Paris-based director Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka weaves rotoscoped dancers into a surreal and “tender metaphor of a city and a world, where many love stories remain prohibited because of homophobia, xenophobia and any form of racism.” [Watch]
In this video for “Whodat” by New Orleans band Nola is Calling, French graphic designer/illustrator/director Fanelie Muselier uses a loose and low-fi marker technique to slip between pure abstraction and rotoscoped footage of the band’s hometown. [Watch]
The Japanese animator known as Que unleashes his talent for the surreal and ephemeral to conjure a fluid, dream-like music video for “Creation” by J-Pop artist Pop Never Dies. [Watch]
Animation director Daniela Sherer in Tel Aviv animates a musical short commissioned for the Adult Swim Smalls series powered by a bitter (yet catchy) little ditty written by David Hughes and performed by Christopher Arrison and Mason Brown. [Watch]
Los Angeles post house Scissor Films provides plenty of surreal VFX enhancement for Jonah Hill’s post-party-apocalypse treatment of “Wake Up,” the latest single from Travis Scott’s third album Astroworld. [Watch]
Cool up your summer with a two-minute peek at the stellar motion design, animation, and VFX included in STASH 136 – the latest (and possibly coolest) issue of the Stash Permanent Collection. [Watch]
