Léa Esmaili & BlinkInk Go Mad for Ashnikko’s “Trinkets”

Director Léa Esmaili, freshly signed to BlinkInk last fall, lets loose her inner maniac in this bizarro mashup of live-action, CG, and stop-motion, a perfect next step in the evolving eccentricities of American singer/songwriter Ashnikko. [Watch]

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XK studio Sculpts the Hyperreal for L’Oréal

Directors Alexa Sirbu and Lukas Vojir at XK studio in London (whose work we track here), deploy an array of CG techniques to showcase the key natural ingredients found in the L’Oréal Professionnel Metal Detox Collection. [Watch]

Julia Schimautz Keeps it Lyrical for Pulp’s “Tina” Music Video

Designer/printmaker Julia Schimautz at DTAN Studio in Berlin and newly-launched Gaussian Studio (aka Ines Soutschka and Jessica Barraclough) team on this wonderfully tactile lyric video for “Tina”, a track off Pulp’s first album in 24 years. [Watch]

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Anthony Dickenson and 1stAveMachine Unfold “Soft Gradient Beckons” for Rival Consoles

Join 1stAveMachine director Anthony Dickenson as he assembles 5,000 hand-painted frames into a mesmeric music video for London-based electronic musician Rival Consoles (aka Ryan Lee West). The in-depth BTS starts at 3:00. [Watch]

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Michael Fragstein Goes “Off the Grid” in New JJ Whitefield Music Video

Stuttgart-based director and CG artist Michael Fragstein merges the organic and the structural in this hypnotic and tactile CG music video for the track “Off the Grid” from German guitarist/producer JJ Whitefield. [Watch]