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]
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]
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]
Partizan director Antoine Bardou Jacquet, Paris VFX masters Mathematic and agency BETC exploit your expectations of well-worn sci-fi tropes to jolt the Cube S set-top box from Canal+ into your consciousness. [Watch]
London animation and illustration studio Moth Collective combines both those talents into a powerful promo for the 130-year old American charity HIAS who work “to address the global refugee crisis by protecting refugees and displaced persons throughout the world and helping them to build new lives in safety and with dignity.” [Watch]
