Planet Under Pressure

The award-winning trio that is Moth Collective does it again with their new film, Planet Under Pressure. With the core message: No Water, No Energy, No… Read more

Pep Rally is born

PepRally has quietly launched. The studio is part of a growing trend of director/designer/animators creating new opportunities for work that fall outside the normal scope of freelance.… Read more

Fibonacci Zoetrope Sculptures

Stanford design instructor John Edmark has rethought the zoetrope with beautiful 3D-printed sculptures that animate when filmed in sync with a strobe light. Explains Edmark: These are… Read more

Yukai Du: Way Out

Yukai Du’s MA graduation film, “Way Out,” is a surreal cautionary tale that hits close to home. Her “nouveau 1990s” stylistic voice is refreshing: especially her use… Read more

Encylopedia Pictura for Panda Bear

San Francisco based, Encylopedia Pictura, has sprung back into music-video-making action! Last month, the collective released a live-action forrest romance for Metronomy. They’ve now followed that up with… Read more

Illuminate by Nicolas Ménard

Nicolas Ménard brings us Illuminate, a music video for Tourist featuring Years and Years and his first piece under Nexus Productions. Following his recent Young Guns 12… Read more

Carboni Studio: “All Over”

Chris Carboni and a small team gracefully stitched together this cinematic survey of a music video. We asked Chris about the making-of logistics: “This video… Read more

Ray Dynamic Color

Sander van Dijk, who previously brought us Ouroboros, is back again with a wonderful new color management plug-in for After Effects, Ray Dynamic Color. Anyone who has had to… Read more

Persistent Peril: Phantom Power

Ace composition and beautifully nuanced animation in Phantom Power by Persistent Peril. Some extra behind the scenes on their site.   Client: Full Time Hobby… Read more

Girl Hub

Not to Scale’s Man vs Magnet (Matt Smithson) is back for The Girl Effect, this time with a more illustrative approach in “Girl Hub.” The… Read more

Bildungsroman

Bildungsroman: a coming-of-age story dealing with one person’s formative years or spiritual education “Bildungsroman” is a 2-minute personal project produced and directed by Barcelona-based art… Read more

Váscalo’s 2014 reel

Váscalo’s 2014 reel brims with all the color and personality we’ve come to expect from the Buenos Aires-based studio. Credits Music by: Copycat & JR.Dynamite… Read more

Playgrounds Festival Titles 2014

Again, the Playgrounds Festival was a blast. Solid line-up, nice presentations and a good overall atmosphere. This year, Playgrounds had not one but two title sequences.… Read more