Juan Cabral and MJZ “Share the Joy” for Apple
MJZ director Juan Cabral, whose penchant for whimsy and magic realism is on full display here, imports carefully choreographed blasts of snow to steamy Buenos Aires in this holiday spot for Apple’s...
View ArticleZhiben “Duo Yuan” Product Film by Frame and Final Frontier
Thomas Bay, founder and EP at Frame in Copenhagen: “Luxury skincare company, Zhiben engaged us to create a new film for its Total Solution Ultra-effective Series. The product was created to revitalize...
View ArticleDisturbed “Bad Man” Music Video by Tristan Holmes and Midjourney
With help from Midjourney, director Tristan Holmes conjures 10,000+ AI-generated frames and animates them into a relentless protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine for Chicago heavy metal band...
View ArticleStudio Something Opens the 2022 World Cup on BBC
The 2022 World Cup finally kicked off today in Qatar with BBC’s coverage preceded by this boisterous motion sequence designed by Edinburgh’s Studio Something to celebrate the rhythms of the game. From...
View ArticleCreative Mammals Reveal Atlanta Hawks’ Peach City Edition Jersey
From the team at Creative Mammals: “While the main point of this promo was to reveal the Atlanta Hawks’ latest City Edition jersey, we also needed to capture the city’s unique energy and the heartfelt...
View ArticleMOGI Moloka Brand Film by Knock-Knock Animation
Knock-Knock Animation in Taipei, Taiwan just popped onto the Stash radar with this cute animated brand film featuring the Moloka line of characters from MOGI Toys. Here’s how the team at Knock-Knock...
View ArticleEmmy Winner Chris Sargent Signs to Merchant for Canadian Representation
From the release: Canadian production company Merchant welcomes award-winning director Christopher Sargent for commercial representation in Canada. Sargent began his career as a visual effects...
View ArticleJohnny Kelly and Andy Gent Untangle “The Monster” for Back Market
Nexus director Johnny Kelly melds stop-motion, 2D facial animation, and the talents of UK puppetmaster Andy Gent into a message advocating conscious consumption for renewed devices marketplace Back...
View ArticleTendril Launches Hublot’s World Cup Qatar 2022 Watch
All the real-time football action tracking features of Hublot’s new limited-edition FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 smartwatch get their close-ups in this striking launch film from the Tendril crew. From the...
View ArticleTheos “Worlds Apart” Explainer by Emily Downe
Director/animator Emily Downe in London: “Worlds Apart is a short animation that travels through a whirlwind of questions surrounding the science and religion debate. “The film invites the viewer into...
View ArticleReunion Animates “The Transatlantic Slave Trade” for The Equal Justice...
Creative director Chris Carboni and his crew at Reunion in Brooklyn partner with US non-profit The Equal Justice Initiative to animate six films about the history of slavery and racial injustice in...
View ArticleNoah Harris Loses His Popping Mind for Pringles
Agile Films’ director Noak Harris and the crew at Halo Post in London pop open 20 seconds of silly for Pringles in this very 2022 seasonal merger of Christmas and soccer thru Grey London. From Grey...
View ArticleTommy Lee x Smearballs “Bouncy Castle” feat. Brittany Furlan
Toronto director/animator Nick DenBoer (aka Smearballs), whose signature brand of CG chaos ranges from festival openings to deadmau5 videos, joins forces with heavy metal bad boy Tommy Lee for an...
View ArticleJordan Clarke Meets an AI who Wants to be Famous
Toronto director/animator Jordan Clarke closes out his “f*ckai?” series of short films with a five-minute opus that ramps up his process of hand-animating 3D to a story generated by OpenAI in response...
View ArticleA Future AI Searches for Identity in “WAI-000” Short Film
CG artists Woosung Kang, Gryun Kim, and Taehoon Park just dropped this riveting and passionately detailed promo for their advanced Cinema 4D master class available thru Korean online education platform...
View ArticleScholar “Seize the Play” for Valorant with Game Changers Championship Trailer
The design/animation crew at Scholar celebrate the power of woman gamers in this hyper-kinetic trailer for the first Valorant Game Changers Championship which just wrapped in Berlin and featured the...
View Article“Wednesday” Series Main Titles by Filmograph
Director Tim Burton’s first shot at television, the new Netflix series Wednesday, opens with these appropriately spooky and only occasionally kooky titles from CD Aaron Becker and the crew at...
View ArticleVan Cleef & Arpels “Alhambra Christmas” Brand Film by Burcu & Geoffrey
From the team at prodco and animation studio Troublemakers in Paris: “The Van Cleef & Arpels Alhambra Collection campaign first came to life five years ago thanks to the agency Mazarine, directing...
View ArticleWoodkid “Reactor” Music Video by Saad Moosajee
Working with a tiny but mighty animation team, Stink director Saad Moosajee imagines a suffocating world punctuated by glimpses of dance for Grammy-nominated French singer-songwriter (and fellow...
View ArticleDirector Bea Höller Explores Female Sexuality in “Klimax” Short Film
Produced as part of her animation studies at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany, director Bea Höller says her short film Klimax is “meant to show how unique and beautiful every woman’s body is.”...
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