Part of the visual treats displayed on a mammoth digital screen towering 104 feet over the AT&T Discovery District in Dallas, these three vibrant films were designed and animated by Lobster Studio to “celebrate the brand mood.” [Watch]
The latest evidence of Unreal Engine’s nascent take over of CG production (and a good chunk of live-action), this trance-inducing film is the result of director and music video innovator James Frost reteaming with Australian trio RÜFÜS DU SOL. [Watch]
Working with a track from David Teie (cellist, academic, and composer of music for felines), Strange Beast director Daniel Stankler fashions “a mega weird and hopefully relaxing music video for cats” thru AMV BBDO for Whiskas. [Watch]
Paris prodco Eddy and their sibling animation studio Brunch unite under directing collective Boddicker to hone a trailer packed with vicious style and hardboiled characters for the new PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) video game. [Watch]
Snappy pacing and animation combined with a concise script and densely packed design keep the energy and engagement high in this film introducing Magnati, a new payment platform serving the Middle East and Africa. [Watch]
Axis director Dana Dorian cranks the neon-tinged action dial to 11 in this snarky and rollicking trailer for the upcoming reboot of Saints Row, the action-adventure game developed by Volition and published by THQ and Deep Silver. [Watch]
Director Balázs Simon, who gave us the stunning Bronson “Heart Attack” video in 2020 and signed with Blinkink this year, spins up a whirlwind of digital fantasy in this gravity-free adventure for Bastille’s new single “Thelma & Louise”. [Watch]
Los Angeles director/designer and artist Fons Schiedon boils up a heady mix of disorientation and quasi-psychedelics in this new work – laced with CG and low-fi VFX – for Brooklyn band Geese. [Watch]
South Korean studio Super Very More pulls together a multi-faceted production including live-action, motion capture, and 2D animation by Studio Pivote for this music video promoting the world championship of Summoners War, an online fantasy RPG with over 100 million players. [Watch]
The second season of See, the Apple TV+ sci-fi drama set in a post-virus world where humans are left sightless, opens with this sinuous and sinister sequence crafted by director John Likens and the crew at Method Studios. [Watch]
Director Ilya Abulkhanov and The Mill conjure a grand and atmospheric intro of the Witch Queen for the next expansion of Bungie’s free-to-play online multiplayer first-person shooter Destiny 2 launching February 2022. [Watch]
In their latest series title sequence, Patrick Clair and Raoul Marks at Antibody deploy machine learning software to visualize “a sticky, insidious paradise where shimmering sunshine seduces you into a world of dark hearts and exploitation.” [Watch]
UK train operator Avanti West Coast welcomes passengers back with a pixel-perfect rollerblading turtle courtesy of MJZ director Tom Kuntz and London VFX force Untold Studios (the creative pairing who brought us this comedy epic for Hornbach). [Watch]
Conceived as a data visualization research project by the Media.Work team, Bots soon evolved into an “exploration of evolution in a digital environment” complete with minimalist robots interacting with each other and the environment. [Watch]