Studio AKA director Marc Craste and Blacklist take on the challenge of injecting warmth and emotion into an ad for one of the planet’s humblest of consumer products: sidewalk ice melt. [Watch]
Completed over the course of four months as their senior thesis film, Ringling College Motion Design students Jacob Ferguson and Adrian Pumarejo capture the mind-altering terror of child abuse in this atmospheric and visceral jolt of stylized CG called “The Invisible Truth.” [Watch]
75 years ago this month, French composer, organist and ornithologist Olivier Messiaen premiered “Quartet for the End of Time” while held captive in a WWII prisoner-of-war camp. [Watch]
New work from Axis director Ben Hibon always promises atmospheric drama and lots of very cool frames. Latest evidence: this CG trailer for League of Legends: Mind of the Virtuoso for Riot Games. [Watch]
Fans of Anthony Schepperd‘s psychotropic animated insanity will not be disappointed by his latest effort, a video for BOOTS (aka American producer/rapper/musician Jordan Asher) which begins with a dystopian narrative thread but soon devolves into the torrent of hand-drawn chaos we love so much. [Watch]
The first spot in Wieden+Kennedy’s Smellegendary campaign for Old Spice combines a fun script (see below), French actor/heart-throb Axel Kiener, and beat-perfect supporting VFX from The Mill – all pulled together by Biscuit director Steve Rogers. [Watch]
