Director Reza Dolatabadi, Jorge Aguilera, and Ale Saevich Launch NOBORDER Studio
April 30, 2025
Fifteen years into his career, Montreal freelance 3D artist/motion designer Guillaume Combeaud continues to declare his love for the medium with a series of passion projects. This sleek, near-future Nike spec spot is his latest. [Watch]
Kaleidoscopic product shots, dynamic typography, and a cross-section of happy humans flow into one impossible-to-ignore 30-second brand film for Smirnoff, courtesy of the design and motion crew at ManvsMachine thru McCann New York. [Watch]
Reteaming with agency Across The Pond, the design and motion crew at Art&Graft in London combine a prismatic graphic treatment with illustration, and bold type to elevate their newest AI explainer for Google. [Watch]
Intermixing the expected action sequences with a surprisingly emotional coming-of-age story, directors CRCR and Paris animation house WIZZ set the tone for Riot’s 2023 Valorant Championship that got underway on August 6 in LA. [Watch]
With the third chapter in their Bend Reality short film series, the crew at Barcelona’s Drasik Studio deploy anime and glitchy underground animation styles for an action/fantasy look at the concept of brotherhood. [Watch]
Vancouver prodco The Heist and Montreal director/designers Sebastien Camden and Vincent Raineri unite their many talents for a manic multi-technique ode to commercial creativity and the pressurized quest for the big idea. [Watch]
Guido Ekker, aka VFX supervisor and director at The Panics in Amsterdam, unveils Adidas’ new ALTS web3 loyalty concept, mixing motion-capture, hand-held cameras, and a cyber-punk vibe into a pair of gritty, neon-infused films. [Watch]
Working with a custom pipeline combining traditional animation with generative AI, ECD Matt Pyke and the crew at Universal Everything brew up a strangely captivating mix of convulsive type and alien architecture for Freefarm. [Watch]
Blinkink director Raman Djafari unpacks childhood memories of growing up in the Spandau borough of Berlin as the foundation for this dramatic and dreamy solo CG music video for DJ Piper who hails from the same part of the German capital. [Watch]
CD Vincent Ben Abdellah and the design/animation team at Blackmeal in Nantes, France, wrangle a parade of vibrant characters and styles in this brand film for French online music equipment retailer Woodbrass. [Watch]
Interesting first work out of Mother Berlin finds BWGTBLD director Jovan Todorović building an extraordinary world from mundane moments and volumetrically scanned humans for German techno icon Paul Kalkbrenner. [Watch]
London 3D artists and motion designers Peter and Christiana under TOMASZEWICZ studio spin their signature brand of light-hearted CG chaos into a bold product showcase for the launch of two new shoes for FILA Kids China. [Watch]
Mack Garrison, founder/director of content at Dash: “The Dash Bash is an annual animation and motion design festival based here in Raleigh, North Carolina. This year we had 350 creatives in attendance for the two-day event on July 20-21. [Watch]
ECD Gareth O’Brien (whose many design/animation styles can be seen here) leads the BUCK Sydney crew and a trio of expressive CG characters fearlessly into the Australian heat for Taiwan tea franchise Gong Cha. [Watch]
