“MACRO/micro” Animated Collaboration by Margaret Bialis and Friends

Feeling overworked and realizing she hadn’t animated anything just for fun in a long time, Chicago animation director Margaret Bialis gathered 11 talented friends for a joint look at the big and small in their lives. [Watch]

Max Leung Short Film Reborn | STASH MAGAZINE

Max Leung Finds Hope in New Short Film “Reborn”

Max Leung, a key artist at MPC in London, just released this personal film in an attempt to capture the roller coaster of emotions he experienced when his son was born prematurely in the midst of the pandemic. [Watch]

CardsnChains Short Film by Christoph Ott | STASH MAGAZINE

“Cards’n’Chains” Short Film by Christoph Ott

Christoph Ott, a motion designer and digital artist at 908 in Berlin, deconstructs the time-honored tradition of adding cards to bicycle spokes as well as the bike itself in this new personal adventure in CG filmmaking. [Watch]

See Through Short Film by Clim Studio | STASH MAGAZINE

“See Through” R&D Short Film by Clim Studio

From Clim, founder/CD at Clim Studio in Barcelona: “As a creative animation firm, we are naturally driven by the need to offer solutions to communication problems. Sometimes we must step away from client work and let ourselves play and gather.” [Watch]

Arnis Vitols Gets Beneath the Surface in “FINIERIS” Short Film

Arnis Vitols, a 3D technical artist based in Riga, Latvia, asks the question “Does perfection in form exist?” with a new personal film called FINIERIS (“Veneer” in Latvian) with a soundscape designed by Human Robot Soul. [Watch]

Cheng-Hsu Chung Celebrates Binge Eating in Mukbang Short Film | STASH MAGAZINE

Cheng-Hsu Chung Celebrates Korean Binge Eating in “Mukbang!” Short Film

Director/animator Cheng-Hsu Chung, whose talents for chaotic maximalism are on full display in music videos for Chelou and !!! (Chk Chk Chk), just dropped this frenzied feast for Adult Swim’s Off The Air anthology series. [Watch]