The best music videos have always been passion projects, with directors, animators, and VFX artists ignoring creative and fiscal restraints to push their ideas into new and unexplored visual terrain. [Watch]
As more directors and designers added powerful and affordable 3D tools to their arsenal in 2020, the scope and quality of work continued to mature – finding broader acceptance in commercial work and exhibiting a wider emotional range. [Watch]
Motion designer/director Mathijs Luijten: “I sometimes send a message to people who inspire me, like Jesper Ryom. A casual Facebook message, what could possibly come from that…? [Watch]
Hobbes, a design and animation studio out of Detroit, MI, partnered with VWLS and Firefly Drone Shows to produce the music video for “High in Heaven,” performed and shot by drones. [Watch]
If the mid-December chills are taking their toll on your mood, I can recommend escaping into the sunny and stress-free world created by Detroit animator/illustrator Nick Parente in his music video for Flamingosis (aka Aaron Velasquez). [Watch]
Underground cartoonist/animator/director Mike Wartella and his Brooklyn studio Dream Factory Animation roll out the requisite hand-made, low tech techniques for a White Stripes song in this messy visual blast for “Let’s Shake Hands” from The White Stripes Greatest Hits released Dec. 2020. [Watch]
