Russian visual artist and motion designer Maxim Zhestkov employs dynamics, tension, and various forces of nature to wrangle two billion elements into a pristine 3D gallery of kinetic art installations. [Watch]
Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts and the Framestore VFX team lubricate this massive new trailer for Destiny 2 with just enough smart-ass comedy to attract new players while keeping hardcore fans firmly in hand. [Watch]
If your creative team members are scattered around the country or across continents, you know keeping everyone on the same page is a major challenge. And that’s exactly why Sandip Patel and his team built Cage. [Watch]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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, 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]
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]
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]
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]