Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
Designer/art director Dan Hoopert, who jumped onto the Stash radar in 2018 with this lovely CG product film, is back with an exquisite personal piece he calls “a short visual exploration into the world of undiscovered rocks and minerals.” [Watch]
While creating this poetic graduation film at university in Japan, Tasuku Nakagawa could not have known how perfectly his surreal and ambitious full-CG work would reflect the current COVID-19 crisis when released this month. [Watch]
After untold days of going slightly mad in confinement at home, this soft and abstract “cosmic meditation on the battle between positive and negative forces” by animation director and illustrator Jon Dunleavy seems like the right thing to watch. [Watch]
Wonderfully low key and earnest explainer video for the Alaskan native-owned Akima corporation produced and directed by the motion crew at Illo in Turin, Italy through Virginia agency Yes&. [Watch]
A breezy mix of 2D and stop motion helps Not To Scale directing duo Klimpa (Robert Löbel and Max Mörtl) elevate this explainer for Working From_, a shared workspace initiative based in Hoxton brand hotels. [Watch]
A quick shot of over-the-top, greenscreen adrenaline-camp from director Jocelyn Anquetil at The Mill backed up by the VFX and post team for the new “Tantrum” single by American singer and rapper Ashnikko (aka Ashton Casey). [Watch]
Five years after its premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, David Coquard-Dassault’s somber and evocative post-apocalyptic vision “Peripheria” lands online in the middle of a real-world pre-apocalypse. [Watch]
The latest volley in the bed-in-a-box wars (started with the runaway success of Casper in 2014) arrives courtesy of Purple and the crew at ManvsMachine ramping up their trademark game of turning products into CG art. [Watch]
And now, with a brief distraction from the insanity of the outside world, we present AJ Jefferies, a 3D illustrator/animator and partner at CG studio MDI Digital in Norwich, UK, with “a short film I made about a horse, struggling to exist.” [Watch]
Join Antibody CD Patrick Clair as he walks Stash fans through his thoughtful title update for season 3 of HBO’s sci-fi mind-bender Westworld including imagery generated using AI and machine learning. [Watch]
Stay home, stay inspired! Take a peek at this two-minute preview of STASH 140 which adds another 31 motion projects (plus behind the scenes features and exclusive interviews) to over 5,500 titles included in The Stash Permanent Collection. [Watch]
It’s hard to go wrong poking fun at fashion films that take themselves too seriously, and adding British actress/model Suki Waterhouse (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) to the mix cements the deal as mandatory comic relief for perilous times. [Watch]
The CNN Motion crew illuminates the surprising and socially complex 5,000-year history of red-colored lips in this beautifully illustrated explainer with art direction by Ignacio Osorio and Alexander Sears. [Watch]
Inspired by video artist Nam Jun Paik’s timeless installation “TV Buddha”, the Solid VFX crew in Seoul, South Korea create an atmospheric CG future populated with a solitary and enigmatic figure. [Watch]
