Arc Meets Story: Brent Bonacorso Boards a Menagerie for Cathay Pacific Cargo

In his latest integration of AI into mainstream commercial production, director Brent Bonacorso uses generative tools to create the raw footage with compositing, clean-up, and color handled with traditional post tools. [Watch]

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CLAN & AVE Chicken Out for BetBoom Esports

In a refreshing break from heroic esports tropes, director Anton Shavkero and CLAN join forces with CG studio AVE to push your occipital lobe past capacity in this deranged showcase for the BetBoom Esports team players. [Watch]

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Fast & Fearless: Nike’s Nine Football Nightmares

Nike Football’s massive new SCARY GOOD campaign drops with nine mock-horror films from nine Prodco directors and a half dozen post/VFX studios to celebrate the “creative, fearless play” of the sport’s top players. [Watch]

The Choreography of Combustion: Digital Kitchen Opens “Smoke” on Apple TV+

Following on their standout titles for Yellowjackets, the Digital Kitchen team conjure more mystery and intrigue with this open they describe as a “forensic puzzle told through fire” for the Apple TV+ crime drama miniseries Smoke. [Watch]

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Covert & Eric Lynne Conjure Boss Chaos for Lenovo Legion

The crew at London VFX/post shop Covert delivers 70 shots of boss-inspired mayhem in this Lenovo Legion campaign directed by Eric Lynne at A Running Commentary and designed to “celebrate the resilient spirit of gamers”. [Watch]

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Dancing With Myself: Okto the Octopus Oscillates for BMW

In one of the most technically impressive and fun CG creature performances you will see this year, the animation and VFX teams at Untold Studios and Parasol Island deliver a cephalopodic waltz for BMW thru agency Jung von Matt. [Watch]