Emory Douglas: The Art of The Black Panthers

Revealing interview with Emory Douglas, the art director, designer, and main illustrator for The Black Panther newspaper during the 1960s and 1970s. Introduced to graphic design working in the print shop during juvenile detention, Douglas rose to become the Panthers’ Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture [Watch]

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S&P Capital IQ “The Power to Capitalize”

An assertive script from Mullen combined with clean and stylish execution from the Royale crew elevates this corporate piece for multinational financial info provider S&P Capital IQ called “The Power to Capitalize” above the fray. [Watch]

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Jack of All Trades in “The Butcher”

Director Romain Borrel and the crew at Cirkus in New Zealand show off their character design/animation skills as well as a preference for extreme cartoon mayhem in “The Butcher,” the second episode of their Jack of All Trades series. [Watch]

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Imaginary Forces “The Mad Men Mashup”

Imaginary Forces marks the end of AMC’s Mad Men with an assembly of the many parodies and tributes inspired by their groundbreaking opening sequence which first aired on July 19, 2007 and won the 2008 Emmy Award for Outstanding Title Design. [Watch]

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt “A Night to Remember” from DIGIC

Moments like the one seen above, found in the teaser called “A Night to Remember” for CD PROJEKT’s long-anticipated game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, is why we rank Budapest’s DIGIC Pictures as one of the top three game cinematic studios on the planet. [Watch]

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Treat Studios’ Adult Swim IDs. Yikes.

If there’s one thing to learn from Adult Swim IDs it’s never underestimate the power of shock tempered with humor. Case in point: This new batch of idents from Treat Studios in London built around a theme of transformation. [Watch]

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Mat Collishaw’s Insane 3D-printed Zoetrope

UK artist Mat Collishaw teams with fellow Londoner Sebastian Burdon (who handled the 3D modeling and animation) to create a mesmerizing and impossibly detailed 3D-printed zoetrope composed of over 350 character figures plus props and environmental elements. [Watch]

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Making LEGO’s “Adventure in the City”

Snappy and detailed look at the production of “Adventure in the City,” a crazy-ambitious stop motion mini-epic created for LEGO China from hundreds of thousands of real LEGO bricks (and a boy in a snake suit) by Dutch director/writer/animator Rogier Wieland and his intrepid crew thru AKQA Shanghai. [Watch]

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Passion Paris: League of Legends “Seconds”

A blast of intense time-jumping action for your Wednesday morning introducing a new League of Legends champion, Ekko: The Boy Who Shattered Time. Created for RIOT Games by Passion Paris directors Arnaud & Jerome and their long-time collaborator Pascal Charrue (a co-founder of Fortiche Production). [Watch]

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Brand New School Sparks More Wonder for Oreo

Creative Director Dennis Go and the Brand New School crew keep the Oreo fun alive in this newest spot called Oreo “Spark Some Wonder” thru The Martin Agency. [Watch]

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Mécanique Générale: “Martell Tricentenaire”

Paris 3D masters Mécanique Générale and TBWA\Paris help the Martell family celebrate “300 years of turning Cognac into art” with this intricate and ambitious single-shot look at the company and its legacy. [Watch]

Making Son Lux’s “Change is Everything” video

Stop motion = labor-intensive. Rotoscoping = laborious. Stop motion + Rotoscoping + string art = unusual cruelty. LA composer/producer/art director/songwriter Nathan Johnson takes you thru the trials, pain and physical dangers of his roto-motion-string art video for the “Change is Everything” track by Son Lux produced thru The Made Shop. [Watch]

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Particularly Disturbing Particles: “Granularity (video edit)”

CG humans constructed of particles (often rendered as liquid of some kind) are common enough to qualify as their own genre. And while many of those projects get high marks for technical proficiency, few if any have elicited an emotional response close to the disturbing melancholy invoked by this unrelenting monochrome opus called “Granularity (video edit)” by the London musician and visual artist known as Redhoot. [Watch]

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Camp Jefferson: Koodo “Free refills”

If we leave aside the question of whether an “honest and fair” phone company is even a possibility, this new spot from the recent Koodo campaign thru new Toronto agency Camp Jefferson packs lots of bonkers multimedia into 30 seconds. [Watch]