A new promo for Kriill shows youth in crises
With artistic angles, smooth animation, and sharp backgrounds, Hurt People Hurt People is beautiful, deeply expressive, and wonderfully weird.
eSports' fantasy football
It's a sensory overload as eLaLiga Santander takes to the pitch in this high-octane, colourful new campaign.
Sky's the limit for Harris and his robots
BB8, Megatron and Iron Man... along with a little boy called Harris... feature in this new campaign for Sky Q, the first in a five-part series.
The Volvo human rights violation of 1959
Eerily pertinent, present-day survivors of car crashes read aloud statements sent to Volvo by angry customers when the car company first introduced the three-point seatbelt over 60 years ago.
In the Mouth Quest of madness
In his latest collaboration with W+K Portland for Trolli, Sam Gainsborough smashes together five gummy-gobbling shorts into one epic stop-motion masacre.
Back Market’s front-end tech takedown
With this clipart-crazy, fast-paced, vibrant ad, Fallon supports a disruptor in the tech marketplace by being as obnoxious and in your face as possible.
An artful ode to breakup pain
In Lisette Donkersloot's striking promo for Novo Amor's I Feel Better, the betrayal, heartache, solitude and rebirth splitting up brings on is dramatically captured.
Alexa, break the fourth wall
In a pair of comedic spots from Droga5 for Amazon's omnipresent assistant, high drama is cut-off by audience members' specific demands.
A new promo for Kriill shows youth in crises
With artistic angles, smooth animation, and sharp backgrounds, Hurt People Hurt People is beautiful, deeply expressive, and wonderfully weird.
eSports' fantasy football
It's a sensory overload as eLaLiga Santander takes to the pitch in this high-octane, colourful new campaign.
Sky's the limit for Harris and his robots
BB8, Megatron and Iron Man... along with a little boy called Harris... feature in this new campaign for Sky Q, the first in a five-part series.
The Volvo human rights violation of 1959
Eerily pertinent, present-day survivors of car crashes read aloud statements sent to Volvo by angry customers when the car company first introduced the three-point seatbelt over 60 years ago.
In the Mouth Quest of madness
In his latest collaboration with W+K Portland for Trolli, Sam Gainsborough smashes together five gummy-gobbling shorts into one epic stop-motion masacre.
Back Market’s front-end tech takedown
With this clipart-crazy, fast-paced, vibrant ad, Fallon supports a disruptor in the tech marketplace by being as obnoxious and in your face as possible.
An artful ode to breakup pain
In Lisette Donkersloot's striking promo for Novo Amor's I Feel Better, the betrayal, heartache, solitude and rebirth splitting up brings on is dramatically captured.
Alexa, break the fourth wall
In a pair of comedic spots from Droga5 for Amazon's omnipresent assistant, high drama is cut-off by audience members' specific demands.
Q&As and behind-the-scenes info on the latest and greatest commercials, shorts and music videos.
HowworldscollideinSky'snewcampaign
A new spot for Sky Q sees characters from Star Wars, Marvel and Transformers combine with a 12-year-old boy. Here, director Dan DiFelice and Sky Creative ECD Robin Garton give us the lowdown on fusing worlds for the high-concept campaign.
Greenpeace tackles a monster problem
In 2018 Greenpeace UK’s Rang Tan, shot to fame when it was banned from UK TV screens after being deemed too political by the advertising approval agency. Now Greenpeace is back with another hard-hitting film about the consequences of deforestation.
How an animatic can be authored anarchy
Keith Schofield's jaw-dropping, idea-packed, digital-puppeteering music video for Duck Sauce's Mesmerize was released at the weekend onto an unsuspecting audience. We caught up with him to talk appropriating celeb's heads, questioning the existence of reality and journeying through an army of anuses.
The kids are alright in revealing short doc
Charlotte Regan takes us behind the scenes of her sweet, insightful short doc, No Ball Games, which gives us a glimpse into the lives of children living in underprivileged areas of the UK and how they spend their leisure time.
How to give animation a Heartbeat
Filled with a painterly technique created using Procreate on iPad and After Effects wizardry, Kyra Bartley's moving Heartbeats for Save our Sons had a style that was as mesmerising as the spot was devastating. We spoke to her about how she swirled her digital paintbrush through our emotions.
RadicalMedia sign director Brian Oakes
Oakes began his career in the film industry as a motion graphics designer and animator.
Serial Pictures welcomes filmmaker Bradford Young
Young joins for director representation for branded entertainment, commercials and music videos.
Weekly Rewind: October 23rd, 2020
This week's round-up of the most interesting stories from the world wide web includes furious finales, quitting Quibi, bulletproof Banksy and musical milestones...
HAMLET sign award winning comedy director Sebastien Petretti
Petretti signs to their roster for European and Asian representation.
Nomad sign editor Jamie O’Donnell
Starting his career working in hotel management before making the switch to a career as a commercials editor, it's been an interesting path for O’Donnell.
Caviar sign British filmmaker & screenwriter Lainey Richardson
Caviar are super excited to announce the signing of British filmmaker & screenwriter Lainey Richardson for commercial & music video representation in the UK & Holland.
- Starcom launches McCoy’s Muchos Tortilla Takedown for KP Snacks
- Gang Films shoot global Perrier spot with Green Olive Films in Greece
- Cannes Lions presents - Home of Creativity: LIONS
- Antfood produces new sonic branding for CBS
- New Blood Is Thicker film launches as inspiring call to action to saving black lives
- Make Your Morning Moment with the relaunch of NESCAFÉ Original
- Glenfiddich asks Where Next? in striking new global campaign
- MTN DEW disrupts marketing conventions with latest creative
- Presidential face off in satirical new campaign
- Johan Stahl Makes a Blockbuster Statement for Justice
RadicalMedia sign director Brian Oakes
Oakes began his career in the film industry as a motion graphics designer and animator.
Serial Pictures welcomes filmmaker Bradford Young
Young joins for director representation for branded entertainment, commercials and music videos.
Weekly Rewind: October 23rd, 2020
This week's round-up of the most interesting stories from the world wide web includes furious finales, quitting Quibi, bulletproof Banksy and musical milestones...
HAMLET sign award winning comedy director Sebastien Petretti
Petretti signs to their roster for European and Asian representation.
Nomad sign editor Jamie O’Donnell
Starting his career working in hotel management before making the switch to a career as a commercials editor, it's been an interesting path for O’Donnell.
Caviar sign British filmmaker & screenwriter Lainey Richardson
Caviar are super excited to announce the signing of British filmmaker & screenwriter Lainey Richardson for commercial & music video representation in the UK & Holland.
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Meena Ayittey: Showing it like it is
The daughter of Ghanaian immigrants, Meena Ayittey eschewed her parents’ conventional career aspirations to forge a successful career in the creative industries. Recently signed to Great Guns, she finds rich filmic inspiration in the concept of racism, from her heartrending tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement to a new documentary lifting the lid on creatives of colour and the challenges of adland.
Creative Correspondence: Andreas Nilsson and Ben Campbell
From whale poop, to rockhopper penguins; from the importance of planning to the influence of artists, The Quarry's Ben Campbell and Biscuit's Andreas Nilsson have the email correspondence you didn't know you needed to read.
Em Weinstein’s queer homecoming
We talk to emerging director Em Weinstein about their recent win at Outfest, how to disrupt the gender binaries in film, how to make festivals more approachable, and what it will take to make storytelling more inclusive.
Playlist: Kaitlyn Battistelli
We chat with Ethos Studios colorist Kaitlyn Battistelli about VH1 video facts, grading for Grimes and learning how to knit!
Art of Advertising: Tony Yacenda
Merging tongue-in-cheek satirical instincts and an obsession with internet humor, Tony Yacenda, of SMUGGLER, shares his inspirations and the artistic wells he draws from.
On My Radar: Munzie Thind
GCRS' Sound Designer Munzie Thind cites a perfick comedy and a recent rave retrospective as two of his inspirations and, for our diversity focus, he reveals his experiences of working in the advertising industry in the early 90s.
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