TOCA ME Opening Titles 2020 | STASH MAGAZINE

TOCA ME Opening Titles by Uber Eck

The 2020 edition of the TOCA ME Design Conference opened in Munich this month with these striking and thoughtful titles crafted by hometown design and animation studio Uber Eck. [Watch]

Powerwash (I Love You) sort film by Rory WT | STASH MAGAZINE

“Powerwash (I Love You)” Short Film by Rory WT

The disarmingly stripped-down style and off-kilter text-to-speech performances in director/animator Rory Waudby-Tolley’s animated short “Powerwash (I Love You)” keep you unprepared for the film’s deeper truths and hopeful ending. [Watch]

Jo Goes Hunting Careful music video by Alice Saey | STASH MAGAZINE

Jo Goes Hunting “Careful” Music Video by Alice Saey

The dense, detailed, and somewhat delirious style of director/animator/designer Alice Saey (first seen in her promo for Shaking Godspeed’s “She’s Young”) provides a mesmerizing backdrop in this latest work for Jo Goes Hunting. [Watch]

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Direct Line Beats RoboCop, Donatello, and Bumble Bee

Witness the seamless convergence of comedy and VFX in this new three-spot campaign starring disappointed superheroes for UK insurance provider Direct Line via Hungry Man director Brian Buckley and The Mill VFX crew. [Watch]

FuturePlay Expressive Computer Vision #2 by FutureDeluxe | STASH MAGAZINE

FuturePlay by FutureDeluxe

Founder/ECD Andrew Jones at FutureDeluxe in London describes FuturePlay, the studio’s new in-house exploratory project, as a “study of procedural systems designed to artistically reinterpret external spatial and visual inputs.” [Watch]

MILLION animation curated by Rémi Vincent | STASH MAGAZINE

“Million” Motion for MAPP Montréal

Montréal creative Rémi Vincent gathered 17 animators and designers from across the city to collaborate on this dynamic and ultra-wide motion piece originally projected on a wall during the 2019 MAPP Montréal event. [Watch]

Amazon Hunters titles by Elastic | STASH MAGAZINE

Pawns, Colonels, and Nazi “Hunters”

Elastic creative director Jeff Han tells Stash how chess became the metaphor for the strategic battle between post-war Nazis and Al Pacino’s team of “Hunters” in the titles of Amazon’s new original series. [Watch]

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Eli Sverdlov and The-Artery Explore Huawei’s AppGallery

Variations on the rounded red square of Huawei’s AppGallery logo act as the narrative thread binding together the disparate vignettes of this vigorous spot for the company’s official app distribution platform with design and VFX by The-Artery NY. [Watch]

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Grace “Sunset Collection” and Making-of by NotReal

The team at NotReal in Buenos Aires fuse their typographic, motion, and live-action production skills into a wonderfully kinetic, compact, and lighthearted brand film complete with making-of video. [Watch]

Plus Device Our Pleasures music video | STASH MAGAZINE

Plus Device “Our Pleasures” Music Video by Richard Lord

Seattle director/CG artist Richard Lord, who crafted one of our favorite CG music videos of all time for Alessandro Parisi in 2019, creates a kooky/cool new breed of automated alien life in this promo for Plus Device called “Our Pleasures” [Watch]

Baldur’s Gate 3 opening cinematic | STASH MAGAZINE

Baldur’s Gate 3 Opening Cinematic by Unit Image

Larian Studios’ launch of the latest take on the Dungeons & Dragons RPG franchise Baldur’s Gate includes this formidable opening sequence animated by Unit Image with obvious passion, and given the scale of action and set pieces, unlimited ambition. [Watch]

Drasik Bend Reality short film | STASH MAGAZINE

Drasik Studio “Bend Reality” in New Short Film

After six years in the biz, Barcelona animation/illustration prodco Drasik Studio just dropped their first personal project, a visceral and manic frame-by-frame 2D experiment called “Bend Reality”. [Watch]

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Anime-Flavored Wagamama Spot “Bowl to Soul”

Wagamama, the UK-based restaurant chain serving pan-Asian food based on Japanese cuisine, takes their first leap into animated ads with this enchanting and carefully crafted spot directed by Mads Broni at Passion Animation thru MullenLowe. [Watch]

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“It’s Everyone’s Journey” by Smith & Foulkes

Turns out one in four disabled people in the UK say negative attitudes from other passengers prevent them from using public transport so agency VMLY&R brought in Nexus directors Smith & Foulkes to help change a few minds. [Watch]