New on the Stash radar: Shawn Wang, a CG generalist and motion designer living in Shanghai who completed “Planet Unknown,” his audacious debut 3D short (complete with a sweeping cinematic score from Echoic Audio) during his final year at Communication University of China. [Watch]
Stellar character design and animation in this commercial project assignment produced in 17 weeks by a team of second year animation students at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark for the Danish NGO Verdens Skove (“Forests of the World”). [Watch]
The sweetest animation you’ll see today is this PSA/short called “Sometimes I Stutter,” created by Belgian freelance designer and animator Gilles Desmadrille during his Graphic Design studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. [Watch]
Ready for visual overload? Then you’re gonna love Stash 118 as it jams yet another 31 video projects into the Stash Permanent Collection – the planet’s largest online archive of design, animation and VFX, plus behind-the-scenes features and exclusive interviews. [Watch]
Meet Rene Fustercluck, one of two men left standing after the man-made apocalypse and the comic lynchpin of Sam Southward’s spectacular (and not altogether SFW) graduation film “After the End” produced at the National Film and Television School in London. [Watch]
Forty-four third year Bachelor of Art and Design students at the Media Design School in Auckland, New Zealand turn the jet-black humor of Edward Gorey’s “Accidents, Blunders and Calamitiesis” loose on 30 unlucky CG creatures in this mini-masterwork of seamless VFX and beat-perfect comic timing. [Watch]
