Director Oliver Davies and The Mill crew explore the idea that a soccer shirt is made of far more than fabric in this dynamic CG promo introducing the new Manchester United home jerseys for the 2020/21 season. [Watch]
Bruce the giraffe rocks out to Whitesnake in this over the top and impossible-to-ignore spot for Australian commercial radio network Triple M created by Melbourne animation/CG/VFX studio Cadre Pictures through local agency Thinkerbell. [Watch]
Even if your only experience with Swiss electronic duo Yello derives from John Hughes’ 1986 hit film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, you’re going to appreciate their latest excursion into eccentricity courtesy of director/animator Dirk Koy. [Watch]
Elastic creative director Jeff Han is on a roll. Following breakout title work earlier this year for the Amazon series “Hunters” and CNN’s “John Lewis: Good Trouble” doc, Han opens “The Swamp” on HBO with this eerie CG sequence. [Watch]
In their newest video for New York duo Lewis Del Mar, Smuggler directors rubberband (aka Jason Sondock and Simon Davis) team with animator James Siewert for a tactile and distressed stop-motion media explosion. [Watch]
As in most creative endeavors, not all the brilliant bits of the design process make it to the final cut. And that is why you’ll want to gander at this process reel from FutureDeluxe showcasing the R&D behind their new Optus IDs. [Watch]
The all-London team of Builders Club and post house Okay Studio rework the animation/edit pipeline to pull off this ambitious lockdown mix of CG and hand animation for Adidas Originals ZX thru Hong Kong agency Hypebeast. [Watch]
A wonderfully apocryphal real-life Craigslist Missed Connections ad takes on a loveable new life in this passion project from Toronto director/animator/designer Patrick Dias who mixes 2D and 3D into a modern urban fairy tale. [Watch]
Now based in London, Iranian-born director/animator Reza Dolatabadi hit the Stash radar in 2009 with his remarkable grad film “Khoda” (featured in Stash 52) – his latest work is a visually berserk promo for English indie pop band Bastille. [Watch]
In this expansive and poetic branded content film for Eli Lilly, Hornet director Yves Geleyn draws a parallel between the connectedness of the solar system and the importance of medical sequencing in cancer treatment. [Watch]
The light of a hopeful post-pandemic world casts a prismatic glow in this beautifully drafted spot from Madrid production/post house User T38 emphasizing the efforts of Spanish multinational bank BBVA to help businesses reopen. [Watch]
Director Paulo Garcia and the crew at Zombie Studio in São Paulo engage all their 3D and narrative talents to help Moby pull attention to the increasing problem of Amazon deforestation with this video for a cover of Roxy Music’s ”My Only Love”. [Watch]
The all-Stockholm team of 3D specialists Studio Taktil and PJADAD (Petter Johansson Art Direction and Design) take you deep inside IKEA’s new Huvudroll, a plant-based update to the classic Swedish meatball. [Watch]
The four members of South Korean band DABDA describe their music as “pastel psychedelic” while reviewers categorize them into post-rock and math rock, but no matter the label their exuberant new video by swim studio in Seoul makes for fun viewing. [Watch]