Untold Studios Adds Ben Hampshire as Executive Director in Los Angeles Studio
April 28, 2025
Passion Animation directors Kyra & Constantin, who kept tear ducts wide-open last year with this spot for Ernst, turn their talents for character and narrative to a Toyota driver who finally gives into sharing holiday joy. [Watch]
The 2021 edition of OFFF Vienna launched with this ambitious and atmospheric allegory from director Ian Bradley and the creative team at animation/VFX studio Carbon, complete with a live orchestral score by Antfood. [Watch]
In their ongoing series for Unbabel’s AI-powered translation platform, Favo Studio once again conjures visually inventive, smile-inducing content from dry information (e.g. customer service training). [Watch]
Animation director Nick Groeneveld and the creature crew at Ambassadors in Amsterdam wrangle a pair of small furry friends in this holiday charmer by Holy Fools director Jelle de Jonge for Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn. [Watch]
Fabian Aerts, the Brussel’s based director/designer who recently dropped these riveting titles and this spectacular short film, just released his latest CG opus – a fanatically detailed and abstract look at the concept of paradigms. [Watch]
Way back in primary school, UK Twitter user @DanannMcAleer penned a darkly comic John Lewis holiday spot. Fast forward 26 years, he tweets his original pitch, and the social platform turns it into a Christmas ad of their own. [Watch]
For their follow-up to last year’s ambitious work for Nespresso, CG style masters FutureDeluxe team with Stockholm digital creature specialists Fable FX to create another hyper-real and coffee-centric domestic fantasy. [Watch]
Watching a cast of eccentric and wonderfully observed apartment dwellers spiraling into chaos makes this six-minute grad film by Hochschule Luzern animation students Amélie Cochet and Louis Möhrle time well spent. [Watch]
Passion Pictures director Jon Saunders digs into a mix of anime and comic book references to evolve the look he established on the Free Fire “Project Cobra” trailer in this latest blast of action for Garena’s mobile battle royale title. [Watch]
Inspired by Sylvain Tesson’s 2019 travel memoir of stalking a snow leopard in Tibet, five GOBELINS grad students craft a stark but finely textured tale of patience, polar bears, and photography. [Watch]
As part of their Find Your Force recruiting campaign, the Royal Air Force (RAF) targets a new generation of engineers with a sweeping full-CG spot directed by Ryan Dzierzek thru London agency Engine. [Watch]
UNESCO, the United Nations agency focused on “promoting world peace and security”, is now looking out for your personal online security with a Chrome browser extension called The Cookie Factory. [Watch]
Japanese cranes stand in as elegant reindeer replacements in this warm and stylish animated Christmas campaign by Parallel Studio based on illustrations by Vincent Mahé for the French luxury fashion brand Kenzo. [Watch]
Creative director Nidia Dias and the Tendril team bust out the full CG toolkit in these two contrasting launch films for the Reno6 Jin and GenZ series phones for Chinese consumer electronics giant Oppo. [Watch]
