Well-suited to a sunny, early summer day, this looping collection of peaceful vignettes by Studio Orca director/co-founder Nelly Michenaud captures glimpses of Nantes, her beloved hometown on the Loire river. [Watch]
Mixcode Studio in Taipei, whose seemingly endless array of animation styles you can witness here, just dropped these illustration-based titles for the Taiwanese Netflix crime-thriller Million-Follower Detective. [Watch]
Fresh off a successful festival run, this beautifully drafted short film from directors Karl Doran, Winston Tsang, and the animation crew at Flow in Manchester wrap the magic of creative collaboration in myth and mystery. [Watch]
After collaborating for 20+ years, designer/directors Cornel Swoboda and Dennis Weyel founded Studio Trench in 2025 and immediately established what the world could expect from them with this riveting Braun spec film. [Watch]
Not To Scale director Anthony Farquhar-Smith invests his many stop-motion talents into building a Lilliputian world of peanut-obsessed characters for National Peanut Board thru agency Special USA. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, CG, Character Animation, Featured, Stop Motion · Tags Anthony Farquhar-Smith, Freefolk, National Peanut Board, Not to Scale, Special USA, Yamination Studios, Yessian
Nexus Studios director Laurie Rowan powers up the kitschy fun of an 80s training montage in this keynote film for Google’s I/O 2026 event, a cheeky and tactile merger of 3D animation, puppetry, and AI. [Watch]
Category AI, Animation, Brand film, CG, Character Animation, Featured, Puppets · Tags Factory Studios, Google, Laurie Rowan, Nexus, Nexus Studios