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My Paperhouse On Fire

Sebastian Haslauer and Sebastian Koch lovingly crafted this new music video for phon°noir’s “My Paperhouse On Fire.” The Dada-esque collage style is punctuated throughout by… Read more

The Girl Effect

This intro video for The Girl Effect shows just how powerful concise writing and simple animation can be. It was created for agency W&K Portland… Read more

XYZ Studios: Australian Grown

Commissioned by agency Cummins Nitro, Australia’s XYZ Studios created this stunning new :30 spot for “Australian Grown” to introduce their new logo and kick off… Read more

The Balloon

Director/animator Yoann Lemoine under Wanda Production brings us this whimsical animation for French children’s TV station Tiji. What I love about this animation is its… Read more

Impactist: Birthday

Impactist never fails to surprise me. Their latest project is a poetically disturbing mash up of two occasions that seem diametrically opposed: Injured veterans from… Read more

Parasol Island for Sony Ericsson

This new Sony Ericsson advert from Parasol Island directed by Steve Scott is a colorful romp through a buffet of typography and illustration styles. The… Read more

Trollback + Dreams

This latest in-house project from Trollbäck+Co challenged designers Tetsuro, Peter, Anna, Paul, Emre, Christina and Tolga to create short films that capture the semi-conscious thoughts… Read more

Royale: Jet Blue

Since their epically rad animation for Flaunt and Diesel, there’s hasn’t been much news from LA-based Royale, the studio formed by ex-Exopolis CD Brien Holman,… Read more

PetPunk: The Magnificient Town of Vilnius

PetPunk’s promo for Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania, is a delightfully cacophonous bit of work. Using just about every imaginable animation technique, the project… Read more

Sehsucht: Konzerthaus Dortmund “Black Poem”

This stunning promo from Sehsucht for the Konzerthaus Dortmund concert hall celebrates a new season of musical performances with a lyrical ode to fire. It’s… Read more

Face Punching (UPDATED)

This video by Action Figure has been making the rounds lately, so it seems very well suited to be up here as well. Their site… Read more

Gobelins: Blind Spot

The students of Gobelins never fail to impress. “Blind Spot” isn’t new, but it has been nominated as a Best Student Piece for SIGGRAPH 2008.… Read more

Slim for Richard Gotainer

French motion director Slim (a.k.a. Aniss Slimane) poured a heaping helping of color and sunshine into this whimsical music video for 80s pop star Richard… Read more

Flash Player 10 Beta: “Astro”

I recently stumbled onto an interesting site from Lee Brimelow called gotoandlearn.com. While it’s essentially a tutorial site, it also gives you some great new… Read more

JL Design: HiHD

It’s been a while since we’ve posted JL Design, but Johnason Lo and company have been busy building some beautiful IDs for HiHD, Taiwan’s first… Read more

Nokia Style Guide

Taking illustrations from James Taylor as their starting point, James “Mutanthands” Wignall and co-animator Mark Warrington built a little Pied Piper narrative for agency fivefootsix,… Read more

Koichiro Tsujikawa: Cornelius “Omstart”

QuickTime version at the Boards Screening Room Recently posted Koichiro Tsujikawa has created another beautifully strange video for Japanese musician Cornelius. This one appears to… Read more

Motion Theory for Weezer and O2

Weezer “Pork and Beans” Motion Theory co-founder and director Mathew Cullen has been busy lately. There’s a good chance you’ve already seen his music video… Read more

Weezer “Pork and Beans” Credits

Artist: Weezer Label: DGC/Interscope Records Music Video Commissioner: Kathy Angstadt PRODUCTION CO: Motion Theory Director: Mathew Cullen DP: Jack Green, ASC Producer: Bernard Rahill Production… Read more

Birdo: Resfest 10

Brazilian animation studio Birdo put their prodigious talents to use in this quirky opener for the Brazil installment of Resfest 10. Says Paulo Muppet of… Read more

Cassiano Prado for ZeroUm

Cassiano Prado has released another project in his minimalist series of works for music group ZeroUm. As with the live visuals he created for the… Read more

Florian Witzel

Here is the brand new site of Florian Witzel, another super talent living in New York City (originally from Germany). Florian is a designer, director… Read more

League of Clutch

So I am a big sports fan and have been adamantly watching the Celtics this post season (that’s basketball for those of you out there… Read more

Korb – I’ll be gone

I’ve always been a sucker for a simple idea well executed. And right now I can’t think of a piece that achieves it better than… Read more