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Crowd Meets Physics: Hilarity Ensues

When VFX artist Dave Fothergill released “I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!” last year, the world suddenly realized 3D crowd dynamics could create more than rampaging hordes of Orcs and zombies: it could be funny. [Watch]

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Buck Versus Nike Hypervenom

The Buck crew help Wieden+Kennedy break Nike out of the footwear industry’s recent (and spectacular) CG habit with these two short blasts of extreme 2D action for Hypervenom soccer boots as worn by Brazil’s captain Neymar Jr. and Poland’s captain Robert Lewandowski. [Watch]

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Angry Birds 2: Bigger. Badder. Birdier.

Six years, 13 spinoffs and 1.4 billion downloads later, Rovio and Wieden+Kennedy London launch Angry Birds 2 with a completely mad porcine action/comedy created by Riff Raff director Francois Rousselet and the VFX crew at The Mill. [Watch]

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Finlandia “1000 Years of Less Ordinary Wisdom”

Riveting 2.5 minute centerpiece for the new Finlandia “1000 Years of Less Ordinary Wisdom” campaign by Knucklehead Director Siri Bunford thru Wieden+Kennedy London. Killer cut by Xavier Perkins (Lucky Cat) and Adam Marshall (Whitehouse Post) with MPC providing Flame work and grade. [Watch]

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on Longevity

Elegant and quietly emotional visual essay by SVA student Enle Li based on a Business Insider interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson about our fixation on longevity and how it distracts us from living a full life. [Watch]

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Augmented Canine-reality for Coke “Man and Dog”

Psyop directors Todd Mueller and Kylie Matulick combine a taste of Disney’s “Lady and the Tramp” with hyper-enhanced dog-vision in this rollicking treat, created thru Wieden+Kennedy and hand-animated by Duncan Studio in Pasadena. [Watch]

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