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March 31, 2025
Our prediction for Super Bowl LV: tears will flow… thanks to this Toyota work from Radical Media’s Tarsem Singh and the Framestore VFX crew recounting the incredible journey of Jessica Long from orphan amputee to Paralympian swimming champion. [Watch]
Determined to fight virus fatigue with absurdist comedy, New York director/animator Dante Zaballa and Welsh artist Osian Efnisien (who also collaborated on Zabella’s Doodle Project II), release a “groundbreaking documentary that nobody asked for.” [Watch]
ECD Eric Lohman and the crew of animators and illustrators at The Furrow in Lexington, KY, partner with digital agency Grow to help Think With Google make an elegant and engaging case for “building fairness into your machine learning model.” [Watch]
The MPC crew in New York provides the VFX and post glue holding together 100 rollicking seconds of art and action in this spot from Anonymous Content director Marco Prestini for Dell’s new global “Youniverse” campaign thru VMLY&R. [Watch]
Seoul motion graphics studio swim, who popped onto the Stash radar in the summer of 2020 with this sweet music video, change up the technique and crank the cuteness factor to 11 in this new promo for South Korean musician Jerry.K. [Watch]
London design and motion force Art&Graft (who recently graced the cover of Stash 144 with their Boing Channel rebrand) just released an ambitious and energized retrospective of their first decade in the business. [Watch]
Spanish creative director and title designer Fernando Domínguez Cózar re-teams with film director Kike Maíllo to set the tone for his latest feature A Perfect Enemy, a thriller based on the novel Cosmetique de l´enemi by Amélie Nothomb. [Watch]
Take a look at how director Joe Bluhm, the Tonic DNA crew in Montreal, and Leo Burnett Toronto created this CG heartwarmer for Campbell’s that delivers a hopeful message through the worldview of a firefly. [Watch]
A major hit on the festival circuit, this surprisingly emotional tale of a satellite technician and his battle with loneliness was created at Team Tumult in Zurich with Frederic Siegel and Benjamin Morard directing. [Watch]
Fresh work from the ever-playful NY director/animator/illustrator Joel Plosz is always welcome news and this retro monochrome music video for “The Number Thirteen” by Nashville-based Louis Prince just proves the point. [Watch]
South Korean director/animator Seoro Oh, whose short films have raised both sneezing and sleepiness to hilarious art forms, applies his relaxed and fluid style to the problems with popular personality tests in this explainer for TED-Ed. [Watch]
It’s been a busy week for director Ariel Costa (aka BlinkMyBrain), first dropping a wild brand film for BMW and now this intriguing cutdown of an explainer for Hewlett Packard Enterprise produced with NOMINT thru Publicis NY. [Watch]
Ben Collier-Marsh’s latest music video for London singer/songwriter Sami Fitz is a bonkers experiment in non-linear collage – produced with creative input from his kids, the film involved no planning, design, or storyboarding. [Watch]
The centerpiece of a large broadcast package for ESPN, this film by director Vitaly Grossmann and the Tendril team ramps up high-style CG to create a “graphical language that metaphorically captures the essence of the College Football Playoffs.” [Watch]
