Oliver Latta Sustains the Surreal for “Severance” Season 2

In 2022, artist/motion designer Oliver Latta (aka Extraweg) won the Main Title Design Emmy for his landmark Severance open. The good news is, with season 2, he doubles down on the surreality and expands the scope of the imagery. [Watch]

Flatwhite Motion Keeps it Light & Tight for Jingdong

Creative director Max Zhang and the design and motion team at Flatwhite Motion in Qingdao, China, layer up hanzi typography and a flurry of products in this tightly choreographed film for the JD Furniture Festival. [Watch]

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Pleix Adds Sparkle to Moët & Chandon’s Collection Impériale

The latest motion work from veteran French creative collective Pleix builds effervescence and refraction into a level of luxury befitting Moët & Chandon’s Collection Impériale champagne, a cuvée released to mark the brand’s 280th anniversary. [Watch]

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Henning M. Lederer Enters the Machine in New Music Video for Max Cooper and Aneek Thapar

Follow director Henning M. Lederer (whose obsession with animating book covers we follow here), on his intricate motion journey for the track “I Exist Inside This Machine”, an audio collab between Max Cooper and Aneek Thapar. [Watch]

Tendril Runs Back the College Football Playoffs for ESPN

The latest work from Tendril’s motion team for ESPN’s coverage of the College Football Playoffs presents a stylistic departure from their previous work but retains all the visceral energy and visual innovation we’ve come to expect. [Watch]

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LOBO Rolls Out “The Snowball” for SAFE Project

With innovative animation from LOBO set to the plaintive vocals of Billie Holiday, this short film produced for non-profit SAFE Project thru FCB Health New York provides a powerful metaphor to stick with your dry (or damp) January. [Watch]

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Kimathi Flavien Solves the Design Puzzle in “Stack” Short Film

If the sense of joy from your work has ebbed lately, this new personal motion project from Paris-based animator and graphic designer Kimathi Flavien should help you remember the fun that designing for design sake can bring. [Watch]

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Savants’ Keep it Elemental for TRC 2038 (Director’s Cut)

Savants, the pan-European directing collective who opened the 1.4 Awards in London last year with this piece of whimsy, set a vastly different tone in this elemental brand film for the innovative Milan-based denim label TRC 2038. [Watch]

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OK Go Gets Framed in “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill” Video

A thousand takes, eight days, 64 phones, one impossibly complex music video. Yes, OK Go is back and in fine form with a music video for the track “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill” directed by OK Go’s Damian Kulash and Chris Buongiorno. [Watch]

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Yeti and Not To Scale Get Their Hands Up for Coca-Cola

Somehow, during the chaos that was 2024, we missed this series of happy-go-lucky animated Coke spots directed by Yeti Pictures thru Not To Scale and London agency Inside Job, so we’re making up for it right now. [Watch]

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Meet Danbi Kwak and Her Nifty Nag Champa Promo

South Korean motion designer Danbi Kwak makes her Stash debut with this snappy CG passion project, a spec promo for the venerable Indian brand Nag Champa and the power of its incense products to sooth the mind and body. [Watch]

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Mr. Kaplin Answers the Question “What does it feel like to have ADHD?”

Inspired by the mental health journey of his daughter Mia, London-based 3D motion director Robert Glassford (aka Mr Kaplin), animates a colorful and hope-filled answer to the question “What does it feel like to have ADHD?” [Watch]

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Reel of the Month Club (Jan 2025): Virak Path

Virak Path: “I recently graduated from 3dsense Media School in Singapore, where I specialized in Motion Design. This show reel is a compilation of my most notable projects, including a title sequence for Steins;Gate, a GUI design project for the Nothing Ear (a), a TVC for the Steam Deck, a brand ident for The Game Awards, and a TVC for RAMA WORKS. [Watch]

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Buda.tv Takes a Jab at the Effects of AI on Creativity

Buda.tv CDs Martin Dasnoy and Dalmiro Buigues cast a half-naked dolphin in this comic and mildly apocalyptic in-house short film that ponders the serious side effects AI could have on the art and craft of animation. [Watch]