Psyop directors Todd Mueller and Kylie Matulick ramp up the fun and mischief in this launch film for the latest entry in Ubisoft’s Anno game franchise while blurring the line between “cinematic quality and gameplay integrity”. [Watch]
Directors Ralph Karam, HanzoHanzo (Hans-Christoph Schultheiss), and the Le Cube animation crew help Tencent launch the Dungeon Fighter Mobile game with a series of intense trailers including this one highlighting the Asura character. [Watch]
Zack Lydon, the Seattle-based animator/illustrator who brought us this playfully violent Valentines treat, re-teams with the Risograph specialists at Zine Hug for a rampaging tribute to Eiichiro Oda’s manga series One Piece. [Watch]
Fresh off a stellar run on the festival circuit (150+ official selections with 47 awards AND Oscar short-listed), A Kind of Testament is the first short film from French illustrator/comic book artist Stephen Vuillemin. [Watch]
Chu-Chieh Lee, a Taiwanese animation director/illustrator based in London, just dropped us her multi-award-winning graduate short film Minus Plus Multiply, an ambitious multi-media blend of 2D animation and stop-motion pottery. [Watch]
Golden Wolf ECD Stefan Falconer (whose multi-media madness we track here) energizes the launch of the Coca-Cola Frozen slushy with a chaotic, rapid-fire take on the cranial phenomenon of sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, aka brain freeze. [Watch]