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November 24, 2025
The latest holiday spot from Passion Animation directors Kyra Buschor and Constantin Paeplow for Swiss retail giant Migros (produced thru Agency Wirz Werbung AG), weaves live action and CG into a warm and fuzzy tale of food and family. [Watch]
Danish director Casper Balslev and animation director Jack Brown at Partizan Studios highlight the downer consequences of cannabis-impaired driving in two films for the Danish Road Safety Council thru Copenhagen agency Worth Your While. [Watch]
CD/director Robertino Zambrano at Sydney animation house KAPWA teams with co-director Christoph Sarow at AIM Creative Studio in Portugal to develop a playful illustration system for Australian price comparison platform Compare Club. [Watch]
Johan Kropp, a self-taught post artist based in Berlin makes his Stash debut with the short film Dead Head, a personal and visceral homage to vehicular muscle and a showcase for his 3D, design, editing, and compositing skills. [Watch]
London post/VFX house Black Kite and LA stop motion studio Open the Portal build out a hybrid world for US healthcare consortium Kaiser Permanente in this jaunty spot by Riff Raff directing duo The Sacred Egg thru Droga5. [Watch]
The latest short film to emerge from Motion Plus Design’s Made With program in partnership with Maxon and Adobe, Memories finds director/CG artist Mehdi Hadi building an atmospheric post apocalypse and its mechanical lifeforms. [Watch]
Take a peek into the making of the 2025 Spanish holiday spot for Swiss chocolate brand Suchard – full of warm, handcrafted family vibes courtesy of prodco BOL, with Device directing and Pangur Animation handling the stop-motion. [Watch]
To launch the 2026 edition of the venerable D&AD Awards, the brand and the agency team at Uncommon Creative issue a “deliberate provocation for the industry to prove whether creativity is dead or very much alive.” [Watch]
Madrid studio Kutuko, whose ambitious Hamilton spot we featured in Stash 169, lightens up the CG product film genre by transforming this project for the Xiaomi 5 Pro robot vacuum into a romantic tragicomedy. [Watch]
Director/animator Sélim Lallaoui, who co-directed the breathtaking student short film La Diplomatie de l’éclipse, joins forces with the production talents at Paris animation studio Wizz for his new visual epic, Above the Sea. [Watch]
Welcome to the A-list Dunkin’ Christmas where the BUCK animation crew hangs with the team from Artists Equity (founded by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon) while actress/comedian/renaissance woman Mindy Kaling provides the VO. [Watch]
Athens-based 3D artist/motion designer Dimitrios Sakkas (who won an Emmy in 2022 for his work on the Netflix doc A Trip to Infinity), cultivates drama and science via Mother Nature in this film for Greek health brand Eallos. [Watch]
In its 22nd edition, Pictoplasma, the world’s leading conference on contemporary character-driven creativity sets its focus on story: How can characters act as narrative devices that shape emotion, identity, and meaning – beyond affect, empathy, or cuteness? [Watch]
Tesson Studio in Paris adds a new twist to the CG watch wars with this spec work inspired by the Omega Speedmaster (aka the first wristwatch on the Moon), an experiment that “connects scientific curiosity with the poetic nature of motion.” [Watch]
Heartwarming CG spots from Montreal animation studio Tonic DNA have become a Christmas staple (see here and here), with this year’s effort focused on food insecurity during the holidays in a campaign for US insurance brand Highmark. [Watch]
