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Ariel Costa: Green Day “Bang Bang”

In direct contrast to his restrained and tasteful short film “Sins,” Los Angeles director, designer, animator Ariel Costa amps up his signature collage kinetics into a rough-and-ready promo for Green Day’s newest called “Bang Bang.” [Watch]

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Buck and The Barbarian Group: IBM “CDS Launch”

How do you sustain viewer interest for 75 seconds when you’re launching a product as dry and abstract as cloud data services for a company as massive and straight-laced as IBM? Like this… [Watch]

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DixonBaxi Takes on the Premier League

London motion mavens DixonBaxi rethink how the Premier League connects with its two billion football fans, constructing a striking and expansive new broadcast packaging including show titles, in-match graphics, augmented-reality, touch-screen, studio graphics, and soundtrack. [Watch]

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“The Biggest Story” Chapter 1

Commissioned by a not-for-profit Christian ministry to promote a book by Kevin DeYoung, this vibrant and detail-rich sequence from the team of Vancouver animator/CD Jorge Rolando Canedo Estrada (aka Jr.canest) and Seattle illustrator/designer Don Clark will appeal to both believers and heretics alike. [Watch]

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Beautifiul and Brutal: Watch Howie Shia’s “BAM”

Toronto-based Canadian animator/illustrator Howie Shia’s riveting and visceral adaptation of the myth of Hercules tells the story of “a young boxer struggling to negotiate between his shy, bookish nature and a divinely violent temper.” [Watch]

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Style and Style Frames from STATE Design’s “Statement”

LA studio STATE Design celebrates its third year with a new space, new website and this animated self-promo piece showcasing the company’s diverse range of talents and extolling their boutique values. Have a look at some of the development art as well as the finished piece. [Watch]

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Giant Ant: Caught in Slack “Traffic”

The team at Giant Ant in Vancouver take their latest open brief from Slack deep into bright-and-happy land via this bouncy 3D mini-opus, with post-production from The Sequence Group, and music/sound design from Antfood. [Watch]

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Inspired Style Frames Channel the Spirit of Brazil

Gabriela Badillo and Enrique Sañudo at design and animation studio COMBO, conjure a welcome mix of graphic elegance and vibrant joy in this pitch to Mexican Channel TV Claro Sports for a broadcast ID promoting the broadcaster’s coverage of the 2016 Olympics in Rio. [Watch]

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Daniels and The Mill for Nike “Unlimited You”

What’s the secret to punching out of the Rio Olympics ad barrage? Start with a killer script from W+K Portland calling for A-list sports celebs, hire Prettybird directing duo DANIELS to shoot it, hand the footage to editor Angus Wall at Rock Paper Scissors, then let The Mill handle VFX and grade. [Watch]

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PES: Honda “The Power Of Ridgeline”

In direct contrast to his last Honda spot – the massively complex table-top adventure called “Paper” – Oscar-nominated stop motion maven Adam Pesapane (aka PES) invades the Esther Williams Stage at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City constructing five life-size sets in this new 60-second opus for the 2017 Honda Ridgeline. [Watch]

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Blacklist and Golden Wolf Unleash Mirinda x 2

Two sweet pieces of absurdist eye candy animated by London’s Golden Wolf driving the “sensory overload” behind The Barbarian Group’s new campaign for international beverage brand Mirinda, produced through Blacklist in New York. [Watch]

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AG Rojas and MPC: Samsung “Surf – The Snail”

Inspirational copy over footage of fearless young athletes is not new. Neither are photo-real CG snails. But this rousing spot for Samsung from Park Pictures director AG Rojas with VFX and grade from MPC LA combines both elements (plus original music from Barking Owl) into something fresh and invigorating. [Watch]

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Gerhard Human: Raffertie “Last Train Home”

Like the best cult graphic novels, Gerhard Human’s personal spec music video for “Last Train Home” by Raffertie (aka London composer/producer Benjamin Stefanski) uses haunted characters to reveal it’s sinister and enigmatic narrative. [Watch]

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Aardman and NSPCC “Talk PANTS”

Animation director Lucy Izzard, the Aardman crew and Adelphoi Music channel the style and tone of a bouncy pre-school video to get parents talking to their 4-8 year-olds about sexual abuse in this work for UK charity NSPCC. [Watch]