When some of the leading artists in the motion design industry come together, the result is a trippy, surrealist video that is The Exquisite Corpse Project X.

The two-and-a-half-minute spot is a creative collaboration where a work-in-progress is passed from one person to the next. Creative Director Michael Waldron hand picked artists and companies from around the globe to create three-to-five-second original pieces, based only off of snippets that came directly before and after them in the final sequence.

“At one time or another, we have all competed with each other,” said Waldron, senior vice president and creative director of art and design for Nickelodeon, Nick@Nite and TV Land. “It was pretty special to bring everyone together to work on something that was purely a passion project — no strings attached.”

This latest spot is Waldron’s third and final installment of the trilogy, which made its debut this month at motion conference 2016 in Santa Fe, N.M. It will be screened in Los Angeles on Monday, July 18 at a location to be announced on Twitter via Waldron’s handle @tvartboy, followed by a New York screening sometime in August.

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“Even though this was my third year directing, I never know how it will ultimately turn out,” Waldron said. “It was exciting to see work being done in so many different mediums — from live-action to motion graphics to stop-motion animation. Truly an amazing experience. In the end, to see everyone’s reaction to the final piece at motion 2016 was really rewarding.”

Waldron directed the first Exquisite Corpse Project in 2013, and The Exquisite Corpse Project 2, which was awarded a Vimeo Staff Pick, in 2014.

Leftchannel was once again one of the 14 top studios and designers in the world selected to participate in the 2016 project. Led by creative director and founder Alberto Scirocco, the team created three seconds for the project, which features the company’s signature cel animation, 2D and 3D animation, as well as live-action:

Exquisite Corpse X - leftchannel’s piece from leftchannel on Vimeo.

“While collaboration in the artistic world is pretty common, within our industry, unfortunately, it is not,” Scirocco said. “We wish there more were opportunities for community building. We hope this project inspires a greater sense of community.”

Elaine Montoya, motion conference co-founder, described the project as “unequivocally the best collaborative motion design and live-action project to date by some of the top creatives in the industry.”

Although the 2016 project marks the end of the trilogy, it’s also “the beginning of the next story,” Montoya said.

“We wonder,” she said, “What will Michael Waldron think of next?”

Exquisite Corpse Project X Artists and Studios:

Alberto Scirocco (leftchannel)

Ariel Costa (BlinkmyBrain)

Karin Fong (Imaginary Forces)

Greg Gunn (Blind)

Gregory Herman

Erica Haowei Hu

Fionna Mariani (Trollbäck + Company)

Paul Mitchell (The Mill+)

Vinicius Naldi (The Mill+)

Kurt Hartman (Nick)

Marcel Ziul (State Design).

Buster Design

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Charlie Company

Ryan O’Hare (animation)

Stephen Hermann (Explosion Robinson, sound design and score)

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