Director Roman Veiga Joins Troublemakers’ Roster
April 18, 2024
Chinese director and CG artist Ajiao Weiye, who hit the Stash radar last summer with this outstanding title sequence, calls out the irresponsibility of gambling with the Earth’s environment in this dramatic new CG short film. [Watch]
São Paulo director/musician Patrick Hanser combines his many talents and Playground AI into a video for the first single from his music project Bacará, prompted with art styles from painters including Picasso, Kandinsky, and Miró. [Watch]
Digital artist and filmmaker Axl Le and his talents for conjuring dangerous near-future worlds return with this short film, a creative alliance with South Korean actor/singer/model/creative director Lee Minho. [Watch]
Iconoclast directing duo Alaska (aka Gustavo Moraes and Marco Laver) launch Droga5’s new global campaign for LinkedIn with a riveting mix of dance, puppeteering, and VFX all held together by LA post house Kevin. [Watch]
With his small Kyiv studio closed due to the Russian occupation, director/3D artist Anatolii Belikov regroups his scattered team virtually to craft visuals for the Pitch Music & Arts Festival in Australia. [Watch]
Armenian director and motion artist Hasmik Mkhchyan combines her appreciation for American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick and new forms of visual storytelling into a personal short film created with Stable Diffusion. [Watch]
London studio Optical Arts and director Fabrice Le Nezet continue their in-house visual experiments with Babel, a short film “blurring the lines between history, illustration, typography, print, animation, architecture, and design.” [Watch]
Get ready to have your senses shaken as director Alessandro Pacciani and the Platige Image VFX team unleash two minutes of fury and flash inspired by the new Lamborghini Revuelto and its 1015-horsepower hybrid V12 engine. [Watch]
Montreal motion design duo Mat&Fab (Mathieu Harrisson and Fabrice Fenoy) tackle meta themes of motivation and creator’s block in this playful animated short produced in concert with integrated prodco L’Éloi. [Watch]
London-based French animator Jonathan Djob Nkondo, who we last saw opening the GLAS Animation Festival with an eccentric and enigmatic sequence, just released this exhilarating short film “Little Taste of Joy”. [Watch]
The Mill gathers a massive multi-national VFX team to conjure multiple levels of evil and darkness in this ominous launch trailer for Diablo IV, the latest installment of Blizzard’s blockbuster action RPG arriving June 6. [Watch]
Diogo Kalil, who recently directed this powerful piece for the Irish charity Dublin Simon Community, continues his exploration of AI imagery but with a drastically different tone in this new video for Polish hardcore band Węże. [Watch]
In their latest adventure into CG magic realism, creative director Igor Sordokhonov and the crew of 3D explorers at Media.Work conjure a series of tableaux reimagining technology and artifacts related to data postprocessing. [Watch]
If you’re looking for feel-good vibes and a happy ending, this is not your short film. But if you love satire, fearless art direction, and 1920s-influenced character design, we highly recommend watching Mr. Pete & the Iron Horse. [Watch]
