Trapped in the desert sand, alien skeletons crumble into dust in this haunting and obsessively detailed promo from the team at Panoply in London for the new season of American Horror Story on FX. [Watch]
A bitter-sweet tale of leaving and family, this animated short from five 2021 Gobelins animation grads was inspired by the work of Japanese artists, including manga master Matsumoto Taiyó, illustrator Taniucho Rokuró, and filmmaker Yuasa Masaaki. [Watch]
Building on the success of Burberry’s breakout 2020 holiday ad, Riff Raff directors Megaforce and MPC’s VFX team regroup to conjure more weather-driven extreme dancing while elevating the choreography to magical new heights. [Watch]
The latest work from prolific UK director/animator Russ Murphy finds him deconstructing the face of rapper/producer Mac Miller into a glitchy and low-tech but ultimately hypnotic sequence of handmade frames. [Watch]
Hungarian CG studio DIGIC Pictures continues its run as an elite purveyor of film for the game industry with this character-driven work for Unknown 9: Awakening, the third-person action/adventure from Reflector Entertainment. [Watch]
Exploring the concept of “what lies underneath the ice”, creative director Paul Mitchell and the crew at Elastic mark the return of NHL games to ESPN (after 20 years) with this ambitious and frosty mix of CG and 2D motion design. [Watch]
