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Behind the Vision of Dolby Atmos

Post and VFX work from New York’s Artjail offers perfect support to Heat‘s elevated copywriting and the meticulous high-speed footage shot by Park Pictures director Terri Timely in this new :45 for Dolby’s Atmos surround sound technology. [Watch]

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Are You Ready for Transhumanism?

Director Patrick Clair and the Elastic crew team with 72andSunny to compile a convincing news montage stretching 50 years into the future creating an unnerving back story for Activision’s Call of Duty franchise in prep for the release of “Black Ops III” this fall. [Watch]

Explaining What Not to Recycle in Québec

Montreal VFX and animation studio Shed and agency Cart1er turn the decidedly unglamorous challenge of informing fellow Quebecois about the don’ts of recycling into a fun, snappy and informative :30. [Watch]

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Sneaker Porn Round Up

Three different approaches to making athletic footwear visually sexy by treating them as wearable sculptures and technological wonders, courtesy of the talented teams at ManvsMachine, Aggressive and Trollbäck. [Watch]

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Art&Graft Studio Film: “The Walk”

London motion studio Art&Graft just sent us their latest in-house animated short “The Walk.” Marked by a peaceful/atmospheric tone and meticulous palette, the film “about the simple pleasure of putting one foot in front of the other” was inspired by the spectacular Lake District in the North-west of England. [Watch]

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weareseventeen: All 4 Platform Identity

London design and motion studio weareseventeen recently won a competitive pitch to develop and produce the on-screen identity for the launch of All 4; Channel 4’s new destination for all their linear and on-demand content including this series of eclectic and fun animated pre-rolls created in concert with 4creative. [Watch]

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Replacing Noise with Narrative: Explaining Stampsy.com

Striking and surreal launch video for photo/narrative sharing platform Stampsy.com, art directed and produced by Brooklyn’s Hugo & Marie, designed and illustrated by The Six & Five Studio in Buenos Aires, with animation by Slovenian freelance digital creative Nejc Polovsak (aka Twistedpoly). [Watch]

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ChezEddy + Stories AG: Triumph “Find the One”

Paris animation studio ChezEddy and multiple-Tony-winning American composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown channel the wide-eyed exuberance of the Disney princess genre for UK women’s lingerie maker Triumph in this 3D spectacular starring upcoming modeling phenom Hannah Ferguson. [Watch]

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Imaginary Forces + Droga5: Netflix Australia “Spectrum”

Imaginary Forces CDs Charles Khoury and Tosh Kodama conjure a sombre and tactile intro sequence for an interactive video from Netflix Australia called “Spectrum” which promises to help you “discover your shade of story.” [Watch]

Buck Bakes Up McDonald’s “Muffins”

Buck continues their string of character-driven charmers for McDonald’s with a 3D romp including the world’s yummiest-looking CG blueberry muffin, all fresh from ECD Ryan Honey and crew thru Cossette Chicago. [Watch]

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Behind the Scenes of Cycle Canada “Hop On”

Discover how Sons and Daughters director/DOP Mark Zibert and Toronto post/animation/design house Alter Ego seamlessly combine an array of VFX techniques to create riveting but rider-less action in this spot for Cycle Canada, the center piece of a national campaign. [Watch]

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Spectacular MacLaren 570s from Dom & Nic and MPC

Outsider directors Dom & Nic: “After researching the feasibility of shooting a real black swan it became clear the best way forward for this film was to create it entirely in CG [but] we wanted to approach it with the same mentality and process that we would do a live action shoot. [Watch]

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Animade + Build: Virgin America Avatar GIFS

Smile-inducing character GIFs to cheer up your Monday morning (used across the Virgin America universe including the website, email newsletters and internal presentations) from the all-London team of design consultancy Build and animation/interactive studio Animade. [Watch]

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Patrick Clair Opens Marvel’s “Daredevil” on Netflix

Elastic director/CD Patrick Clair‘s reputation as the go-to TV titles guy continues to grow with this brooding, scarlet-soaked effort created for Marvel’s “Daredevil” series premiering this week on Netflix. [Watch]