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
In Part 3 of his guest editorial series We Love Pitching, Nerdo ECD Claus Cibils continues his surgical (and passionate) dissection of the creative pitch process with an examination of why more is not always better. [Watch]
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
Spotify’s suite of Mix tools (that allow users to transform playlists into seamless DJ sets by accessing producer-level track data), gets a retro 2D airbrush vibe in this new product film from the BUCK team. [Watch]
If you need something unexpected and unexplainable to break you out of a creative rut, a quick shot of this short film/music video – a delirious riot by Japanese animator Yoko Yuki – maybe the jump start you’re looking for. [Watch]
The team at London 3D and motion house Bolder are rightfully celebrating 20 years in a tough business with an ambitious rebrand in collab with UK studio Monday Nights and anchored by these launch and manifesto films. [Watch]