British-native Neil Bond directed and animated this new music video for the PHD, a hip hop crew based in Auckland. Bond crafted the video for the song All The Same using stop-motion.

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Here’s a new music video for a track in the upcoming Moomins and the Comet Chase feature. The film was produced by the Finnish company Filmkompaniet.

The trailer for the film has been out for a while, but here’s another look:

The latest episode of College Humor’s IRL Files, where almost-unbelievable true stories are retold in animated form, we’re treated to a story of unexpected debauchery, revealed in film-noir style. I believe David Fishel directed and Chelsea Manifold animated. This segment is titled A Text In The Night.

Remember this? In 2003, 150 lawmakers and political activists fasted to protest the MTV animated series Clone High. They were angry over what they saw as an inappropriate depiction of their deceased political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi. I’m guessing the same uproar won’t occur after this Sunday’s episode (12:30 am on Adult Swim) of Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole, which sees Gandhi turned into a vampire, but that remains to be seen.

Last year we did a couple of posts highlighting British Gas spots directed by Guilherme Marcondes over at Hornet, Inc, in NYC. This year, British Gas calls upon Hornet and Marcondes again for another round of stunning spots, starting with this one called Call Back. Returning to the helm of animating these spots in After effects are Mike Luzzi, and Frank Summers who are joined by Joe Andriola and Mark Pecoraro. Just an FYI, this spot in particular had more characters in it than any spot of the whole campaign so far, the amusement park planet itself had 50 people, and in case you wondering, that’s a helluva lot of work, and almost certainly with the same schedule as the lesser “casted” spots. Anyways, nice job you guys!

Darcy Prendergast employed a small squad of animated blobs to help tell a tale of love and attraction in this music video below. It’s for Sam Buckingham’s song Gravity, and Prendergast had help from Michael Greaney, Seamus Spilsbury and Josh Thomas on the animation.

This Sunday’s episode of Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole visits Hollywood’s very own Ron Howard, child actor turned big time feature director. Here’s a clip. The episode, titled Ronny Ron Ronald, airs at 12:30am on Sunday, August 1st.