Our first nominee for the “Best COVID-related Creative” award goes to Canadian discount grocery chain No Frills for this PSA/music video by the all-Toronto team of VFX shop The Vanity, audio collective SNDWRx, and agency John St. [Watch]
Art directors/motion designers Swann and Yoann Chesnel (aka Thanksbro) in Paris: “On lockdown, we took advantage of our free time to plunge into our old travel pictures. From them was born the idea to tell a story from visual universes.” [Watch]
Director/animator DeeKay Kwon: “Jack, Paul, and I left New York for California to work on some gigs then Covid-19 happened. We are roomies in one tiny apartment and stuck here for the time being. So I decided to make some fun animation about our days.” [Watch]
Kristen Cudmore, composer/vocals/guitars with Canadian art-pop band Language Arts: “It was Jan 28th, 2010, when I got up at 4am to drive to the ferry from Vancouver to Victoria, to go adopt my dear companion, Sprout. [Watch]
Masayoshi Nakamura (aka Good General) is a NY-based art director/animator from Japan: “This is an animated PSA for the non-profit organization Fellow Americans calling to stop climate change. [Watch]
From Device in Barcelona: “[This] is one of the videos we made for Evermind, the new app developed by Alpha focused on teaching professional teams how to achieve a higher living quality by reducing their levels of stress. [Watch]