Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy

Great work from Compost Creative. “BUY NOW! exposes the secretive world of the planet’s most influential brands and the techniques they use to keep us buying.

Candy – titles

The main title for Candy sets the table for an 80’s housewife who is turning up the heat.

Stories to be remembered

A self commissioned piece by Animagic Studios & homage to one of humanity’s most powerful tools. Our stories.

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

Agitated, rough charcoal strokes reveal pieces of the image, whether it is something based in reality or one of his dreamy visions.

Minima – Giving the Blockchain back to the People

Although very technical these animators & directors had chosen to work up the conception of empowering the people. Very painterly and graceful animation.

Cereal Fluid

Episode three on scientific theories! This episode focuses on the science of sleep.

‘Life After’ – Compilation

CNN’s “Life After” digital video series looks at what life is like after a personal tragedy or change, from losing a spouse to declaring bankruptcy.

The Life Artois – Montage

“These charming vignettes are pulling you into a world and transition beautifully from one scene to another.”

Johnny Cash Farther Along Official Music Video

Heavily inspired by Ansel Adams, Andrew Wythe, and William Kentridge, it is as rich in allegory as it is bold in tone and texture.

Secret Love – titles

Love stories that were kept in the closet for a long time reflecting the history, legislation and norms of the time.

The Last Plaque

Nice study of life in a cityscape.

In Other Words

A brief meeting after many years undermines a father’s world and renders his words meaningless.

A Family That Steals Dogs

Strange experiences and realizations lead a grieving artist to reconsider his identity and beliefs in this meditation on loss, family and mental illness.

Back to the Stars

A sweet story based on the real-life experience of a retired and recently widowed former Russian cosmonaut staying at a Ritz-Carlton resort in China

Lux “#IStandWithCaster” by Ralph Karam and Le Cube

The battle between South African Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya and the I.A.A.F. over her gender and ban from competition.

Greenpeace – There’s a monster in my kitchen

Greenpeace turns its focus to industrial meat production as the root of deforestation

Jack Ryan Titles

Nice work juxtaposing US cultural icons with military hardware.

Okavango Blue diamond

An ethereal post production journey with this piece to encapsulate the essence and beauty of one of the rarest and expensive diamonds known to man.

Gun Shop

Director Patrick Smith’s short film shows 2,328 firearms in rapid succession, to highlight and question America’s love of guns.

Ligonier Ministries

This is a short video made for Ligonier Ministries promoting their theme for next years national conference.

Anxiety Empire

Different animated clips and loops for Anxiety Empire magazine’s 2020 Kickstarter campaign.

Dupont – Thread

Follow a 3D stroke as it draws on shapes and objects. Nice work from Buck.tv.

This is the tale of Nomex & Kevlar.

MSK – Cancer – Less

Lovely abstract animation by toast.tv.

Beautiful colours and lightness of animation touches.

GE: An Apollo 11 story

GE employee shares her story on her direct connection to the Apollo 11 mission.

The Great Hack

Great title sequence & great Doc exposing the tale behind Cambridge Analytical and Facebook.

EDOF Infomercial

CNN Internationals content studio, Create, entrusted us with producing an inspiring animation about EDOF; a charity that works with the Red Cross, as well as nurturing and funding younger NGOs.

Produced and created by Mummu

One Last Dance (Animated Short)

Told from a daughters perspective, seen through her fathers eyes. ‘One Last Dance’ explores how it felt watching her father slowly forget everything he knew.

Mend and Make Do – A Life-Sized Animated Short Film

Cup of tea? Come and take a seat in Lyn’s cosy front room, hear her story of love during wartime and watch as her belongings come alive with the hope, fear and humour of one spirited lady.

NPSCC: Tipping the Scales

This animation created for NSPCC, sets out to explain the Tipping the Scales concept which describes the outcomes of child development.

Credits:
Produced by Fred & Eric
Producers: Jamie Pigram & Sarah Killeen
Creative Direction: Maggie Rogers
Design & Animation: FAB

Lullaby Theories, Episode Four: Babies & Babies & Babies

What could we learn if we discovered a parallel universe–a sister Earth? Would our twin universe exist in the same state as ours? What could we glean from it?

NPR Invisibilia – The Power of Expectations

A very interesting piece taken from the NPR Invisibilia podcast – this animation explores whether expectations can have a profound impact on our own lives.

ADAA – Anxiety

This piece was made to promote awareness about a very serious psychological issue, Anxiety.

My Brother

Some stunning transitions in this piece by Audrey Yeo about migrant workers.

WordPress Media Meditation

Some lovely line art and transitions in this film for wordpress by Caresse Haaser.

A Christmas message from Ashford’s Dementia Peer Support Group

Having a dementia-friendly Christmas This year, our Alzheimer’s Society Christmas message comes in the form of an animated poem, written by members of Ashford’s Dementia Support Group, who are all living with dementia.

Anonymous

The following is an anonymous survivor’s story from the Me Too movement

Terry

This is Terry Crews’ sexual assault survivor story.

To Do List

A very nice personal project from Yanic Fridman, combining 3D and 2D motion graphics.

The Depths of the Barely Visible

An ancient letter, written at a time when beauty and hope were difficult to see in the world.

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.

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.

The Night Manager

A fab mix of luxury items and warfare which has elements of James Bond titles.
Elastic
Director | Patrick Clair
Client | The Ink Factory

The Alienist

Title sequence showing the deconstruction of Manhatten.
Design Studio: Elastic, Executive Creative Director: Angus Wall, Creative Director: Lisa Bolan, Art Director: Heidi Berg, Designer: Felix Soletic, Composite and Animation: Yongsub Song, Charles Khoury, Piero Desopo, Alex Silver, Rachel Brickel, Editor: Lauren Dellara

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.

Flattr Plus

Flattr Plus will let users directly and sustainably fund content they love without reliance on ads, paywalls or paying for single articles. Simple and effective animation by Sebastianbap

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.”

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.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: The First White President

Designed and animated by Tynesha Foreman from an interview with Coates about his article in The Atlantic where he cites Gallup research to explain how tribalism and white supremacy paved the way for Trump.
Client: The Atlantic
Director/animator: Tynesha Foreman
Producer: Nicholas Pollock
Production Mangager Brian Jimenez
Senior producer: Ashley Bloom Kenny
Executive producer: Kasia Ceiplak-Mayr von Baldegg

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


Primavera Sound James Rhodes

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

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

This Panda is Dancing

Sander van Dijk animates the poetry of Max Stossel. A simple concept of tracking UI and iconography to a phone done neatly.

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

Spectacle of the Real

A suberb animated promo from Buck for David Blaine’s magic series in the US. Animated forms morph effortlessly from one thing to the next. With VO by Christopher Walken.

Don’t blink

Apple launches their iPhone 7 and new watch with a short 107 second summary of their conference in this video. It’s as simplistic as you’d expect from an Apple video, but always done very well. You can find out more about it’s cleverness here.

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.

Syracuse: Yield

Dress Code create this montage video for Syracuse university, using cut up photos and video in a collage look.  The recruitment video goes past the general sunny campus video and montages voice and archive stills to create a unique video.

The Somme Centenary

Very interesting and poignant sequence on BBC screens. The Centenary of the Battle of the Somme: The Vigil Trailer – BBC Two
Creatives TBC

In Plain Sight titles

A surprisingly effective sequence considering that our brains seem to suggest that there’s more there than there is.  Not sure who the creative is but will update this post when we find out.

Coldplay 'Up & Up'

A great montage juxapositioning unusual images using a lot of old archive footage. Directed by: Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia

The New Old World

Not so keen on the CGI steam-punk book opening, but the photo manipulation using a camera mapping technique on 3D surfaces by Alexey Zakharov is interesting. More of a breakdown can be found on his behance page here.

Infinate Doom

GoldenWolf design”Infinite Doom” as an ident for Adult Swim’s Venture Bros show. An infinate zoom, simply using a series of illustrations with a straight camera pan. Nice illustrations from clever angles add interest to very straight-forward animation.

The Americans – Titles

Been meaning to post this one for a while. It’s from Elastic TV. A great mix of the banal and the political.

American Express: Your Business

Mixtape Club create an advert for American Express involving those little airfix kit style sets, popping each one up in to a nice conclusion for the scenes.

A Kiss, Deferred

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

Save antarctica

What seems to be a fine piece for a hypothetical project by Yu Hyeji using low poly 3D forms. Greenpeace awareness film.