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May 13, 2025
Creative Director Duncan Elms at Elastic in LA: “The series had six episodes with the themes, Alien life, Time Travel, Space Exploration, Dark Futures, Intelligent Machines, and Monsters. [Watch]
Blinkink director Nicos Livesey and The London Embroidery Studio transform 227,000 meters of thread into 600+ frames of animated tapestry in this formidable launch spot for the BBC’s coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup from Russia. [Watch]
Melbourne visual artist Alex Popescu, nudges the boundaries of filmmaking forward crafting this enigmatic music video for Seattle artist LEViT∆TE using realtime 3D rendering technology. [Watch]
“Darrel,” the animated black comedy short by Spanish co-directors Marc Briones and Alan Carabantes, chronicles the ill-fated flirtations of two luckless chameleons waiting for the subway. [Watch]
Discover the deeper meanings of young love, meatballs, and the danger of open flames at dinner in “Grandma’s Spaghetti,” a raving piece of CG madness directed Roy Nieterau and Danny Vos at Dutch 3D animation studio Colorbleed. [Watch]
In July 2010, Stash published an 11-minute spec pilot for a kids animated TV series called “Gluko & Lennon” and I remember thinking, “this is way too insane/genius to ever get a green light.” Fortunately, I was wrong. [Watch]
Arts & Sciences director Michael Illick gives pharma ads a much-deserved poke in this bonkers parody for POM Wonderful featuring a practical dolphin with digital VFX support from Carbon. [Watch]
London illustrator and animation director Joseph Melhuish: “VICE invited me to make three short films documenting stories from behind the scenes of some of their most notorious documentaries.” [Watch]
The 2018 Google I/O conference keynote opened with this immense yet lovable animated film that Nexus director Fx Goby describes as “a story about the power of a community working together to make good things.” [Watch]
Matt Greenwood, animator, motion designer, and creative director at Nice Shoes in Toronto on his new personal project debuted at Pictoplasma 2018: “I made Final_Final with no script or planning. Each day I picked up where I left off and it evolved into a cast of shiny characters.” [Watch]
Lobo director Mateus de Paula Santos illustrates the soul-sucking nature of our screen habit in this film for lilspace, an app that rewards users for unplugging. [Watch]
The intricate, illustrative style perfected by the Tulips and Chimneys studio in Cape Town, South Africa proves a perfect match for Hendrick’s Gin’s eccentric branding. [Watch]
Director/animator Alex Grigg interprets the words of comedian and The Daily Show host Trevor Noah into an intriguing Cubist-flavored film for WeTransfer’s WePresent series.
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World Cup 2018 ad fever begins with this massive spot by RSA director Jake Scott and Manhattan VFX house Blacksmith dispatching beer delivery drones to soccer fans around the planet including Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. [Watch]
