Beats by Dre “Never Beaten” by Gaia Alari
August 8, 2022
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German luxury goods brand Montblanc lays out its commitment to sustainability in this smooth and understated mix of cel animation and 3D directed by Device and Raül Peix through Barcelona prodco Bol and W+K Amsterdam. [Watch]
Feeling overworked and realizing she hadn’t animated anything just for fun in a long time, Chicago animation director Margaret Bialis gathered 11 talented friends for a joint look at the big and small in their lives. [Watch]
Max Leung, a key artist at MPC in London, just released this personal film in an attempt to capture the roller coaster of emotions he experienced when his son was born prematurely in the midst of the pandemic. [Watch]
Cake, FXX’s half-hour short-form comedy block, now comes wrapped in an appropriately absurdist broadcast package fashioned by Impactictist, aka Kelly Meador and Daniel Elwing who also composed the music. [Watch]
Landia directing duo 1985 and Papamusic in Buenos Aires take finger puppets to the next level in this singing and dancing tribute to the benefits of getting probed for prostate cancer. [Watch]
Christoph Ott, a motion designer and digital artist at 908 in Berlin, deconstructs the time-honored tradition of adding cards to bicycle spokes as well as the bike itself in this new personal adventure in CG filmmaking. [Watch]
Arnis Vitols, a 3D technical artist based in Riga, Latvia, asks the question “Does perfection in form exist?” with a new personal film called FINIERIS (“Veneer” in Latvian) with a soundscape designed by Human Robot Soul. [Watch]
When Sony Interactive Entertainment revealed the PlayStation 5 for the first time, these two CG films by Maxim Zhestkov and the Media.Work crew (now online for the first time) helped heighten the aura of anticipation and intrigue. [Watch]
This intimate and carefully rendered opening sequence for the Paramount+ Halo series reflects the show’s narrative arc following Master Chief/John-117 on a quest to uncover his past while revealing intricate details of his Mjolnir armor. [Watch]
Director/animator Cheng-Hsu Chung, whose talents for chaotic maximalism are on full display in music videos for Chelou and !!! (Chk Chk Chk), just dropped this frenzied feast for Adult Swim’s Off The Air anthology series. [Watch]
Continuing their string of innovative and intriguing music videos (e.g., these films for Bright Eyes and Thom Yorke), NYC studio Art Camp merges 2D and 3D animation with underwater live-action in this dreamscape for R&B/soul artist Amber Mark directed by Jos Diaz Contreras. [Watch]
Agency Saatchi & Saatchi, Riff Raff director Finn Keenan, and The Mill VFX crew in London assemble to pack the leader of the Autobots off on a road trip, the latest in a series of comic spots for UK insurance provider Direct Line. [Watch]
Shout out to the Ukrainian design community here with a beautiful product film by Kharkiv-based motion designer Nikita Proshin for the Oslinchik collection of wooden stools by oitoproducts, a young furniture brand headquartered in Kiev. [Watch]
