Deeply caring and utterly magical
Atmospheric and Escherine, this pastel-normcore promo is beautifully soft and wonderfully bizarre, featuring the haunting talent of Meryem Aboulouafa.
You'll love Foxes' Love Not Loving You
The singer/songwriter returns to get us dancing away our COVID blues with an exuberant, scrapbook video shot in lockdown.
Hedvig wants you to worry less about your stuff
In a surprising campaign from the Swedish insurance company, theft and damage are brushed off as inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.
Extinction Rebellion tackles gigantic problem with new film
This new animated story, featuring the voice of Whoopi Goldberg, is set in the future, looking back at how the world came together to try to save the environment.
Fran Healy gets animated in new Travis promo
Travis frontman Fran Healy stars in and directs the band's latest promo as he takes a stroll through a ghost-filled world.
Lifebridge Health only asks us to stand witness
Covid Cares is a moving, almost entirely silent ad that creates a space for grief, hurt, anger, and shows the impact of the pandemic crises on the front line.
DDB Paris pays The Price for HONDA Moto
The agency creates a thrilling montage of POV footage to showcase the joys and woes of motorcycle ownership.
Loneliness Unmasked in new short
Two people bump into each other - literally - while the lockdown rules are in full effect as this intimate short examines the effects of lockdown loneliness.
Deeply caring and utterly magical
Atmospheric and Escherine, this pastel-normcore promo is beautifully soft and wonderfully bizarre, featuring the haunting talent of Meryem Aboulouafa.
You'll love Foxes' Love Not Loving You
The singer/songwriter returns to get us dancing away our COVID blues with an exuberant, scrapbook video shot in lockdown.
Hedvig wants you to worry less about your stuff
In a surprising campaign from the Swedish insurance company, theft and damage are brushed off as inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.
Extinction Rebellion tackles gigantic problem with new film
This new animated story, featuring the voice of Whoopi Goldberg, is set in the future, looking back at how the world came together to try to save the environment.
Fran Healy gets animated in new Travis promo
Travis frontman Fran Healy stars in and directs the band's latest promo as he takes a stroll through a ghost-filled world.
Lifebridge Health only asks us to stand witness
Covid Cares is a moving, almost entirely silent ad that creates a space for grief, hurt, anger, and shows the impact of the pandemic crises on the front line.
DDB Paris pays The Price for HONDA Moto
The agency creates a thrilling montage of POV footage to showcase the joys and woes of motorcycle ownership.
Loneliness Unmasked in new short
Two people bump into each other - literally - while the lockdown rules are in full effect as this intimate short examines the effects of lockdown loneliness.
Q&As and behind-the-scenes info on the latest and greatest commercials, shorts and music videos.
Howtoplaygamesforgood
We chat to Dark Horses senior creative Adam Burns and Outsider director Tom Day about their quick-off-the-mark lockdown film for mental health charity Football Beyond Borders.
Nike's powerful ode to the unstoppable Shim Suk-hee
The South Korean gold medalist speed skater and national icon's bravery in confronting her experience with systematic physical, sexual and mental abuse is poetically visualised in this rousing spot from Crown&Owls.
How to make a Japanese anime for a contemporary brand
Creative Director for YT, Andreas John, talks about how The Line and SHIFT Active Media made an animated world come to life, building on a concept and creating an immersive, folkloric, contemporary cityscape.
How to... build a LEGO car chase
Last week saw the release of a new, high-octane LEGO spot. Here, the director, producer and VFX Supervisor give detailed insight into how they created 'The Fast and the Furious on a kitchen floor'.
How an old animation technique proved to be a fresh approach
Directing duo Lamar+Nik employed the more than century-old technique of kinegrams for their most recent promo for Husbands. Here they explain the labour-intensive, but highly effective, processes while asking the band their thoughts on the video.
AMP elects Georg Bissen national president and announces date for 2020 Virtual AMP Awards
Formerly President of the AMP East Board, Bissen succeeds Elad Marish in leadership role as music producers’ group sets July 14 for its virtual awards show.
Weekly Rewind: June 5th, 2020
This week's round-up of the most interesting stories from the world wide web is, unsurprisingly, Black Lives Matter-focussed, including educational links, changinges in toy-lines, actors speaking out and filmic tomes.
Laura Sirvent joins Troublemakers
Laura Sirvent has collaborated with studios like Cabeza Patata, Moth Studio and Clim.
VFX director Mat Fuller joins Seed’s roster
Mat got the attention of Seed’s owner,Roy Skillicorn, during the recent quarantine, by not missing a beat and working remotely, right through it.
Director Dani Pearce joins the roster at Revolver, Henry & Anorak
Perace joins for representation in Australia/NZ & Asia, France & Germany respectively.
- The Producers live stream with international audience
- Not To Scale and adam&eveDDB create playful spots for Schmackos
- Sky Creative Agency creates The Comeback for Sky Sports
- Evocative short Learning From The Wind explores separation and communication in lockdown
- New TV spot All You Need Is Love for Covid-19
- 1stAveMachine and The Gotham Group launch YouTube series Gotham Reads
- Anomaly and Pride in London launch 2020 campaign
- The&Partnership craft latest spot for Toyota
- A tribute to New Yorkers and the city’s front-line workers
- BBH & Hamlet show us the future of tech with a human connection for Samsung
AMP elects Georg Bissen national president and announces date for 2020 Virtual AMP Awards
Formerly President of the AMP East Board, Bissen succeeds Elad Marish in leadership role as music producers’ group sets July 14 for its virtual awards show.
Weekly Rewind: June 5th, 2020
This week's round-up of the most interesting stories from the world wide web is, unsurprisingly, Black Lives Matter-focussed, including educational links, changinges in toy-lines, actors speaking out and filmic tomes.
Laura Sirvent joins Troublemakers
Laura Sirvent has collaborated with studios like Cabeza Patata, Moth Studio and Clim.
VFX director Mat Fuller joins Seed’s roster
Mat got the attention of Seed’s owner,Roy Skillicorn, during the recent quarantine, by not missing a beat and working remotely, right through it.
Director Dani Pearce joins the roster at Revolver, Henry & Anorak
Perace joins for representation in Australia/NZ & Asia, France & Germany respectively.
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Shining a spotlight on Shynola's 20-year legacy
While Shynola, the three-man directing group, started out in animation, after two decades of working together they're pushing themselves and looking forward to the next wave of experimental work.
How Nick Cinelli's Bird With No Legs got him up and running
Studio Linguini director Nick Cinelli picked up a coveted Young Director Award last year for his animated short, A Bird With No Legs. He discusses the beauty of animation, the pros and cons of working within the school system, and how the YDA gave him a 'gust of confidence'.
Tiny Inventions on smart animation
1stAveMachine's Oscar-nominated directing duo of Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata speak to Carol Cooper about finding the new in existing forms, expressing the clarity of the craft and how animation is a contrast to, not substitute for, live-action shooting.
One Track Mind: Paul Greco
Executive Director of Music and Audio at Wunderman Thompson New York, Paul Greco, has been leaning on Bill Withers and knows the song which will get him "out of his chair and ready to go", as he reveals his Isolation Radio Station playlist.
Playlist: Daniella Manca
Daniella Manca is Head of Music and Content at Caviar, here she talks about MTV's glory days, female Surrealists and pasta!
Art of Advertising: Maureen Hufnagel
Coming at us with a ton of amazing directors who have inspired and influenced her work, LANDIA director Maureen Hufnagel goes into the delightfully surreal, strange, and discomforting.
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