The Light and BIEN Form Creative and Strategic Alliance
January 7, 2025
The 10-episode Netflix series “We the People” makes brilliant use of animation and music in its quest to engage teens in the US civic and political processes. For example, Buck and Adam Lambert counting us through the Bill of Rights. [Watch]
Using noise algorithms to drive the motion of his latest short film, Beijing designer Gao Yang creates a mesmerizing and abstract third addition to his “Mountains & Rivers” series. [Watch]
Blinkink director Nicos Livesey, whose range of animation techniques stretches from embroidery to Plasticine, pours his passion as a lifelong Iron Maiden fan into this six-minute epic for the band’s latest single. [Watch]
Visionary Shanghai director and CG artist Axl Le, who landed two exceptional short films in the Stash Permanent Collection in 2020 (The Funeral and Vincent), just dropped a new peek into his singular worldview with “Patient”. [Watch]
Few environments provide insights into the depths of human behavior like the crucible of crowded late-night public transit – a fact Scottish director/animator Ross Hogg takes full advantage of in his latest animated short. [Watch]
All sorts of sticky fun and general weirdness going on in these vignettes produced in-house at FX Networks as in-show packaging for Cake, their half-hour short-form comedy block showcasing live-action and animated comedies. [Watch]
Director Bjørn-Erik Aschim, who opened the Ciclop Festival a few years back with this inspirational sequence, rallies The Line crew in London to conjure a near-future utopian landscape for US food brand Chobani. [Watch]
Director Emnet Mulugeta and a massive crew at Goodbye Kansas in Stockholm make sure the characters get the care and attention they deserve in this carefully lit and tightly choreographed game trailer for Redfall. [Watch]
New visual effects studio LIGHT (based in Bordeaux, with a presence in NY) burst onto the Stash radar this week with these fun and furry Olympic-themed IDs for French free-to-air public television channel France 3. [Watch]
Jungler director Vincent Gibaud takes on the disturbing and recurring problem of pet owners abandoning their animals during the summer months for French animal welfare organization Société Protectrice des Animaux (SPA). [Watch]
Chanel’s iconic N°5 fragrance (first launched by Gabrielle Chanel in 1921) benefits from a whimsical update in this spot directed by French fashion photographer Thomas Lagrange with animation and post by Mikros in Paris. [Watch]
Refik Anadol, the Turkish-American new media artist who previously transfixed us with his Melting Memories work, just released Molecular Architecture, an installation combining AI data sculpture and large-scale 3D printing. [Watch]
Working to the theme “The world ahead”, five teams of students at Gobelins School L’image in Paris craft teasers for the 2021 edition of the venerable Annecy Animation Festival in a wide range of styles and moods. [Watch]
In a welcome break from the snark and one-note violence of many game films, LA director Evan Viera and the crew at Illusorium Studios in Madrid deliver a tranquil and panoramic teaser for the Switch release of Sky: Children of Light. [Watch]
