Blinkink director/animator Raman Djafari gathers 14 very diverse animators (whose styles include stop-motion, 2D, 3D, oil pastels, watercolor, and felt) to join him in this visual feast for the Coldplay single “feelslikeimfallinginlove”. [Watch]
Category Animation, Character Animation, Featured, Music Video, Stop Motion · Tags Aaron Fisher, BlinkInk, Coldplay, Dante Zaballa, Hannah van der Weide, Isabel Garrett, Jack Zhang, Karlotta Freier, KINEMUS, Kohana Wilson, Martin Robic, Moera.cf Gaia Esther Maria, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Ram Han, Raman Djafari, Tokay, Ultraherz
London-based director/music producer Emma Catnip just dropped her latest motion experiment, a short film/music video called Bloom she describes as part of her “ongoing exploration of how AI can complement human creativity in animation.” [Watch]
The planet’s only streaming platform dedicated to motion design, animation, and VFX – aka the Stash Permanent Collection – keeps growing with the addition of issue 166, packing in another two full hours of inspiration and insight. [Watch]
Category 3D Style, Advertising, AI, Animation, Brand film, BTS, BTS, CG, Character Animation, Explainer, Featured, Illustration, Motion Design, Music Video, R&D, Short Films, Spec work, Titles, Typography, VFX · Tags Antoine Bardou Jacquet, Balázs Simon, Bark&Bite, BlinkInk, Boris Wilmot, Brikk, Bureau Klaus Alman, Chez Eddy, Clément Soulmagnon, Clim Studio, Electric Theatre Collective, Eoin Duffy, Fabrice Le Nezet, Form Films, Framestore, Illogic, Korb, Kyungrae Yu, Le Cube, le truc, Louve Karnas, ManvsMachine, Mike Drayton, Optical Arts, Psyop, Pulla Studio, Raman Djafari, Romain Chassaing, Romain Loubersanes, Runway Studio, Sailor Productions, Setreset, Studio Belly, Studio Ianus, Studio Mals, Sunny Vfx, The Line, The Mill, Titmouse, TONIC DNA, Trizz, Vallée Duhamel, William Bartlett, Woodblock
WIZZ director Victor Haegelin, whose many stop-motion marvels include the short film Captain 3D (on the cover of Stash 131), continues to innovate with this frantic and intensely detailed music video for American band The Avett Brothers. [Watch]
Eddy director Clément Soulmagnon, whose wonderful Aurore short film we included in the Best of Stash 2021, transports us to past summers on the Côte d’Azur in this dreamy music video for French band Juniore. [Watch]
Three directors from Collectif 99° (who joined the Eddy animation roster in 2023) conjure a painterly and dream-like fable about conquering guilt and depression for the London art punk band HMLTD. [Watch]