Aardman Treks “Over the Garden Wall” with Patrick McHale

Show creator Patrick McHale teams with directors Mikey Please, Dan Ojari, and the Aardman stop-motion team to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his much beloved (and Emmy-winning) Cartoon Network miniseries Over the Garden Wall. [Watch]

Private Island Mixes Media and Messages in New Short Film “Meme, Myself and AI”

Somehow both manic and thoughtful, the latest short from director Chris Boyle and Private Island playfully fuses live-action, VFX, and generative images into a peek at the fun to be had when AI questions its relationship to humans. [Watch]

Manifold CG Short Film by Panoply | STASH MAGAZINE

Data & Dimensions: Panoply Drops “Manifold” Short Film

London design and motion studio Panoply (whose best work we track here) just dropped us the latest in their ongoing series of CG experiments, an exploration of data and dimensional intersections called Manifold. [Watch]

Ignis Short Film by Optical Arts | STASH MAGAZINE

Optical Arts Captures the Beauty of Combustion

Captured entirely in camera with no VFX or post production, Optical Arts’ newest in-house visual experiment Ignis considers the beauty of combustion and “the complex relationship humanity has with fire”. [Watch]

Hiroshi Takagishi Odd short film Museum 1 | STASH MAGAZINE

Hiroshi Takagishi Explores Organic Oddities in New Motion Art Installation

Tokyo-based director/designer Hiroshi Takagishi, whose striking Poem short film we published here, expands on his fascination with organic lifeforms in his new CG motion piece created for display at Museum 1 in Busan, South Korea. [Watch]

Franz Impler Keeps it Surreal in “Nothing to Expect”

3D artist and filmmaker Franz Impler, whose bonkers grad film Out Of Bounds we featured in Stash 149, is back with a new short film – complete with his surreal story-telling and signature unpolished CG style. [Watch]