Director Pedro Conti and his design and animation crew at Flooul Animation in São Paulo, Brazil, just released their new passion project, a short film full of heart and atmosphere called Tamo Junto (Together). [Watch]
CD Sergio Saleh and the motion team at Lumbre in Buenos Aires unleash their CG talents in this intricate feast for the senses featuring the 2021 vintages from California’s Ménage à Trois winery. [Watch]
VFX supervisors Adam Droy and Pete Hodsman lead The Mill creature crew into a holiday adventure in bipolar hyena hilarity with Blur Films director Chris Balmond for Amazon Prime. [Watch]
Ross Sneddon (aka, lead motion designer at Revenant in Glasgow) just dropped us his latest personal film that he describes as a “bleak and familiar future, where instead of tackling world issues, we turn a blind eye and hide away entirely.” [Watch]
A big hit on the festival circuit, “Les Dieux Changeants” (The Changing Gods) by Italian artist/director/composer Lucio Arese weaves Chopin and the destruction of beautifully lit classical statues into three minutes of CG poetry. [Watch]
Milan-based director/animator Margherita Premuroso (also a CD for Elastic.tv) worked with Italian broadcaster RAI and the Torino Film Festival to create an unsettling and enigmatic tone for the event’s Paranormal program. [Watch]
Madrid CG design studio Pleid St. fashions a series of three intensely intricate brand films for venerable Dutch fabric company Vlisco, whose products have been inspired by Africa since 1846. [Watch]
Buenos Aires studio Clubcamping, who dropped this animated sparkler for Porsche back in September, just released an in-house piece of psychotropic fun that will help relieve your Christmas ad overload for the next few minutes. [Watch]
In a nice contrast to the wealth of CG holiday work, Strange Beast directing duo Tjoff Koong wrangle a flurry of magical socks for Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London to help seriously ill kids spend Christmas at home with their families. [Watch]
The creative and production teams behind IGA’s standout 2019 holiday film “Inseparables” regroup for another animated heartwarmer for the grocery chain, this time fusing food, family, and hockey into a very Canadian tale. [Watch]
A powerful allegory about the plight of climate refugees, the multi-award-winning and Oscar-eligible CG short film “Migrants” was directed by five 5th year students at PÔLE 3D, an animation school based in Roubaix, France. [Watch]
Inspired by an exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay on various forms of prostitution in Paris in the last half of the 19th century, five GOBELINS animation grad students craft a harrowing tale of a young ballerina in 1895. [Watch]
Hornet director Ariel Costa pours his trademark collage talents into this atmospheric, jewel-toned spot for Sazerac’s small-batch bourbon whiskey brand 1792 thru agency The Buntin Group. [Watch]
Ten years after completing his culture-shifting stop-motion spot “Back to the Start” for Chipotle, Nexus director Johnny Kelly helms a sequel – updating and extending the conversation around sustainable farming for a more complex time. [Watch]