Take a surreal and completely mad mixed media/2D trip into the animation process with Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg student directors Alireza Hashempour and Malaeke Farhangadib in their ID for the 2015 Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film. [Watch]
Vancouver VFX house The Embassy reveal their extensive and detailed efforts behind this ambitious web film for Playmation, Disney’s new line of wearable tech toys and connected apps featuring Marvel’s Avengers and Star Wars. [Watch]
Yawen Zheng, an animation student from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, just sent us her first year film called “Every Star,” a sweet solo project about “A mysterious boy from nature who collects stars and sends them to every city child who is unable to see the stars through the foggy sky.” [Watch]
The Dvein directing crew teams with fellow Barcelonians and CG/VFX specialists Trizz, plus Madrid VFX shop Lanczos to explore the dangers of drinking extraterrestrial psychotropic fluids in this new music video for “Ghosts” from Brooklyn band Alagoas. [Watch]
London animation prodco Golden Wolf plays fast and loose with the planet’s favorite spider-bite victim and amorphous extraterrestrial parasite (aka Venom) in this frenetic blast for “Ultimate Spiderman” running on Disney XD. [Watch]
Youth Experimental Studio, a multidisciplinary graphic design firm based in Lima, Peru, roto’s up a fluid and sunny treatment for “Hickory” (Featuring Talib Kweli and Boots Riley) by San Francisco musician/author/artist Kool A.D. [Watch]