Director/artist Nick Losq updates his site with new work and new reel.

Football? socialism? amazing motion design? yes, and you should like it before you even finish watching it. Performed by Bill Maher & Directed and Animated by Fraser Davidson

Screen social in London has two events coming up, one Thursday, Jan. 12 @ the ICA and another Wednesday, Jan. 18 @ The Book Club EC2. More details here.

John Robson updates with a trailer to his new short Onward and other projects.

Filmmaker Jesse Rosten makes a statement on standards of beauty in Fotoshop by Adobé.

A tribute to bluesologist Gil Scott-Heron by Steffan Knoesgaard.

Change the Thought, reppin’ Denver CO, released their first reel.

Ryan Rothermel, aka Decoy, updates his site with some awesome new work.

New reel with loads of new work from Austria’s Eat My Dear. Nice and cheerful audio by We Say We Say.

Strange, weird, absurd. Doomed! A pilot for a series by director Guillermo García Carsí (Pocoyo) and produced by El Señor Studio.

Valins & Co., Kiera Ormut-Fleishman and Luis Aguirre create The Bearable Lightness of Packing for Diane von Furstenberg.

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Hajime Nagatsuka loops a concept for the World Table Tennis Championships 2011.

Paul Tuersley’s After Effects scripts have helped me countless times. With OpenSesame, he’s figured out how to make After Effects files backwards compatible. Someone buy this man a beer!

Worked with Yurcor lately? The Animation Guild wants to help. Check out this post and fill out the form.

Part of a Bigger Plan takes us on a magical joyride through a Louis Vuitton-inspired universe in “Bag Charms.” The Ambassadors Design & Animation team handled animation.

Matijn Hogenkamp of PlusOne directs an epic trailer for the the Amsterdam Museum’s new exhibition: Amsterdam DNA.  Read more about the project at the museum site and check out the process/credits at PlusOne.

Studio AKA’s David Prosser for the Norwegian oil & gas company, Statoil.

Brand spanking new site for west coast powerhouse Brian Michael Gossett.

Cineversity, the official Cinema 4D training site from Maxon, has relaunched with a new look, new features and loads of new content.

Lonely Little Teacup by Linnea Sterte.

Posterity is a limited edition series of posters for good. Designed by The Mill’s creative staff and its extended network of artist friends, this poster series has been created as a part of the 50/50 initiative to aid the famine relief efforts in East Africa.

Argentina-based Studio Ronda with another fun spot, Domino Party.

BEELD creates this unique and poetic short film for Telecine Network.

Sehsucht destroys a microscopic city for Vorwerk in “Stadt der Milben.” Making-of here.

Blizzard reveals an epic intro cinematic for Diablo III. (Thanks, Ash!)