The latest exceptional video for The School Of Life applies Alain De Botton’s bottomless wisdom to the under-appreciated emotion of envy, it’s purpose, and why we evolved it in the first place. All wonderfully packaged in the illustration and motion stylings of RCA grads Lara Lee and Hannah Jacobs. [Watch]
Stash is excited to present the online premiere of “Jailbreak,” House Special director Aaron Sorenson’s light-hearted, stop-motion wink to German Expressionism. Photographed in rich black and white, the ambitious in-house film follows the studio’s wildly successful 2015 CG short “Tale of Momentum & Inertia.” [Watch]
Mr Binns (aka London animation director and designer Daniel Binns and a director at Bristol studio Arthur Cox) uses a complex palette and simplified character design to conjure a powerful mix of melancholy and hopefulness in this animated short from a series of interview-based films on post natal depression. [Watch]
London designer, visual artist and filmmaker Fabrice Le Nezet says his new animated 3D short film “Pump” (with music by Paris electro artist Azel Phara) started as a typographic research project inspired by primitive alphabets. [Watch]
Sweeping and spectacular CG environments frame a man’s descent and return in this short called “A Drop” from Julien Vanhoenacker, a director and VFX artist working at The Post Bangkok in Thailand. [Watch]
JP Rooney, aka the Gentleman Scholar associate creative director with the ex-racing greyhound named Ghostface, channels his inner bonbon with this 3D Valentines confection full of snappy character animation. [Watch]
