Digital Kitchen Gets Inside the Mind of Detective Cross

Digital Kitchen sets a tense and foreboding tone for season two of the Amazon crime thriller series Cross, orchestrating a layered collision between the psyche of detective Alex Cross and his city, Washington, D.C. [Watch]

I’ve Gotta Be Me: Here’s How Oscar Hudson Made NPCs Into Real Characters for Coinbase

The hapless non-playable characters of the gaming world finally have their day as one of them breaks free in this Coinbase spot by MJZ director Oscar Hudson thru agency Isle of Any, and aired during the Academy Awards. [Watch]

Duncan Elms & Makemake Open “The Dinosaurs” on Netflix

Makemake CD Duncan Elms, whose work we track here, leads the studio’s 3D team into a mist-shrouded world of hidden giants with these titles for Steven Spielberg’s nature doc series The Dinosaurs on Netflix. [Watch]

Reframe Studio Softens the Science of Sleep

Reframe Studio in Seoul, whose spec Bang & Olufsen spot we featured in Stash 172 and the Stash Annual, applies their CG talents to the launch of new mattress technology for South Korean brand Sleep Mildo. [Watch]

Kreatives Keep the Motion Manic for Microbe Munch

The team at Kreatives in Munich make their Stash debut with this playful launch film for New York biotech brand Mothership Materials, wrapping the science of microbes in frenetic, multi-technique motion design. [Watch]