MAKE Animation Thesis Grant Announces 2026 Winners
June 23, 2026
Munich animation and illustration studio Musclebeaver capture the spirit and energy of elite international volleyball in this carefully drafted, action-forward opening film for the 2026 season of Volleyball Nations League. [Watch]
The Stash panel at OFFF 2026 – BREAKING THROUGH: How to Get Seen & Get Results – generated far more audience questions than we could address on stage. Part 2 of our follow-up answers queries about getting started and dealing with self-doubt. [Watch]
Pixel x Pixel is a motion creative event bringing together leading creators from around the world across motion design, animation, VFX, and real-time graphics on Oct 17 in Toyko, Japan. [Watch]
Discovering new animated work from Vancouver story tellers Giant Ant is always a happy occasion, and this hero compilation of four mini-brand films for AI digital experience platform Optimizely, is no exception. [Watch]
London-based animation director Joseph Clark and his Oh Studio crew help rally resistance to the data-thieves of Big Tech in this awareness campaign for We Are Better Than This. [Watch]
London-based illustrator and animation director Chen Wu just sent his new short film “Leave The Island”, a quietly beautiful tale about “departure, transformation, and the quiet traces that memory leaves behind.” [Watch]
After covering NotReal’s work for over seven years (including in one of Stash’s most viewed posts ever), I had the opportunity to sit down with co-founders Valeria Moreiro and Milton Gonzalez at OFFF Barcelona 2026. [Watch]
Following their recent film for HAY, the CG motion crew at Frame are back with another beautiful interior design product film, this time for Kvadrat Acoustics and Fosters + Partners Industrial Design. [Watch]
Co-founders Benoit Drigny and Valentin Nouvel at motion studio brume, whose gorgeous TED-Ed fable we featured on the cover of Stash 154, opened the 2026 One Health Summit in Lyon with another lyrical, illustration-based sequence. [Watch]
Wrangling the talents and styles of a small army of artists and animators, Spanish directing duo Turbo (aka Pau López & Gerardo del Hierro) conjure a propulsive and fully-surreal voyage through the world of Spanish design. [Watch]
Veteran CG director/motion designer Joan Moreno teams with Amsterdam prodco FutureFrank to craft a surgical piece of gothic sci-fi as an extension of the new multi-artist FutureFrank® streetwear collection. [Watch]
Marshmallow Laser Feast, the London-based art collective and experiential force of nature, just dropped this elegant and insightful concept film for their Patterns of Perception, Hearing project coming to the University of Oxford in 2027. [Watch]
Working thru French prodco Wilders, directors Benjamin Marchal, Nicolas Duval, and Paris post house Digital District channel our cinephile memories into the opening title sequence for the 2026 Young Director Awards. [Watch]
Dissembargo co-founder/directors Sam Humphries and Sebastian Helene just dropped us the process reel for their high-octane and high-stakes design and motion work on the 2026 F1 season title sequence. [Watch]
Riff Raff directing duo in/out (aka Jean-Philippe Blunt & Thom Humphreys) immersed themselves in an active Serbian quarry to capture the raw footage for the new track “Me And You” from venerated producer Bonobo. [Watch]
