“Rules of Play” Short Film by Merlin Flugel
April 16, 2021
The all-Taiwan team of director/designer Audis Huang and Moonshine Animation hammered away for six weeks on this sleek and sweeping film featured during the launch event for Lenovo’s Legion gaming PCs and laptops. [Read more]
Asked by Sony Music to create something “darkly beautiful” for a track off the new Johnny Cash album featuring The Royal Philharmonic, NYC director/animator Gabriel Tick responded with this enigmatic visual poem. [Read more]
Director/animator Marc Eijkelenboom’s melancholy CG short The Iceman is a passion project based on the real-life story of Dutch extreme athlete and author Wim Hof and speaks to the power of finding opportunity in tragedy. [Read more]
Directors Kelly Meador and Daniel Elwing reflect on the compounded mistakes inherent in a murder investigation to generate amorphous and atmospheric visuals for the five-part FX docu-series A Wilderness of Error. [Read more]
Psyop directors Igor + Valentine (aka designer/animators Matt Smithson and David Stanfield) steer Lincoln in a softer direction with this languid work produced thru agency Hudson Rouge and featuring the unmistakable voice of Matthew McConaughey. [Read more]
In her first commission since signing with Nexus Studios, recent NFTS animation graduate Neeraja Raj helms an ambitious 90-second spot driving home the fact one in 10 people do not have easy access to clean drinking water. [Read more]
The centerpiece of a massive new campaign for Nestlé’s mega coffee brand, this sweeping and intricately detailed video by CG masters FutureDeluxe thru agencies McCann and Hogarth introduces the Casa Nespresso as the House of Gifting. [Read more]
Our prediction for Super Bowl LV: tears will flow… thanks to this Toyota work from Radical Media’s Tarsem Singh and the Framestore VFX crew recounting the incredible journey of Jessica Long from orphan amputee to Paralympian swimming champion. [Read more]
Determined to fight virus fatigue with absurdist comedy, New York director/animator Dante Zaballa and Welsh artist Osian Efnisien (who also collaborated on Zabella’s Doodle Project II), release a “groundbreaking documentary that nobody asked for.” [Read more]
