Best of Stash 2021: Advertising
While the bulk of advertising produced each year may induce yawns or irritation, if you look long and hard enough you will find exceptional work that combines creative and technical innovation to...
View ArticleBest of Stash 2021: Music Videos
Offering creative freedom to balance the lack (or total absence) of budget, music videos provide directors, animators, and VFX artists with rare encouragement to prove new techniques and indulge...
View ArticleBest of Stash 2021: Explainers
Magically transforming a dry (often arcane, and potentially dull) topic into an intriguing and engaging piece of visual content requires a special type of motion design alchemy known as the explainer...
View ArticleBest of Stash 2021: Game Films
From classic cartoon comedy by a Pixar veteran to a nine-minute photoreal post-apocalyptic epic, these eight very different films produced for the gaming industry all feature strong character...
View ArticleBest of Stash 2021: VFX
In the right hands, the superpower of digital visual effects allows the impossible to be recast as reality. When thoughtfully integrated with live-action to support (rather than upstage) the narrative,...
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Plátano de Canarias “La Palma Renacerá” by Manson and Bliss
The cel and CG animation crews at Bliss in Barcelona partner with directors Pau López, Gerardo del Hierro, and Tomás Peña (aka Manson) to craft a message of hope in response to the Cumbre Vieja volcano...
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“Arcadia” Short Film / NFT by Andrés Reisinger, RAC, and Arch Hades
Barcelona director/animator and CG artist Andrés Reisinger teams with Portland-based musician/producer André Allen Anjos (aka RAC), and British poet Arch Hades for a 10-minute “journey through our...
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Netflix “Hilda & The Mountain King” Titles by Giant Ant
The Netflix feature-Length special Hilda & The Mountain King opens with these titles by Giant Ant, a “software-agnostic” mix of 2.5-D and cel animation designed to “give the audience a taste of...
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“2022 WCK Preseason Invitational” Opening Sequence by GOFF
From the team at GOFF studio in Seoul, South Korea: “We created the 2022 Wild Rift Champions Preseason Invitational opening sequence based on the colors of blue and red with glow and glitch effects...
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“Forever” Short Film by Mitch McGlocklin
Director Mitch McGlocklin in Los Angeles: “A life insurance company uses an AI algorithm to determine the risk of a new applicant. The subsequent denial sparks a period of introspection for the...
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Optical Arts Highlights the Technology of Domestic Abuse for Refuge
Directors Fabrice Le Nezet and Dan Tobin Smith at Optical Arts in London leverage the language and tone of modern smartphone ads to deliver an unsettling message for UK domestic abuse charity Refuge....
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Yat Fung Leung Conjures Memories of Childhood in “Snack F#ck No Series”
Motion designer Yat Fung Leung in Hong Kong: “What started as a fun little streaming project for Huevember 2021 became a huge exploration into a style that I was unfamiliar with. Taking inspiration...
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Dorian & Daniel Craft a Not So Wonderful World for Erste Bank
With a series of jarring miniature vignettes, Zauberberg directing team Dorian & Daniel make the case that the future of climate change is “In Our Hands” for Austria’s Erste Bank thru agency Jung...
View Article“ADVENT x FAREWELL” Short Film / NFT Diptych by Fabian Aerts
Motion Designer and 3D Artist Fabian Aerts in Brussels, Belgium: “‘ADVENT x FAREWELL’ was designed as a diptych which symbolizes the beginning and the end of an era, birth and death that accompanies...
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FXX “Always Sunny in Philadelphia” S15 Graphics Package by Block & Tackle
From the team at Block & Tackle in New York: “Everyone’s got that herd mentality these days, hunkered down in our tribes, modeling behavior on whatever’s trendy at the moment… without thinking. “In...
View ArticleScholar Adds EPs Kate Aspell and Ryan McLaughlin in New York
From the release: Scholar welcomes Kate Aspell and congratulates former Head of Production Ryan McLaughlin on their new roles as Executive Producers in the New York studio. Along with recent strategic...
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BlinkInk’s Renee Zhan Asks “What’s that Lurking in the Basement?”
In her debut work with London prodco BlinkInk, director Renee Zhan mixes heavy metal and horror tropes in a puppet-driven appeal to Austrians to exterminate the old and inefficient furnaces hulking in...
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Swiss line Cosmetics Diamond Line Launch Film by Miki Nemcek
In the follow up to his Swiss line “Force Vitale” launch film, Prague-based director/animator and CG artist Miki Nemcek merges the fluid and the crystalline for the launch of the luxury cosmetic...
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“New York City” Loop by DeeKay Kwon
Director/animator Deekay Kwon: “I lived in NY for 12 years and it’s a place where I grew myself as an artist. Started with only pencil doodling skills at the age of 18 then climbed my way up to fall in...
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Adidas “Dame 8” Product Film by Loop
From the team at Loop in Moscow: “Another collaboration with Adidas, this time for the brand new Dame 8 shoe line. “Expanding on the general aesthetics of the design lab we created earlier, in this...
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