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Working through the Melbourne studio of Passion Pictures, London-based directing duo McBess & Simon apply their cheeky animation stylings to an online series of cheery yet sardonic “Friendless Fairytales” for Pfizer thru Sydney agency WiTH Collective. [Watch]
The best advertising case study we’ve seen in several years, this 90-second clip details “Impossible Game,” an innovative and ambitious project from agency TBWA\Paris designed to help France’s national state-owned railway find extraordinary engineering talent. Client: SNCF Agency: TBWA\Paris [Watch]
Spike Jonze contravenes all the established rules of fragrance promotion (elegance, sexiness, passive femininity) in this frenetic four-minute slice of branded content for KENZO WORLD starring actress/dancer Margaret Qualley with supporting VFX by Digital Domain. [Watch]
Directed and created by weareseventeen’s Jesper Lindborg, this near-full-CG music video for the mystery music duo Kids of the Apocalypse finds “kids taking refuge in a once-flourishing American high school where psychoactive fumes are blurring the boundaries of reality. Where the wild is fusing with the digital.” [Watch]
Like vinyl records, stop-motion animation refuses to be replaced by more practical and efficient digital alternatives. Join UK filmmaker Vugar Efendi on his tour back thru 39 films and 116 years of hand-crafted frame-by-frame magic.
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The off kilter music and lyrics of Japanese singer-songwriter (and hairdresser) Uri Nakayama finds a perfect mate in the playful, unstructured and unpredictable visual talents of Berlin-based artist/director Hoji Tsuchiya in this track called “Spring Time-old Man.” [Watch]
Pixelar is a modular animated pixel typeface. The characters are constructed from 50 unique animated squares. These animated squares can also be used to construct your own typography, pixel-art or transitions. [Watch]
Discovering new animation work from French directing duo Mrzyk & Moriceau is always a treat as it guarantees trippy, often outrageous imagery held together by a certain subversive sense of abandon. [Watch]
The immediate success of Overwatch, Blizzard’s team-based multiplayer first-person shooter (and the company’s first new gaming franchise since StarCraft in 1998), is due in large part to a series of spectacular animated short films. [Watch]
At the PromaxBDA conference in June, I lead off my annual State of Design session with a 60-second mini-masterpiece of character and VFX called “You’re alive. Do you remember?” created by Berlin agency Heimat for European DIY superstore chain Hornbach. [Watch]
Sleek compositions and fluid transitions rendered in a minimal palette drawn from France’s Tricolor flag distinguish H5’s online video animated at Studio Wanda in Paris for Dior’s Eau Sauvage men’s fragrance first introduced in 1966. [Watch]
Dark and painterly vignettes from Mill+ open director Michael John Warren’s new Netflix doc series ‘Fearless’ which takes viewers deep into Brazilian bull riding culture and tracks the riders on their quest from Sao Paulo to the world championships in Las Vegas. [Watch]
The sweetest animation you’ll see today is this PSA/short called “Sometimes I Stutter,” created by Belgian freelance designer and animator Gilles Desmadrille during his Graphic Design studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. [Watch]
If the incessantly upbeat drone of the media world has you staring at the clock and thinking about the bar, join us as we slip into the dark and refreshingly bullshit-free world of the musician and visual artist known as Denial of Service. [Watch]
