Mate? animated short film by Buda | STASH MAGAZINE

Buda and Friends Share a Mate

Buenos Aires motion house Buda round up two dozen friends from across South America for a joyous tribute to the local tradition of drinking and sharing a bitter tea made from the yerba mate plant. [Watch]

Giangrande Free to Roam music Video by gianluca maruotti | STASH MAGAZINE

Giangrande “Free to Roam” Stop Motion Music Video

Italian director, animator, and puppet maker Gianluca Maruotti brings his talent for peculiar and lovable characters to this meticulous stop-motion video for the track “Free to Roam” from Massimo Giangrande’s new album Beauty at Closing Time. [Watch]

Sit Down and Walk animated short film by Fabio Valesini | STASH MAGAZINE

“Sit Down and Walk” Animated Short by Fabio Valesini

Every day during 2018 Italian animator/illustrator/designer Fabio Valesini drew a new character based on something related to that day with the added twist that all the characters fit into a single walk cycle. [Watch]

Amaro and Walden Shotting short film by The Line | STASH MAGAZINE

The Line’s Amaro and Walden are Back!

Four years ago London animation house The Line introduced the world to the “rowdy boy racer, hipster hybrids” Amaro and Walden. Now the cartoon duo is back, selling weed and complaining about their neighborhood’s changing demographics. [Watch]

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Das Handwerk “Is this Still Craft?” by Emmanuel Adjei

Dutch-Ghanian director and visual artist Emmanuel Adjei carves out a starkly beautiful spot for the German craft association Das Handwerk – part of a new campaign thru the agency Heimat with extensive VFX and post handled by Storz & Escherich in Berlin. [Watch]

Vacationer Magnetism music video by Raman Djafari | | STASH MAGAZINE

Vacationer “Magnetism” Music Video by Raman Djafari

German director/animator Raman Djafari, who burst onto the Stash radar a year ago with his fearless work for FJAAK “Snow,” returns with another vibrant and dream-like music video, this one for Philadelphia’s Vacationer. [Watch]

Sog animated short film by Jonatan Schwenk | STASH MAGAZINE

Behind the Scenes on “Sog” with Director Jonatan Schwenk

Join director Jonatan Schwenk for an insightful and comprehensive look into the challenges of combining stop-motion, CG, 2D, and live action into the short film “Sog,” his multi-award winning animated allegory for tolerance and understanding. [Watch]

Forget Me Not animated short film The Animation Workshop| STASH MAGAZINE

“Forget Me Not” from The Animation Workshop

If you need a break from the speed and greed of the media rush, I recommend watching “Forget Me Not,” a gentle animated short about friendship and letting go rendered in atmospheric 3D by students from The Animation Workshop in Denmark. [Watch]

Travelers "Unfinished Stories: The Tree House" by Lobo | STASH MAGAZINE

Travelers “Unfinished Stories: The Tree House” by Guilherme Marcondes

In an effort to reduce traffic fatalities caused by distracted drivers, Travelers Insurance and TBWA\Chiat\Day New York commissioned a series of animated films imagining unfinished chapters in the lives of actual victims. [Watch]

HPE Blockchain spot by Mill+ | STASH MAGAZINE

Hooking Up with HPE’s “Blockchain”

Mill+ director Andres Eguiguren and The Mill CG crew help HPE make the case for applying blockchain technology to the transportation sector by combining the HPE logo with stylized vehicles from across the industry in this sleek, all-3D spot.
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DC Doom Patrol series Main Titles | STASH MAGAZINE

“Doom Patrol” Main Titles by Elastic

The latest incarnation of DC’s “Doom Patrol,” a 15-episode web series based on characters created in 1963 by Arnold Drake, Bob Haney, and Bruno Premiani, opens with this archly harrowing series of tableaux created by the Elastic design team. [Watch]

Netflix Polar end titles by Worship | STASH MAGAZINE

Netflix “Polar” End Titles by Worship

Polar, the Netflix action film directed by Jonas Åkerlund and based on Víctor Santos’ comic series, winds down with this arresting end credit sequence directed by Toronto’s Worship studio and produced by Tendril. [Watch]

Anthem Conviction game trailer by Neill Blomkamp | STASH MAGAZINE

Anthem “Conviction” Trailer by Neill Blomkamp

Anthem, BioWare’s new multiplayer action role-playing game, has had a rough rollout so far but the company and their publishing partners Electronic Arts are betting director Neill Blomkamp can help reset perceptions with this spectacular VFX-laced trailer. [Watch]

“The Second Coming” by Eoin Duffy for TED-Ed

Director/animator Eoin Duffy’s minimalist animation stands in stark contrast to English actor Jack Cutmore-Scott’s fraught reading of William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming” in this film commissioned by TED-Ed. [Watch]