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December 16, 2025
A full-on cultural phenomenon in China where it drove over 50 million views in 24 hours, this emotional music video for singer/songwriter and UNICEF ambassador Roy Wang, uses AI to simulate the warmth of stop-motion felt animation. [Watch]
Working with CD Adrien Pasquet at Paris prodco Polvo, director/illustrator Florian Perron crafts a utopian sensory fantasy “Where Heartfelt Dreams Check In” for French hospitality and hotel brand Accor. [Watch]
CD Carlos Cabrera and the team at Kutuko in Madrid, take a minute off from commissioned work to adjust their creative process and produce a startling film they describe as “a visceral collision of instinct, craft, and AI-driven exploration.” [Watch]
Co-directors Pedro Conti and Diego Maia at Flooul Animation in São Paulo, transport viewers back to the tumultuous last years of 20th century Brazil in this dense and dynamic video for rapper/songwriter and cultural icon Emicida. [Watch]
Next up in the Sharks annual calendar of creative events is the Short Film & Branded Content Awards Competition, which which will be judged in Brighton on 28th & 29th January. [Watch]
Paris VFX force Digital District and Iconoclast director Pierre Dupaquier (one half of directing duo We Are From LA), choreograph the collaboration of cinema in this rousing brand film for French broadcaster CANAL+ thru agency BETC. [Watch]
Stash has covered our share of ambitious and intricate zoetrope-inspired films but these opening titles for the Netflix historical drama miniseries Death by Lightning is the first we’ve seen to use the device for an era-appropriate project. [Watch]
Directors Morgan Powell and Neil Kidney at Seed Animation in London give the AI holiday ad pot a stir with a fresh and fun blast of prompted puppetry starring East End Santa and his mate Pat Butcher (from the BBC soap opera EastEnders). [Watch]
ECD William Campbell leads the design and animation team at Scholar through Target’s massive, feel-good holiday campaign including over 30 spots spread across all screens from mobile, to in-store, to Times Square. [Watch]
Carefully crafted in full-CG by Kyle Cooper and the team at Prologue Films, the end credits for Scott Derrickson’s genre-bending feature The Gorge, are a clear demonstration of design’s power to create emotion even after a film is over. [Watch]
Director Martin Engh at Oslo prodco ADP and Stockholm animation house Brikk craft a sobering holiday spot for Infinitum, the Norwegian non-profit responsible for the country’s recycling system for plastic bottles and aluminum cans. [Watch]
Director Benoit Marzouvanlian and Paris prodco Soldats link up with the animation/VFX team at Swanside for a two-minute hallucinogenic escapade entitled It Will Make Sense (but it won’t) for French streetwear brand Mob Links. [Watch]
Motion North returns in 2026 for it’s first two-day celebration on March 26-27 taking over Freight Island in Manchester. Expect talks, workshops, discussions, play, exploration, food, drinks, and more. [Watch]
Brooklyn-based director/CD Chris Carboni just released this wonderfully off-kilter musical trailer for Your Memories Remember You, his new adult animated anthology series merging black comedy with surreal 2D animation. [Watch]
When the studio booked to deliver the 2025 NodeFest opening titles suddenly backed out, conference organizer James Cowen and his motion crew at Yes Captain in Melbourne, had just three weeks to knock out a replacement sequence. [Watch]
