The Rec Room The Claw Game Joachim Back The Vanity | STASH MAGAZINE

Director Joachim Back and The Vanity Play the “Claw Game”

Toronto VFX and post house The Vanity (whose best work we track here), supplies the visual fun in this spot directed by Oscar-winner Joachim Back thru Partners Film and agency Broken Heart Love Affair for The Rec Room. [Watch]

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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]

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Waldemar Borth Finds “Random” Humor in the Brand Film

Channeling his many years creating corporate brand films, motion designer/AD Waldemar Borth takes a satirical poke at the tropes of the genre by fusing his design and post experience with an array of AI tools. [Watch]

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Los Pérez and Electric Theatre Collective Serve Up All-Star Tennis VFX for “Six Kings Slam”

The biggest names in men’s tennis star in this sweeping action-scifi-fantasy-Viking-adventure-tennis film helmed by directing duo Los Pérez with absolutely epic VFX handled by the team at Electric Theatre Collective. [Watch]

Tying Up the “Time Bandits” Titles With Plains Of Yonder

Take a BTS peek at how Plains of Yonder directors Katrina Crawford and Mark Bashore (Emmy-nominated here and here) and designer/animator Cian McKenna strung together the titles for the Apple TV+ series Time Bandits. [Watch]

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Bruno Aveillan and The Mill Paris Stage a Revolution for Renault in “The Painting”

The VFX team at The Mill Paris and Quad director Bruno Aveillan wrangle point clouds and particle animation into a dreamy trip through revolutionary moments in French history and art for Renault thru agency Publicis Conseil. [Watch]