Here’s a reasonably-NSFW way to end the week: Lil Nas X escorts us into the world of Montero, a raunchy alternate reality named for himself (he was born Montero Lamar Hill), and obviously designed to stir up a fuss. [Watch]
Join co-creators Braulio Amado, Jimmy Turrel, and Antonio Vicentini as they walk us through the inspiration and creative process behind their elaborately-layered video for the Elvis classic “Can’t Help Falling In Love With You”. [Watch]
Berlin director/animator Cornelius Joksch says his new tragicomedy Oh, Darling, a quirky passion project about an obsessive but clumsy bird lover, “is about accidentally destroying something you like.” [Watch]
2grey studio in Seoul, South Korea just swerved onto the Stash radar with a series of tastefully upbeat films highlighting various features of the IONIQ5, Hyundai’s new all-electric compact crossover electric vehicle. [Watch]
As digital assets continue to gain credence as investments, buying and selling virtual real estate on a 1:1 scale version of the planet was inevitable. In this film, NYC’s Unsaid Studio helps the inhabitants of Earth understand Earth 2. [Watch]
UK credit broker TotallyMoney looks to break out of a crowded market with silly wordplay backed by a disarming trio of dancing amphibians (hand-animated by the CG crew at Milford) who seem to still be working out the routine. [Watch]
Razor-sharp action and camera work by Beijing’s B-O-D Studio elevates these three animated promo videos highlighting characters from the third edition of Pandada Studio’s free mobile game Ninja Must Die. [Watch]
Nexus director/animator Patrick Osborne (who won the 2014 Best Animated Short Oscar for Feast), guides American middle school drama students thru a remote collaborative animation project to help replace their COVID-canceled live performance. [Watch]
Four Paris-based friends (Florent Bizec, Frederic Colin, Fabien Gibert, and Sam’s Design) coil their collective talents into a moody and menacing title sequence-style passion project based on everyone’s fave mythological femme fatale. [Watch]
Ala Nunu Leszynska, who has appeared in Stash credited as an animator/art director on two films directed by Elyse Kelly (here and here), just released her short film “Ahead”, produced during her first year of the MA Animation program at Royal College of Art in London. [Watch]
Get your spring inspiration on with this two-minute trailer of the 31 new design, animation, and VFX projects packed into Stash 146, the latest brilliant addition to the Stash Permanent Collection. [Watch]
Influenced by David Fincher films and the personal technology revolution, director Dmitriy Glazyrin and the crew at Mondlicht Studios in Germany craft an expansive multi-dimensional film for the Motion Design Awards. [Watch]
The crew at motion graphics studio Lunapark Film in Istanbul mine the details of Turkish culture for this series of illustration-based channel IDs for TRT 2, a national broadcaster focused on arts and culture programming. [Watch]
Abandoning the trust and vigilance messaging usually required in the cybersecurity category, Kaspersky Lab decides to simply dance its way into your heart with an exuberant green bear named Midori Kuma. [Watch]