Voice in the Hollow Unreal Engine Half MT Studios | STASH MAGAZINE

“Voice in the Hollow” Unreal Engine Short Film by Miguel Ortega and Tran Ma

Half M.T Studios, aka Miguel Ortega and Tran Ma, power up Unreal Engine 5 to craft a powerful Caine and Abel-style African fable with visual influences from the Italian cinema of Sergio Leone and Dario Argento. [Watch]

Bea Holler Klimax Short Film | STASH MAGAZINE

Director Bea Höller Explores Female Sexuality in “Klimax” Short Film

Produced as part of her animation studies at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany, director Bea Höller says her short film Klimax is “meant to show how unique and beautiful every woman’s body is.” [Watch]

WAI-000 Short Film Coloso Woosung Kang Gryun Kim Taehun Park | STASH MAGAZINE

A Future AI Searches for Identity in “WAI-000” Short Film

CG artists Woosung Kang, Gryun Kim, and Taehoon Park just dropped this riveting and passionately detailed promo for their advanced Cinema 4D master class available thru Korean online education platform Coloso. [Watch]

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Jordan Clarke Meets an AI who Wants to be Famous

Toronto director/animator Jordan Clarke closes out his “f*ckai?” series of short films with a five-minute opus that ramps up his process of hand-animating 3D to a story generated by OpenAI in response to his prompt. [Watch]

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Reunion Animates “The Transatlantic Slave Trade” for The Equal Justice Initiative

Creative director Chris Carboni and his crew at Reunion in Brooklyn partner with US non-profit The Equal Justice Initiative to animate six films about the history of slavery and racial injustice in America. [Watch]

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Kaho Yoshida Toys With Your “Tongue” in New Short Film

Director/animator/illustrator Kaho Yoshida mixes 2D animation and stop-motion into a very personal film addressing some of the issues she has faced as an Asian woman living in the West. [Watch]