“While You Were Sleeping” by Charlie Stewart
Animator/designer Charlie Stewart in London chooses a soft palette, careful compositions, and measured pacing for his animated exploration of “the longevity and limitations of artificial intelligence,...
View ArticleCVLT Taps Kathrin Lausch as VP of Production
From the release: New York and LA-based content creation studio CVLT Production has tapped Kathrin Lausch to lead as VP Of Production and Client Services. She will also assume the same role for...
View ArticleThinking Outside “The Box” by Dusan Kastelic
Slovenian animator/illustrator Dusan Kastelic’ combines imagery from his own recurring nightmare with a story he’d penned for a comic book years earlier to create a 3D animated mini-masterpiece (and...
View ArticleVince Hurtu’s “Stereovision” Experiment
Motion designer and illustrator Vince Hurtu in Montreal: “Stereovision is an experimental visual and sound essay produced for the D19 event, an evening of non-narrative animation short films screening...
View ArticleBonds X-Temp Briefs Fight GloBALL Warming
From the release: Leo Burnett creative director, Michelle Walsh: “Every bloke gets hot, sweaty balls (so I’m told) but they’ll rarely talk about it, let alone do something about it. “So, this was a...
View ArticleGetting Aggressive About “Intel AI”
From directors Alex Topaller and Daniel Shapiro at Aggresive: “For ‘AI on Intel’ we told five real stories of Intel’s technology in action – from stopping poaching in Africa to powering the world’s...
View ArticleSantander’s Piggy Returns in “The Marathon”
The CG creature crew at Framestore reteam with Rattling Stick director Daniel Kleinman and Arnold Worldwide to create the sophomore adventure for Santander’s porcine hero (watch the first Piggy epic...
View ArticleScooting Along to the “Scooting Song” on Adult Swim
Animation director Daniela Sherer in Tel Aviv animates a musical short commissioned for the Adult Swim Smalls series powered by a bitter (yet catchy) little ditty written by David Hughes and performed...
View ArticleFinding Hope and Friendship in “The Stained Club”
Back in 2005 Stash published “Over Time,” a breakout black and white CG short created at a French computer animation school I had never heard of called Supinfocom. Since then, we’ve featured no less...
View ArticlePurplebricks “You’ll Be Totally Sold” by Joseph Mann
Mainstream TV ads don’t get more low-key than this study in stop-motion subtlety and dry humor created by director Joseph Mann and the Blinkink animation crew for UK real-estate disruptor Purplebricks...
View ArticleBryce’s Buckets for Bankwest by Buck
Buck’s Australian crew continue their snappy character work for Bankwest with a new :30. Client: Bankwest Agency: Union ECD: Rob Martin-Murphy CD: Dean Hunt Producer: Lauren Billingham Production:...
View ArticlePop Never Dies “Creation” Music Video by Que
The Japanese animator known as Que unleashes his talent for the surreal and ephemeral to conjure a fluid, dream-like music video for “Creation” by J-Pop artist Pop Never Dies. Watch a sample of Que’s...
View ArticleDavid Holm Gets Inside the Head of Rory McIlroy
Supply & Demand’s David Holm takes on the animation, design, and editing in addition to his directing duties on this electric :60 starring golf phenom Rory McIlroy for health care company Optum...
View ArticleNetmarble “The Seven Deadly Sins” Trailer
Alfred Imageworks in Seoul, South Korea, unleashes a rampaging CG game trailer directed and edited by Yoon Hyunho for the Netmarble game based on Nakaba Suzuki’s fantasy manga series The Seven Deadly...
View Article“Catastrophe” Animated Short by Jamille van Wijngaarden
Amsterdam director Jamille van Wijngaarden makes the move from live-action to animation with “Catastrophe,” her perfectly paced and carefully blocked twist on Sylvester and Tweetie – a two-minute ode...
View ArticleMill+ Jumps the Shark for Mountain Dew
Following a stunt-heavy shoot in Argentina, The Mill VFX team created fully-CG environments, sky and water effects, plus the shark for Mountain Dew’s latest spot in the Green Means Go campaign thru...
View ArticleTouring Michele Durazzi’s Utopian Architecture
Michele Durazzi’s d-Arkroom project started during his days in the architecture department of the University of Florence and has evolved into a portfolio of surreal CG experiments in illustration and...
View ArticleExploring Clemens Wirth’s Handmade “Mini Landscapes 2”
Director Clemens Wirth in Innsbruck, Austria: “In this shortfilm, I’ve tried to recreate some of nature’s great events our beautiful planet has to offer, but on a much smaller scale. “Every scene was...
View ArticleSweat & Tears Animation Festival Trailer by Gogo Tanda
Check this wonderfully eccentric trailer created by members of the Gogo Tanda animation collective for the second annual Sweat & Tears Animation Festival invading Frankfurt, Germany on October...
View ArticleMayans MC Season 2 Promo by FX Design
In 2018, FX Networks intro’d their Mayans MC drama series with a testosterone-fueled CG promo we featured in Stash 130. For season 2, the crew at FX Design extends the signature chrome aesthetic and...
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