LA director and visual innovator Brent Bonacorso (who created this stunner for Grimes during lockdown) tackles the intricacies of merging two icons of Americana in this spot for a Disney-themed trim level for Chevy. [Watch]
Founder and director JM Blay at Blay Studio: “We were approached to create several tech videos for Tempur, well-known for its R&D, engineering, manufacturing, and distribution of mattresses, pillows, and other sleep and relaxation products. [Watch]
In a chilling mix of live-action, CG, and AI, director and CG artist Somei Sun crafts a sci-fi heroine and futurescape for fast-rising Chinese game maker Zilong and their upcoming mobile title 2089: Frontier. [Watch]
After resonating deeply with festival audiences, Spiegeling, the animated short film by Dutch director Sanna de Vries brings its timely message about our obsession with self-image to the online universe where the problem is perhaps most virulent. [Watch]
The Line director/co-founder Wesley Louis leads his team into the world of gamer fantasies with this anime-flavored anthem/music video for Riot Games’ League of Legends Worlds tournament 2022. [Watch]
Back in 2018, ECD Ryan Honey and the crew at Buck spun the dating app Tinder into something timeless and wonderful by creating a warm and lighthearted mix of CG characters and practical miniature sets. [Watch]
French artist Benoit Challand and Italian designer Pietro Franceschini spin their talents together in this elegant film created for the D3sign Capsule x Elle Décoration exhibition during Paris Design Week 2022. [Watch]
San Francisco animation artist Nata Metlukh (whose wonderfully deranged short film Pura Vida you should watch) just dropped a delightful piece of hand-animated absurdity about type called Regular. [Watch]
The Half Rez motion design event returned live to Chicago this year with a packed house and this opening from the team at Flavor who slammed together 2D, 3D, AI, VR, and mo-capped puppets into a mad visual rampage. [Watch]
Coalescing live-action, VFX and AI-generated animation, Montreal director Derek Branscombe conjures a form of liquid dream state for DJ/producer/musician Ourielle Auvé based on her own out-of-body experiences. [Watch]
Amazon Prime’s first Thursday Night Football stream went live Sept 15 with Imaginary Forces providing a fresh take on NFL game intros – a retro-flavored mix of 2D and 3D action which the studio will update for each week’s match-up. [Watch]
Brooklyn digital artist Wes Cockx investigates new ideas in texture and color for Google’s Material You unified design language with this compilation of tactile and playful CG experiments. [Watch]
The creative and production teams at TBWA\Melbourne recruit AI platform Midjourney to interpret passages from classic novels into powerful illustrations for this promotional campaign/art project for the Melbourne Writers Festival. [Watch]
Working with deep fake specialist French Faker, Division director Arnaud Bresson and The Mill layer live-action, CG, Flame work, and motion design into an appropriately disturbing music video for British rapper M.I.A. [Watch]