Play, you’ll love this enchanting new piece from Oscar-nominated Montreal animator/illustrator Patrick Doyon for The Red Bull Music Academy. [Watch]
Spike Jonze contravenes all the established rules of fragrance promotion (elegance, sexiness, passive femininity) in this frenetic four-minute slice of branded content for KENZO WORLD starring actress/dancer Margaret Qualley with supporting VFX by Digital Domain. [Watch]
The immediate success of Overwatch, Blizzard’s team-based multiplayer first-person shooter (and the company’s first new gaming franchise since StarCraft in 1998), is due in large part to a series of spectacular animated short films. [Watch]
What started out for Buenos Aires studio Plenty as a straightforward project to recreate Rio de Janeiro in full CG, soon evolved into a complex experiment merging a sweeping practical MDF miniature of the city and 10 3D-printed statues of olympic athletes with projection mapping. [Watch]
