visual essay

Bullies, opera and typography: Sounds like a job for Giant Ant

The Vancouver Opera and librettist Shane Koyczan invited Giant Ant to collaborate on "Stickboy", a new opera that tackles the psychological…

10 years ago

Men’s Health “How a Bean Becomes a Fart”

Giant Ant strikes again for Men's Health, this time explaining how a bean becomes a gaseous expulsion of malodorous intent…

10 years ago

The Story of a Story

Brikk created this poetic encapsulation of the process behind creating an animation, from pitch to delivery. Credits Brikk Daniel Isedal…

10 years ago

It’s a Plastic World

This depressing but educational visual essay explains the ubiquity of plastic in our oceans using an interesting low-poly microverse contained…

10 years ago

Pearson English: “One”

Although the script is a bit on the dry side, this explainer video from Territory kept my attention with its…

10 years ago

Adobe CMO Stats

The bevy of elegant and sometimes surprising transitions that pepper this explainer video for Adobe never upstage the real star…

10 years ago

Nvidia Grid VCA: “Wherever Life Takes You”

This buttery smooth explainer video for Nvidia gracefully oscillates between representational and abstract illustrations to communicate its highly technical material.…

10 years ago

Elements of Design

Matt Greenwood's buttery smooth "Elements of Design" is a high-speed buffet of some key concepts behind motion graphic design. I'd…

10 years ago

Gergely Wootsch: Penny Dreadful Portraits “Dracula”

https://vimeo.com/95883950 To promote Showtime's moody new drama/horror series, Penny Dreadful, Gergely Wootsch directed this evocative visual essay about the cultural…

10 years ago

Xiangjun Shi: Why Do I Study Physics?

https://vimeo.com/64951553 Physics and animation are not often bedfellows, but in the hands of Xiangjun "Shixie" Shi, they seem as natural…

10 years ago

84000 “Words of the Buddha”

https://vimeo.com/95872973 Giant Ant creates "Words of the Buddha," an elegant 2D promo for non-profit 84,000. The non-profit, 84000, has an…

10 years ago

How Beer Goggles Work

Leftchannel busts out its traditional animation chops in "How Beer Goggles Work," a chuckle-worthy visual essay for Men’s Health magazine.

10 years ago

Modern Love: Fight or Flight

https://vimeo.com/89646442 As her relationship with her boyfriend was coming to an end, the writer Sarah L. Courteau grasped for a…

10 years ago

Art&Graft: “Trip” The Virgin Atlantic Safety Film

Long ago, Virgin Airways embraced the simple fact that no one pays attention to the poor flight attendants as they…

10 years ago

Giant Ant: Men’s Health Magazine “How a Protein Becomes a Muscle”

Follow ingenious peptides through a visual essay explaining how muscle mass is created in the human body. Illustrations by the…

10 years ago

Fraser Davidson: A Guide To American Football

UK-based Fraser Davidson's latest, "A Guide To American Football," is a hilarious distillation of one of America's most beloved pastimes.…

10 years ago

Animation for a Cause

Nicely timed with the giving season, Mexico City-based designer/animator Yaniv Fridman has launched Animation for a Cause, a nonprofit dedicated…

10 years ago

beeple: Transparent Machines

beeple's provocative short film, "Transparent Machines," posits that if we want to blame anyone for lack of privacy online, we…

10 years ago

Don’t Fail Idaho (Extended Version) by Buck

Over the last several years, Buck has made a point of creating elegantly clever PSAs for causes they believe in.…

11 years ago

Oil’d by Chris Harmon

Oil'd by Chris Harmon, a visual essay that reminds us of our dependence on black gold

13 years ago

Farming Futures Animation by Luke Marsh

Farming Futures Animation by Luke Marsh

14 years ago

The Story Of Cosmetics by Free Range Studio

The Story Of Cosmetics by Free Range Studio

14 years ago

Fantastic animated visual essay in this teaser for Waiting For Superman by Buck

Fantastic animated visual essay in this teaser for Waiting For Superman by Buck

14 years ago

Blacklist’s Pistachios: “The Story of Kakenya”

Top Blacklist director, Pistachios, has partnered with with co-director Aaron Kisner and the Vital Voices Global Partnership to bring us…

14 years ago