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September 10, 2025
Staying inspired has never been more important and Stash 173, like all issues of The Stash Permanent Collection, has been carefully curated to help you do just that. Watch the two-minute trailer of this two-hour issue here. [Watch]
Herman Miller’s timeless Aeron chair escapes its designation as a cool but staid classic in this exuberant and beautifully lit spec spot from Seoul-based CG and motion designer Changhoon Nam. [Watch]
California-based motion and CG artist James Bali makes his Stash debut with this tribute to Audi’s erstwhile flagship V10, 562 horsepower, R8 supercar – a full-throttle CG recreation of a much-loved 2013 live-action spot. [Watch]
The latest work from Wizz directing collective CRCR for Riot’s Valorant franchise is a fabulous blend of finely drafted frames and graphic design in this anthem/music video for the Champions 2025 tournament launching Sept 12th. [Watch]
Motion and VFX artist Michael Skoz walks Stash fans thru how director Calvin Kretzing, strategy lead Andrea Rosati, and the creative team at UK automotive brand Lotus created the marque’s new manifesto film inspired by their Theory 1 concept car. [Watch]
Madrid’s TAVO Studio, whose work we track here, teams with hometown agency Mi Querido Watson on a new film for Macaronesian Gin inspired by the flora, fauna, and volcanic landscapes of the spirit’s Canary Island home. [Watch]
CD Will MacNeil, who’s been working with weareseventeen following the closure of The Mill, opened the first OFFF Montreal conference yesterday with this thoughtful sequence he describes as a “manifesto on creativity in our turbulent world”. [Watch]
Working thru Dubai agency Code 8, CD Javier Vallejo and the CG motion team at JVG in Madrid sculpt an abstract and sophisticated vision of chocolate as art in this director’s cut of their spot for Mars’ Galaxy brand. [Watch]
The motion design and animation industry is changing fast — new tools, new demands, new opportunities. We want to understand how these shifts are affecting the artists, studios, and production teams who make the work happen. [Watch]
Designer/artist Lucas Zanotto and animator/filmmaker Will Anderson co-direct this latest OK Go music video/art piece, a Blender Studio open project using facial capture to drive Zanotto’s character designs in real-time. [Watch]
Director Pawel Jermak and Warsaw animation/post studio Felga crank the glitch dial to 11 on this trailer and teaser combo for the Hyundai INSTEROID, “a concept car built inside a video game, then dropped into the real world”. [Watch]
CDs Alex Mikhaylov, Max Chelyadnikov, and the CG team at LOOP (whose Bella+Canvas film we featured in Stash 172), elevate a series of vacuum product demos into a visual and technical tour de force in this work for home appliance brand SharkNinja. [Watch]
Working to a witty track by Tin Sounds (aka the songwriters for the Hey Duggee series), London-based animation director Joseph Clark and his Oh Studio crew transform a household chore into something joyful for IKEA UK. [Watch]
The Forward Festival 2025 opened last week in Berlin with this wonderfully austere exercise in tension and release from the crew at Found in London that “celebrates the blank page, a space both daunting and full of potential.” [Watch]
Directors Jan Xavier and Victor Tchaba at São Paulo animation studio Histeria! lead a crew of 60 artists and animators on a rampage to promo the Valorant Champions Tour Americas Playoffs with this “Pixel Perfect” music video. [Watch]
