Director Reza Dolatabadi, Jorge Aguilera, and Ale Saevich Launch NOBORDER Studio
April 30, 2025
In December 2014, French director Loïc Bramoullé trekked solo to Myanmar to shoot reference and background plates for a short film he describes as a mix of District 9 and Ron Fricke’s 2001 Buddhist-themed documentary Samsara. [Watch]
We’ve come to expect delightfully intricate, beautifully rendered CG projects from Buenos Aires animation and design studio LUMBRE but this new in-house brand animation – assembled from unused ideas and images developed for clients – reaches a new level of impossible detail and mesmerizing motion. [Watch]
Erin Sarofsky and her Chicago motion crew push the ubiquitous design conference open into welcome new territory with this light-hearted typographic trek through 50 styles and genres while introducing 20 speakers for the 2015 edition of OFFF in Mexico City. [Watch]
Although only three years old, InlandStudio has made their mark in the crowded Buenos Aires design and animation scene with solid work for many of the region’s largest brands including this beautiful broadcast open for a Discovery Latam series showcasing engineering mega-projects in Colombia. [Watch]
Paris 3D/VFX studio Fortiche (who’s “Ekko Seconds” work for League Of Legends graced the cover of Stash 112 this summer) just released the WildStar launch cinematic, another fantasy/sci-fi MMO gaming project crammed with extreme characters, tightly choreographed action, and good fun. [Watch]
Nexus director Kibwe Tavares, who you know from his excellent big fish tale “Jonah,” turns his considerable narrative talents to the financial world in this detail-packed three-minute brand film for Umpqua Bank animated by the Nexus crew and produced thru CAA Marketing. [Watch]
How can a music video director make their low budget production punch out of the frothy torrent of visual media released everyday? The truth is (and therefore the fun is), no one has a clue. Enter Studio Smack, Floris Kaayk and their intense new work for “Witch Doctor” by Dutch alt rockers De Staat. [Watch]
Electo-diety Amon Tobin joins forces with the all-Paris team of creative agency Cream, directing collective Deluxe, and CG-masters Mathematic for this riveting and impossibly sleek reveal of the Peugeot Fractal concept vehicle which premiered at the 2015 Frankfurt Motorshow.
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Raven Kwok (aka Guo, Ruiwen) re-teams with Monstercat’s mysterious musical artist Karma Fields to create this mesmerizing, code-based generative video using Voronoi tessellation, a geometric model dating to René Descartes’ 1644 vortex theory of planetary motion. [Watch]
UK designer/animator Steve Kirby just dropped us his first animated short and our first chuckle of the day. Based on two minutes of audio from a local radio phone-in show, “If the Cuckoo Don’t Crow” captures the eccentric charm in a true story of hurricane prediction, lost tea towels and a one-earred Jack Russell. [Watch]
Check this intense blast of mechanical adrenaline called “ZERO DAY,” a stylized and stylish take on a near-future cyber-collapse courtesy of the Wisconsin wizard of CG aka Beeple (aka Mike Winkelmann) fueled by a killer track from standingwave (aka Kyle VandeSlunt). [Watch]
After a string of insanely fun video teasers, the worst-kept secret in the animation world is finally official: UK animation powerhouse Aardman has acquired a majority share in NYC animation studio Nathan Love to establish their US production entity called Aardman Nathan Love. [Watch]
Lots of innovative character work here from director Limbert Fabian (who co-directed the incredible Chipotle “Scarecrow”) and the Moonbot crew for an ambitious new Michelin campaign out of TBWA\PARIS designed “to bring Michelin’s unique tire development philosophy to life.” [Watch]
The popularity of Zoetropes is certainly linked to our current love of all things analogue: meaning handmade, warmer and somehow more honest. But now that TBWA Singapore and Airbnb have created this 12 1/2 foot-wide monster, the question becomes: Did we just hit peak Zoetrope? [Watch]
