UK VFX powerhouse Electric Theatre Collective creates a cast of toys and tchotchkes revealing the hard truth about a family’s home in IKEA’s first Christmas spot courtesy of MJZ director Tom Kuntz and Mother London. [Watch]
Tendril’s elegant and tactile work for Microsoft continues with this film highlighting features of the new UI for Yammer, the company’s enterprise social networking service for communication within organizations. [Watch]
Mateusz Kozlowski, an animation artist/designer in Gdansk, Poland, creates an appropriately surreal and surprisingly emotional CG dream for a track by Polish electronic artist New Rome (aka Tomasz Bednarczyk). [Watch]
Veteran filmmaker/animator Carlos Baena (whose extensive feature credits include Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, and Toy Story 3) based this personal short film on struggles with a dark emotional situation in his own life. [Watch]
New York studio Art Camp and director Saad Moosajee, who made waves this year with the Spotify-sponsored music video for Mitski “A Pearl”, conjure another blend of 3D and hand-crafted 2D in this moody and magical work for Thom Yorke. [Watch]
Tendril says their new spec project, a 50-second CG tribute to classic anime movies, “was born out of our love for game cinematics and our desire to showcase our strength in character animation.” [Watch]
