Friday, Oct. 15, 2021

Bristol, U.K.-based studio Aardman teamed with agency creative specialists Catsnake to develop this watercolor style animated film that celebrates the work of the U.K.’s largest nature conservation charity, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). Titled “Time Flies,” the :60 earned...

Friday, Oct. 15, 2021

Nature appears in varied forms in this quarter’s Top Ten VFX & Animation Chart--from birds depicted artfully in animated watercolor for a PSA promoting the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to a turtle rollerblading through the streets of London, giving us a sense of how passengers...

Friday, Jun. 4, 2021

With a mix of work ranging from bringing back Albert Einstein to fulfilling the promise of a young man whose life was cut short by knife violence, this quarter's Top Ten VFX & Animation Chart strikes a responsive chord with audiences. Einstein advances the need for smart energy in...

Friday, Apr. 2, 2021

Our quarterly Top Ten VFX & Animation Chart hits the ROOF, literally, as the #1 entry, biopharmaceutical company Insmed's "Unbreakable," is from Brooklyn-based ROOF Studio.  The piece creates a visual metaphor, an ailing bunny character, for NTM lung disease, raising awareness and empathy...

Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020

One act of kindness spawns another and then another in this touching pay-it-forward Xmas ad from retailer John Lewis & Partners and groceries/wine chain Waitrose out of agency adam&eveDDB, London.

Titled “Give A Little Love,” the spot deployed the talents of different animators,...

Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020

The John Lewis/Waitrose Xmas ad, a perennial, much anticipated piece of work each year, took on an even more ambitious creative reach by enlisting different talents and animation styles from around the world to tell a heartwarming pay-it-forward story for the holidays. This tour de force piece...

Friday, Oct. 16, 2020

From a martial arts tour de force music video featuring FKA twigs to Nike's inventive split screen spot featuring athletes at their best, this quarter's Top Ten VFX & Animation Chart is a cornucopia of stellar work.

Also in the mix is a Squarespace ode to the dreams--large and small--...

Friday, Aug. 7, 2020

Bodyform & Libresse's "#wombstories" headlines SHOOT's latest quarterly Top Ten VFX & Animation Chart, featuring virtuoso effects work from Framestore London.

Music videos also figure prominently in our latest rundown with clips for Yusuf/Cat Stevens ("Where Do the...

Friday, Apr. 10, 2020

A poignant tug-at-the-heartstrings animated tale in which a turtle family experiences a devastating loss due to the plight of the world's oceans tops SHOOT's first quarter VFX & Animation Chart for 2020. Animation studio Aardman brings us this "Turtle Journey" for Greenpeace.

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Friday, Dec. 13, 2019

This quarter's standout visual effects and animation work is headlined by the poignant Born Free Foundation piece, "The Bitter Bond," from Zombie Studio in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The animated tale shows us how a lion cub is set up to be killed when it reaches adulthood due to the practice of canned...

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