A Coke is a Coke

“A Coke tastes the same no matter who you are, what you look like, what you believe, or who you love. And more than ever, we believe that together is beautiful.”

Terry

This is Terry Crews’ sexual assault survivor story.

Be The Ice Sculptor – Paul Goldsmith

Paul Goldsmith’s final project on the School of Motion Animation Bootcamp course.

AstraZeneca

This fun animation shows how a simple blood test can help diagnose the disease and determine the right treatment plan.

Rise – Hope-a-nomics

Really nice animation about rise, using a cutout textural style.

Families Together

A powerful and moving film telling the true story of the Pearcey family for the Princess Alice Hospice

UKTVA Lifetime of Stories

Animade’s latest project in collaboration with UKTV intricately traverses a lifetime of stories.

Compostable Packaging 101

This short film aims to highlight the importance of compostable materials with regards to changing the way we package goods in the future.

The Great Plastic Purge

Great animation outlining how we can all make a difference by reducing, reusing and recycling!

Data Trails: Jer Thorp

Some nice visualization of data from Peprally

Join Motionographer on Patreon: Directors Cut

For as little as $2 a month, join the motionographer Patreon community and shape Motionographer’s future!

Seton Welcome to Humancare

An impressive animation from director Elliot Lim, utilizing a paper cutout aesthetic.

Nexium 24HR: What causes heartburn?

Great explainer about what causes heartburn directed by Sarah Beth Morgan.

Motion Plus Design Paris 2018

Titles created by Niels Prayer
Character animation by Quentin Laville
Visuals & Music by Niels Prayer

Bo Burnham – The Me Generation

A personal project from Qais Sarhan featuring Bo Burnham’s poetic rant about our obsession with constantly sharing our lives on social media.

D is for Darwin BBC Teach

One of the episodes from the animated A to Z guide for children aged 11-14 that explores and introduces a variety of religious topics.

Sausage – Animated Short Film

This is SAUSAGE, the multi award winning and Oscar long-listed animated short film, directed by Robert Grieves.

Mark of a Free Society

In todays Gig Economy, workers rights feel like a thing of the past. But 300 years ago, conditions in Britain were so extreme that death at work was commonplace. This sparked the worlds first trade unions that still fight for workers today.

Forestry Commission Scotland

This animation was commissioned by the Forestry Commission Scotland to communicate the significant contribution of forestry to the economy.

Family Debit Cards

A collaborative mixed media video with real objects, stop motion animation, 2D animation and a bit of After Effects to put it all together.
Checkout the Making of video here: vimeo.com/193892290

Directed & Produced by: Beast Collective beastcollective.com/

The Mouse

“The Mouse” by Slurpy Studios
An animation supporting the IICSA’s Truth Project.
by Voicing CSA with Slurpy Studios and Collage Arts
Story – Katie Steed and Phillip Lafferty, Animation – Fern Bailey, Animation Producer – Aaron Wood, Animation Director – Katie Steed, Produced by Chris Harper

Maagalim – Jane Bordeaux

Official music video for Jane Bordeaux’s ‘Maagalim’. In a forgotten old penny arcade, a wooden doll is stuck in place and time.
Producers: Uri Lotan & Yoav Shtibelman, Art Director: Ovadia Benishu

Hope For Tomorrow

A gambler, who is trapped in a life-threatening mindstate, confesses the dark story of his life on how much he lost by chasing his losses.

Written and Directed by Mantas Gr
Illustration and Animation: Mantas Gr
Music and Sound Design: Zing Audio
Audio Mastering: Dan Solovitz
Script Editor: James Nixon

Philosophy Feuds: Freud vs Jung

Sex, religion and envy how Freud and Jungs frenetic friendship tore itself apart. Directed and animated by Andrew Khosravani. Produced by Kellen Quinn.

APC /// economic, social, cultural and cultural rights

A quirky animation about human rights, featuring zebras.
Credits:
Story (based on an original script by APC): Frdric Dubois
Illustration/Animation: Macaia Studio
Sound design: Hannes Schulze
Voice: Thaddea Tsering

Alcoholics Anonymous

Multiple recorded voices from AA meetings explored through hand-drawn animation.
By Buck

Grantham – The perfect storm

By Bite&Bark – Illustrations: Lee Roberts, Ash Spurr
3D: Alex Shackleton, Richard Taylor, Nick Quayle, Alex Hilbert
Animation: Alfonso Petrovita, Nick Quayle

Jones Dairy Farm – How do you know who makes your food

RocketPanda worked alongside long time friends NY based Aggressive, to create two spots for Jones Dairy Farm, by bringing to life an animated rural setting on a real kitchen counter.

#MoveWithHeart

This video was created to be released and shared during American Heart Month (February) to help bring awareness to heart disease and encourage Americans to move more.

Hendrick's Gin, Escape

Great animation from Tulip’s and Chimney’s, taking something painfully ordinary like a commute to work, and giving it that extraordinary Hendricks sense of wonder.

Swiss Fin Lab

Explainer video for Swiss Fin Lab, that promotes their ZOA service. By Explain Ninja.

Wells Fargo Transparency

Series of short adverts for US bank, Wells Fargo. Lovely textures and transitions.
Directed by We Are Royale
Creative Director: Brien Holman
Producer: Jen Beall
Art Director: Heather Aquino
Designers: Rury Lee, Jackie Doan
Character Animation: Tyler Morgan, Andrew Embury
2D Animation: Tyler Morgan, Andrew Embury, Handel Eugene
3D Animation: Patrick Clarke, Andrew Embury, Handel Eugene

Blue – CNN

“Blue is the world’s favourite colour”

Moth worked with CNN and Dr. James Fox to produce a film for their Colour Scope series.

Elspeth Beard – Riding into History

Youre 23, your hearts been broken and theres a long, hard slog of study stretching out in front of you. What do you do? For Elspeth Beard, a round-the-world trip on the back of her 1974 BMW R60/6 flat-twin motorbike proved the ultimate remedy for a wounded heart and weary head.
Animated by Joe Brooks.

The LooseKeys Creative Process

A fun animation from LooseKeys on their creative process utilizing a fun line art style.

Change Makers

Commissioned by the Dutch NGO RNW Media, Change Makers is an animation film about those young women and men who live in fragile or repressive states, usually going through civil unrest and conflict.
These young people often represent the majority of their countrys population, yet they’re ignored and denied crucial information and services.

At least what I think

A personal project from Nas Alhusain detailing her observations on creativity.

Man Meets Woman

A personal project from Terrence Ginja Martinho based on the book “Man Meets Woman.”

Travel Channel Travellers Etiquette 1/5 – Interaction

A series of interstitials on the do’s and definitely do nots of travelling the world. Some quirky 2d character animation from Picnic studios

Sophie Has a Biopsy

Created by Simon Tibbs
Client: Sandoz
Produced: Media Nerd
Sound: Media Nerd

Smart Save

A characterful explainer from Simon Tibbs integrating dynamic 3d coins into a quirky 2d world.

The New York Times – The Interpreter

Some playful, characterful cutout animation from Blink my Brain.
 

Water Stewardship – WWF

WWF has created a water stewardship report to help businesses assess their risks and use water stewardship steps to tackle them.
From Nice & Serious, Creative Director: Tom Tapper, Producer: Segolene Meheust, Animation Director: Luke Marsh, Design & Animation: Luke Marsh, Kirstin Smith, Sound Design: Serafima Serafimova / Audionetwork

British Army – "Emotions"

We Are Royale animate a series of five groundbreaking ads designed to expand recruitment for the British Army by directly confronting the concerns of women, gays, Muslims, and those who fear they are too emotional or physically unfit to serve.

ICYMI: Lucky Holidays

Another stop-mo-foam monster with foxes and squirrels and a hopelessly naive snowman. Great work from the team
at Parabella.

The Game for Fame

A glitzy, quirky animation advertising ‘The Game For Fame’ by Simon Tibbs.
Animator: Simon Tibbs
Client: The Game for Fame
Role: Pre-production, Art Direction, Illustration, Animation
Music: Morgan Samuel

GTA Vice City- Pet Stuffers

A personal project from Simon Tibbs paying homage to his all time favourite GTA radio advert, featured on Vice City.

Underlying Calm – Headspace

In this quirky animation, Headspace’s co-founder, Andy Puddicombe, describes the stillness that’s present in all our minds.

BBC One Christmas 2017 | The Supporting Act

BBC One’s Christmas short film – a story that illustrates the joy of a shared moment.

Stand Up To Cancer

3D animated commercial directed by Smith & Foulkes
Their world is in the grip of a lethal outbreak. A mysterious blue substance is leading to catastrophic destruction. Who is behind it all?
Its Payback Time was launched for 4Creatives campaign to promote Stand Up To Cancer.

Ant and Dec are #Feelingnuts

Lot’s of animation styles combined to create this quirky animation to raise awareness for testicular cancer. Great work from StudioAKA

Remember Its Waterproof – Dont Assume

One of 6 short films by Slurpy Studios for RIW (Remember It’s Waterproof).
Each film was created to explore a common mistake in the waterproofing process, and to show architects and builders the potential consequences of not doing it properly. They are a funny and tongue in cheek way of talking about quite a serious and technical problem.
They are designed in a 1950’s ‘UPA’ style, with strong character profiles, no straight lines and a carefully designed colour palette. The animation is fun and cartoony, with ‘rubber-hose’ limbs.

Comic Relief #FundEducation

Commissioned by Harvest Digital on behalf of Comic Relief and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), Slurpy Studios worked with Who Are They Productions to produce a short animated film piece to promote the GPE Education Campaign at the UN General Assembly.

Run The Jewels – Meowpurrdy

In conjunction with Adult Swim, Run The Jewels released a mind-altering video by esteemed cult video artist Cyriak for the albums lead track Meowpurrdy, a remix by El-P that deposits his and Killer Mikes vocal performances in the midst of a rhythmic vapor of meows, purrs, and hisses. Cyriaks visual treatment is an LSD-nightmare miasma of cat limbs and teeth fractalizing into feline Cthulu-esque monstrosities.

TRAILER | The Great British Bake Off | Channel 4

Amazing work from Parabella and Blinkink on the trailer for The Great British Bake Off.

Rooms

A great short film by Andrew D. Zimbelman
Based on the poem by Billy Collins.

Mailchimp // Google Ads

We had the most fun ever on this fast turn around spot for Mailchimp, introducing their Google Retargeting Ads integration! On what could have been a UI tour, they let us tell the story using Pearl, a short attention spanned feline wandering the internet in search of yarn.
Very nice animation. by Giant ant.

Project Ellis

Your rights in the US using the 4th & 5th Amendment. Produced and Directed by: Dress Code. Lead Animator: Wes Ebelhar


Facebook – Intellectual Rights Infringement

Buenos Aires animation and CG studio KASANA add life to the dry, intricate, but important matter of how Facebook handles intellectual property infringement on their platform.

Vibrato

Fantastic and beautiful animation by Sebastien Laudenbach for l’Opera National de Paris.

Primavera Sound James Rhodes

Animation from Bungalow revealing Rhodes a very personal musical memory from a room in a psychiatric hospital.

The Blend Is Near

Really good character animation with nice poses and attitudes according to emotions. Big fan!
Directed by Oddfellows

CNN Colorscope: Green

Nice animation. What kind of green are you?
Produced by Sarah-Grace Mankarious and design by Rafael Mayani. Commissioned by CNN International.

MediaMolecule

Animated intro video for MediaMolecule’s Twitch stream combining live action with playful animation.
Animation/Direction: Dan Castro
Illustration: Rex Crowle

Pinky Toe

Joyful little animation from Mathieu Libman – which showcase a wide range of styles and techniques.

4 mois 1/2 – Teaser

Nice french documentary with animated faces to keep the anonymity.
From Tabass

The Trolley Problem

Very cute animated film using lots of different techniques & styles. A thought experiment in ethics. Vid for TED Ed & DIRECTED BY Eoin Duffy

What if Santa Forgot?

A clever idea and nice animation from Aardman for Alzheimer’s Research UK.

The Leftovers – Titles

Titles using silhouettes cut out from stills.
From Elastic and directed by Angus Wall

Wilfred – Station idents

Really cool idents from Impactist, based in Portland Oregan

One plus One

Celebrating the demise of the smoker. Lovely animation for the Center for Disease ControlAgency: ICF International . Directed by: Melanie Dorn & Sean McClintock

SGCH – Homelessness

Director Stefan Wernik and the crew at Sydney animation studio The Magnificent Itch, produced this painterly animated film showcasing the true story of a homeless man reconnected with his family and the world thru Australian affordable housing non-profit SGCH.

Humaine Society – Puppy Mills

This Buck video should come with a saccharine warning, as the music and small american kids talking about puppies does verge on the nauseating, but it’s a nice animation which manages to slickly combine multiple animation looks and live action in the blink of an eye.

Disney Classics

2viente recreate Disney with classic geometric shapes. Each classic film is recognisable through the animation of simple geography, and matches with a modern colour palette and nice transitions add a unusual twist to a Disney channel advert.

Thor: The Dark World

A very simple and elegant painterly end sequence from Blur Studio.

50 years of Dior Eau Sauvage

This stylish promo for Dior’s “Eau Savage” takes us back to the early 2000s, when flat-shaded CG and negative space transitions were all the rage.
Directed directed by French duo David & Oerd.

Nautilus

An inspiring piece of animation for anyone interested in a career in astrophysics. The story behind France A. Cordova’s big break into a world normally populated by men. Produced by ‘Not to Scale and directed by Colin Hesterly.

Child Marriage

The American World Jewish Service work with Gunner to produce this infographic. An illustrative approach mixed with traditional original ideas create a Buck-like feel.

The Road to Rio

Art and Graft produce another carefully design short promoting the Olympics in collaboration with the Lottery and ITV. A pleasant mix of 2D and 3D rendered seamlessly in a coherent design style.

San Pellegrino ‘Dining By Starlight’

Blacklist and Studio AKA create this short for San Pellegrino. A fully 3D film but with a 3D style creates a charmingly lit environment.

The Jack Garratt Story

Great animation and great story about the rise to fame of Garratt. BBC Music commissioned ‘Contra‘ to tell the tale.

Ayrton Senna Institute

A brilliantly animated tale of F1 driver Senna, from Sao Paulo studio Le Cube. The film is meant as a piece of encouragement for fellow Brazillian athletes competing in this years Olympics.

Nespresso Mobile app

Another great piece from Quentin Baillieux (Parallel) with animation from Florent Remize. There’s a very continental retro styling here similar to the Pernod advert also on Sketchpad.

Charles X – Can You Do it

A mix of 2D and 3D animation in this stylish music video. Animation by Brunch & amazing Cinematography.

Anonimo

So this is how they make Swiss/Italian watches! A really nice animation playing on scale from Parallel. Also a great piece of sound design from Alexandre Poirier which really adds to the whole atmosphere.

A Kiss, Deferred

Beautiful simple animation for the New York Times by the Moth Collective.