Director Ernest Desumbila and his crew at Sauvage.TV in Barcelona snap back to the League of Legends world with impossibly kinetic action layered up in CG and glitchy hand-animated 2D for Riot Games virtual boy band Heartsteel. [Watch]
The many frustrations of shared parenting in the face of impending doom are tied together with impeccable comic timing in this multi-award-winning comedy from five young director/animators graduating from École des Nouvelles Images. [Watch]
The newest crop of student films out of the Ringling College Computer Animation Department feature four very different protagonists singing, eating, exploring, and following their hearts toward four happy endings. [Watch]
Cincinnati studio Polymath Motion celebrates the minimalist beauty and thoughtful utility of Hay’s 100% recycled color crates with an elegant in-house exercise in form, light, and composition. [Watch]
Inspired by print magazines and fanzines, the design and animation crew at Bark&Bite in London say they “aimed at pulling on nostalgic heartstrings” in their first work for Crocs. [Watch]
Gifted with creative freedom by the client, B-O-D studio in Beijing unleashes an adrenalin blast of hyper-parkour action, cool weapons, and hapless zombies in this promo for the free battle royale shooter PUBG Mobile. [Watch]
Danish animation director Kim Hagen Jensen and the Milford Animation team in Stockholm, conjure some fabulously freakish flora for the relaunch of FuturePlay’s free-to-play puzzle game Merge Gardens. [Watch]
Taiwan CG artist and motion designer Ming-Shuo Kao just slipped onto the Stash radar with this ambitious and fanciful CG take on must-have future tech that combines neuroscience, furniture, and mixology. [Watch]
Switching seamlessly between 2D and CG animation, director Jan Xavier and the crew at São Paulo studio Histeria! translate a fantasy adventure about a boy and his yeti into a music video/trailer for Riot’s “Song of Nunu: A League of Legends Story”. [Watch]
Founder/director Kevin Dart and his design and animation team at Chromosphere transplant the star of their Yuki 7 web series into a light and clever real-time simulation training video using Unreal Engine. [Watch]
Referencing 1970’s analog design techniques, King+Country set a gritty and dangerous tone for The Continental, a three-episode miniseries born from the world of John Wick produced by Lionsgate and airing on Peacock. [Watch]
The always-fabulous Motion Plus Design series expands to India with a satellite event in New Delhi on October 28th featuring some of the region’s top motion designers and a live stream Q&A with Imaginary Forces CD Karen Fong. [Watch]
Warsaw-based 3D artist Sebastian Marek designs and directs a playful brand video highlighting the key features and benefits of the Adobe Substance 3D asset library. [Watch]
CDs Tom Crate and Dave Webster at FutureDeluxe in London amp up the drama for an elemental reveal of Huawei’s Ultimate Design luxury smartwatch (complete with black nanocrystal ceramic bezel and 18K gold inlays). [Watch]