The Evolution of the Ugly Project

The expansion of the so-bad-it’s-good 3D sub-genre continues unabated with the latest addition to Redbear Easterman and Nikita Diakur’s Ugly Project – 50 seconds of spasmodic, busted, and ultimately smile-worthy dancing in a parking lot. [Watch]

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Dissolve: This Is a Generic Millennial Ad

Back in 2014 stock house Dissolve released “This Is a Generic Brand Video” to well-deserved acclaim. Their newest poke at advertising tropes takes aim at tone-deaf marketers targeting humans born between 1980 and 2000. [Watch]

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Patrick Clair Opens “The Defenders” for Marvel

Elastic director Patrick Clair fuses Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist into the fabric of the city they are each determined to save in the opening titles of Marvel’s The Defenders miniseries on Netflix. [Watch]

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Eli Guillou Finds “The Light in the Dark”

Wise words, austere visuals, and heart-felt narration conjure a surprisingly complex array of emotions in Eli Guillou’s film “The Light in the Dark” created during his senior year at SCAD. [Watch]

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The Gorburger Show Graphics Montage

Since the launch of The Gorburger Show on Comedy Central in April 2017, partners John Cranston and Ryan McNeely and their crew at Los Angeles creative house Visual Creatures have slathered the erratic talk/variety show in a delightful array of cheeseball-flavored maximalist graphics. [Watch]

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Wei-Shen Wang “Dreaming”

Wei-Shen Wang, a Taiwanese illustrator/motion designer, created his beguiling thesis film “Dreaming” for the Master of Fine Arts in Motion Media Design program at Savannah College of Art and Design. [Watch]

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Beats meet Burrito in Chipotle SAVOR.WAVS

Prettybird director Rami Hachache, Paris CG and VFX studio Mathematic, and Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA elevate CAA’s SAVOR.WAVS campaign for Chipotle with a nice mix of style and wit. [Watch]

Ben Smith Directs Sci-fi Short “Product Recall”

Ben Smith, ECD and director at The Mill in New York, chronicles the merging of matter and madness after a physicist working with the Large Hadron Collider makes a shocking discovery. [Watch]

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Naghmeh Farzaneh’s “Scent of Geranium”

Naghmeh Farzaneh, an Iranian filmmaker and animator based in Chicago, captures the overwhelming emotion and surprising details involved in her immigration to the US in this starkly rendered and deeply personal film. [Watch]

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Pete Candeland Captures “Finlandia Flavours”

Succulent and surreal CG work from Electric Theatre Collective elevates director Pete Candeland’s new work for Finlandia Vodka above and beyond the call for Wieden+Kennedy. [Watch]

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Six Spaces by Six N. Five for SPACE10

Barcelona art and design duo Six N. Five (aka Andy Reisinger and Ezequiel Pini) bring their pristine but playful aesthetic to this series of six clips for a SPACE10 pop-up exhibit in London “exploring the spaces of tomorrow.” [Watch]

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Android 8.0 Oreo Superhero Arrives Courtesy of Psyop

In the start of a global love-fest between Oreo and Google, the newest version of the Android operating system will be named after the world’s most recognizable cookie – complete with an Android Oreo superhero. [Watch]

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Elliot Lim invites You to the New York State Fair

In September 1841 America’s first state fair was held in Syracuse, New York. This fall the Great New York State Fair will host over a million visitors with the help of this promo from Not To Scale director Elliot Lim. [Watch]

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Dancing with Cranes in a Bamboo Forest

Moscow production and VFX house Revolution Studio tease an unnamed new project with the release of this stunning all-CG clip of Japanese red crown cranes dancing in a verdant bamboo forest. [Watch]