After a stellar festival run (150 selections and 46 awards), directors Leo Brunel, Loris Cavalier, Camille Jalabert, and Oscar Malet unveil their CG comedy about a back-country ski rescue gone very, very wrong. [Watch]
Illustrator/director David Coleman teams with Pure Imagination Studios and Zebu Animation for this mash-up of country music and LEGO ninja action in the music video for Chris Stapleton’s “Second One To Know”. [Watch]
UK VFX powerhouse Electric Theatre Collective creates a cast of toys and tchotchkes revealing the hard truth about a family’s home in IKEA’s first Christmas spot courtesy of MJZ director Tom Kuntz and Mother London. [Watch]
Co-directors Anna Samo and Lisa LaBracio: “A classroom erupts into a war of words as students grapple with a seemingly simple prompt: what is the opposite of a gun? [Watch]
Mateusz Kozlowski, an animation artist/designer in Gdansk, Poland, creates an appropriately surreal and surprisingly emotional CG dream for a track by Polish electronic artist New Rome (aka Tomasz Bednarczyk). [Watch]
Veteran filmmaker/animator Carlos Baena (whose extensive feature credits include Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, and Toy Story 3) based this personal short film on struggles with a dark emotional situation in his own life. [Watch]
