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Shotopop Lights Up Deadpool Domination for Marvel Snap

London animation studio Shotopop may have outdone themselves with this promo for the Marvel Snap digital collectible card game as YouTube commenters are now begging Marvel for a Deadpool animated series based on this style. [Watch]

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Behind the Music Video Madness of Sad Night Dynamite’s “Wake Up Pass Out”

Balázs Simon’s new video for British duo Sad Night Dynamite (co-directed with Cátia Abreu) is a darkly comic conflagulation of prosthetics and nightmarish digital VFX but the good news is he just dropped Stash fans a peek into the process. [Watch]

May The Gods of Plant-Based Cheese Smile Upon You

Blinkink director Zach Tavel builds a mythological world from miniatures and models to house the godly comedic talents of Kate Berlant in this aggressively oddball launch film for California plant-based cheese brand Plonts. [Watch]

Platige Image Sculpts Drama for Esports World Cup

The CG sub-genre of dramatic sculptural character diorama’s sees an ambitious new chapter with this launch trailer from director Jakub Jabłoński and the crew at Platige Image for the Esports World Cup (EWC) in Riyadh. [Watch]

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CBC Sports Captures the Joie de Vivre of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games

Working with CD Theresa Warburton and the creative team at CBC Sports in Toronto, animator/illustrator Amir Mrzae amplifies the multi-dimensional joie de vivre on display at the Paris Olympics in two wonderfully upbeat films. [Watch]

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The Tendril Team Cozy Up to the Figure F.02 Robot

Directors Joey Recoskie and DissEmbargo (Sebastian Helene and The Dink) lead the Tendril design and motion team on this intimate peek at the F.02 robot, Figure’s second-generation model of “embodied artificial intelligence.” [Watch]

Revenant Reveals Cute Cutscenes for Phoenix Lab’s Unreleased Everhaven Game | STASH MAGAZINE

Revenant Reveals Cute Cutscenes for Phoenix Labs’ Unreleased Everhaven Game

The growing (and welcome) trend of studios to passionately carry on with projects after they have been cancelled by the client continues with the release of this cutscene compilation produced by Glasgow CG mavens Revenant. [Watch]

The Mill Paris Winds Up the Olympics With a Sweet Short Film

In a welcome contrast to the reverent tone of much Olympic content, directors Jean-Yves Parent and Michael Moercant (aka 4pm) at The Mill in Paris celebrate the event with a lighthearted in-house short film cast with antique tin toy characters. [Watch]

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New Back Market Branding Brings Circularity to Life

Back Market’s in-house agency partners with Vienna’s Studio Herrström and Toronto motion house Vucko to rethink the brand’s visual identity. [Watch]

God Bless Bitcoin Documentary animated segments by Ambient Press | STASH MAGAZINE

Ambient Press Adds Plenty of Character to “God Bless Bitcoin” Documentary

After 18 months of production, director/CD Jake Wegesin, who launched animation studio Ambient Press in 2022, just completed 16+ minutes of snappy 3D content for New Roots Films’ feature documentary God Bless Bitcoin. [Watch]

David Lawson and The Mill Let Loose With VALORANT “Incursions” Console Trailer

Mill+ director David Lawson gives Stash fans exclusive insights into the creative and technical challenges of his latest 3D game trailer and considers how the genre has evolved over the last five years. [Watch]

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Fallen Ukrainian Athletes Honored at Paris 2024 Olympics in “The Revived” Short Film

Tektite, a German studio specializing in AI production for brands and advertising, teams with agency TEAMBBDO to create “The Revived”, a tribute to Ukrainian athletes killed defending their country in the war with Russia. [Watch]

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Sam Gainsborough Shops Co-op and Keeps “The Receipt”

Blinkink director Sam Gainsborough reteams with animator Andy Biddle on this innovative spot for British retailer Co-op thru agency VCCP, printing 900 2D frames onto individual shop receipts and then animating them in stop-motion. [Watch]

Studio Birthplace Canopy's Pack4Good Spot | STASH MAGAZINE

Studio Birthplace Sees the Forest and the Trees in Canopy’s Pack4Good Spot

Continuing their quest to raise awareness of global issues, Studio Birthplace leverage their narrative and VFX talents to help environmental non-profit Canopy sound the alarm that 3.1 billion trees are cut each year for paper packaging. [Watch]