“Final_Final” by Matt Greenwood
Matt Greenwood, animator, motion designer, and creative director at Nice Shoes in Toronto on his new personal project debuted at Pictoplasma 2018: “I made Final_Final with no script or planning. Each...
View ArticleFinal Frontier Launches in China with Roster of International Animation...
From the release: SHANGHAI, CHINA (May 11, 2018) – Final Frontier officially launched on May 11th, becoming the first international production company on the ground in China representing a roster of...
View ArticleGoogle I/O “Make Good Things Together” by Fx Goby
The 2018 Google I/O conference keynote opened with this immense yet lovable animated film that Nexus director Fx Goby describes as “a story about the power of a community working together to make good...
View ArticleVICE Film School “Venom Superman” by Joseph Melhuish
London illustrator and animation director Joseph Melhuish: “VICE invited me to make three short films documenting stories from behind the scenes of some of their most notorious documentaries. “In...
View ArticlePOM Wonderful “Impaled by a Dolphin”
Arts & Sciences director Michael Illick gives pharma ads a much-deserved poke in this bonkers parody for POM Wonderful featuring a practical dolphin with digital VFX support from Carbon. From...
View ArticleThe Eight-Year Adventure to “Little Big Awesome”
In July 2010, Stash published an 11-minute spec pilot for a kids animated TV series called “Gluko & Lennon” and I remember thinking, “this is way too insane/genius to ever get a green light.”...
View ArticleBehold “Grandma’s Spaghetti” by Colorbleed Studios
Discover the deeper meanings of young love, meatballs, and the danger of open flames at dinner in “Grandma’s Spaghetti,” a raving piece of CG madness directed Roy Nieterau and Danny Vos at Dutch 3D...
View Article“36 Days of Type” by Ben Huynh
Ben Huynh in Long Beach, CA: “36 Days of Type is a yearly open call inviting designers, illustrators and visual artists to share their view on the letters and numbers from our alphabet.”...
View Article“Darrel” by Marc Briones and Alan Carabantes
“Darrel,” the animated black comedy short by Spanish co-directors Marc Briones and Alan Carabantes, chronicles the ill-fated flirtations of two luckless chameleons waiting for the subway. Fresh off a...
View ArticleAlex Popescu Creates “Black Mass” Music Video in Realtime with Unreal Engine
Melbourne visual artist Alex Popescu, nudges the boundaries of filmmaking forward crafting this enigmatic music video for Seattle artist LEViT∆TE using realtime 3D rendering technology. Alex Popescu:...
View ArticleBBC World Cup 2018 “The Tapestry” by Nicos Livesey
Blinkink director Nicos Livesey and The London Embroidery Studio transform 227,000 meters of thread into 600+ frames of animated tapestry in this formidable launch spot for the BBC’s coverage of the...
View ArticleFramestore London Names Grant Walker and Ahmed Gharraph New Joint Heads of CG
From the release: Framestore is pleased to announce the promotion of Grant Walker and Ahmed Gharraph to Joint Heads of CG in London. The two will sit alongside Ross Burgess, Head of Animation, in the...
View ArticleMain Title for “James Cameron’s Story Of Science Fiction” on AMC
Creative Director Duncan Elms at Elastic in LA: “The series had six episodes with the themes, Alien life, Time Travel, Space Exploration, Dark Futures, Intelligent Machines, and Monsters. We created...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes on Overwatch “Trace & Bake”
In May 2016 Blizzard launched a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter called Overwatch with a series of groundbreaking CG trailers. Now, on the game’s second anniversary, Tracer and Reaper get...
View ArticleNxWorries “Lyk Dis” by Andy Baker and Robin Velghe
Belgian designer/illustrator Robin Velghe and London director/animator Andy Baker convey all the lazy, smoky, fantasy-fueled heat required in the this new music video for “Lyk Dis” by NxWorries...
View ArticleChemours “An Ode to the Overlooked” by Luiz Stockler
Director Luiz Stockler in London: “Short piece [for US chemical maker Chemours] in collaboration with Ogilvy & Mather NYC for National Inventors Month commemorating the lesser known inventors of...
View ArticleThe Atlantic “The New American Aristocracy”
In the latest of The Atlantic’s series of visual essays, writer Matthew Stewart argues, 9.9% of the population comprises America’s new aristocracy, which often “takes wealth out of productive...
View Article“Silent Aesthetics” by Peter Tomaszewicz
Peter Tomaszewicz, 3D artist and motion designer in London: “Continuing with my current allure with brutalist architecture and concrete, I felt it was right to explore fashion designers that would...
View ArticleMeet Nervous Jeffrey, Calm Jeffrey and Freaking-out Jeffrey
Westworld actor Jeffrey Wright transforms into three airline passengers with drastically different views of the world in this brilliant branded film for The Atlantic by O Positive director David Shane...
View Article“The Diver” Animated Short by Batch
New on the Stash radar: an all-female animation and motion design studio based in Cape Town, South Africa called Batch. And the “The Diver” is the perfectly quirky short film that caught our eye. From...
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