German director Zoran Bihac pushes just about every uncomfortable button possible in this darkly comic/insane new video for Rammstein lead singer Till Lindemann. Words can’t really do it justice. Just watch (if you dare). [Watch]
One of our most diverse and striking issues to date, Stash 111 delivers wall-to-wall motion brilliance adding yet another 31 animation, VFX and motion design projects to the Stash Permanent Collection. [Watch]
Stop motion = labor-intensive. Rotoscoping = laborious. Stop motion + Rotoscoping + string art = unusual cruelty. LA composer/producer/art director/songwriter Nathan Johnson takes you thru the trials, pain and physical dangers of his roto-motion-string art video for the “Change is Everything” track by Son Lux produced thru The Made Shop. [Watch]
Back in March French filmmaker Sylvain Chomet (The Illusionist, Triplets of Belleville) surprised us with a couch gag for the Simpsons skewering his fellow Gauls. Now the three-time Oscar-nominated animator/director/comic artist takes on the evils of social media in a reworking of the “Habanera” from Bizet’s opera “Carmen” by Belgian pop-star Stromae. [Watch]
Montreal writing, directing and producing duo Mihai Wilson and Marcella Moser (aka WeWereMonkeys) bring their signature talent for stark VFX and intense levels of detail to this psychotropic, Medusa-gone-wild music video for NY rapper/songwriter Azealia Banks called “Ice Princess.” [Watch]
French director/designer Alice Saey just won the HAFFTube! award at the Holland Animation Film Festival with this deranged mix of hair, fire and synchronized swimming for Dutch rockers Shaking Godspeed. [Watch]
