For the 11th year, the Australian mega-conference Pause Fest was the catalyst for a series of short films called Pause Originals where artists “regain creative control, experiment, collaborate, and gain valuable industry exposure.” [Watch]
Animation director Shawn Wang, who first grabbed our attention with his 2016 student film Planet Unknown, leads the Digital Domain Shanghai crew on this dramatic crossbreeding of games Arknights and Rainbow Six: Siege. [Watch]
Brighton film director, animator, and VFX artist Jeb Hardwick teams with Budapest animation studio Umbrella for a gritty and apocalyptic take on “Meteor” by British metalcore band Architects. [Watch]
Berlin director/animator Cornelius Joksch says his new tragicomedy Oh, Darling, a quirky passion project about an obsessive but clumsy bird lover, “is about accidentally destroying something you like.” [Watch]
Confused by NFTs and #cryptoart? UK director/animator Bee Grandinetti feels your pain, looks into the problem and provides her conclusion in this bite-sized morsel of animated fun. [Watch]
UK credit broker TotallyMoney looks to break out of a crowded market with silly wordplay backed by a disarming trio of dancing amphibians (hand-animated by the CG crew at Milford) who seem to still be working out the routine. [Watch]
