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In this great ad for SickKids Hospital (aka The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto), children battling illnesses are depicted as gladiators. Via Adweek: In the centerpiece anthem, titled “SickKids VS: Undeniable,” ailing children, alongside their families, doctors, nurses and other hospital staff, all gird for battle—as medieval soldiers, pro wrestlers taking baseball bats to […]

Great stop motion ad for the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival titled “Dream” (feat. Natalie Bergman, Ryan Merchant, Keenan O’Meara & Tal Altman). Via Adweek: There are things we just don’t see—remote places under the sea, in the savannah or covered in snow, whose joys, dramas and tragedies we aren’t privy to. And yet we affect […]

Two Pixar animators, Lou Hamou-Lhadj & Andrew Coats, made this short film titled Borrowed Time, a gorgeous Western for adults. An old sheriff returns to the scene of a past mistake. Via Short of the Week: An unusually accomplished 3D animation landed on Vimeo yesterday, a passion project over 5 years in the making from […]

ICYMI 2: Blur Studios’ incredible Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Eternal Throne expansion trailer. Wow! More of a short film than a trailer. Blur Studios has often been (deservedly) called the Pixar of game animation. Via Collider: For the uninitiated, Star Wars: The Old Republic is an award-winning BioWare Online RPG set […]

ICYMI: Star Wars has released its second story trailer for its upcoming 2016 film, Rogue One, which takes place between Episode 3 and 4. Via the Sydney Morning Herald: “The power that we are dealing with here is immeasurable,” says Ben Mendelsohn as a sinister force in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. It’s a […]

Pedigree’s great, emotional Dark to Light ad is timed for Blindness Awareness Month. It features someone who suddenly goes blind and her guide dog. More via Adweek: The video, made by BBDO, packs a lot of tension and suspense into three minutes. Oleksa’s initial fear and panic after going suddenly blind feel very immediate thanks […]

The diamond industry’s first ad in half a decade targets, unsurprisingly, millennials… with the tagline ‘Real is Rare. Real is a Diamond’. Umm. Not sure if we’re sold on that, but more via Adweek: “The data shows that millennials buy the most diamonds in the U.S., so this is a proactive measure to make sure […]

Funny Girls parodies truck commercials, replacing the man behind the wheel with a woman, to the surprise of the voice over. Via DesignTaxi: It is no secret that SUVs and trucks have a history of marketing towards men. The throaty male voice-over, coupled with scenes of the truck driving over trails and rivers, are all […]

Planet Unknown is a really impressive student project by Shawn Wang, a science fiction short reminiscent of Wall-E and Wire Cutters. Via Short of the Week: To put it simply…Planet Unknown is glorious, unapologetic eye-candy! Overflowing with carefully-created textures, particles and environments, Wang’s vivid visuals are a real joy to behold. In fact, Wang’s film […]

This ASUS phone ad is street sourced from ordinary New Yorkers, and the result, perhaps predictably, is sheer lolsy chaos. The public sure does love its dinosaurs. From Creativity Online: Asus, the Taiwanese computer brand, asked ordinary New Yorkers to come up with ideas for a new commercial to launch its ZenFone 3 smartphone — […]