Cutters Studios Expands Roster With Editor Kate Owen
February 6, 2025
One of our biggest issues ever, STASH 135 packs two and half hours of new motion brilliance (including behind the scenes features and exclusive interviews) into The Stash Permanent Collection – the planet’s premier online video archive of design, animation, and VFX. [Watch]
NYC art director/animator/illustrator Damien Bastelica channels his first-hand experience of bullying in the workplace (during his first job as an intern in France) into a comedic story of revenge gone wild in “Hell Of A Week.”
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Artist and technologist Amir B Jahanbin powers up his signature low-fi 3D charm for producer/musician and fellow Brooklynite brz on the track “Daylight” which Jahanbin says is all about “The meeting of the sun and the moon.” [Watch]
Spanish motion man Albert Oriol animates the work of 36 designers and illustrators (each rendering a letter or number) to create this joyful and vibrant contribution to the sixth edition of the 36 Days of Type project. [Watch]
Detroit motion studio First Fight keep the energy high and visuals fun to nail this walk thru of the finer points of buying and selling sneakers via online resale site StockX. [Watch]
Best known for his anime series including Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, director Shinichiro Watanabe brings his multi-genre style to this stranger-in-a-stranger-land video for LA producer/musician/rapper Flying Lotus. [Watch]
UK child protection charity NSPCC continues their string of heartfelt animated brand films with “Tipping the Scales,” an assured and elegant explainer from London design and animation agency Fred & Eric. [Watch]
Dexton Deboree’s new documentary exploring the history of the Nike Air Jordan 1, called “Unbanned – the Legend of AJ1,” opens with this magnetic sequence from Los York partner and the global creative director Shane Griffin. [Watch]
Munich 3D masters Aixsponza mine classical sculpture motifs for inspiration in their latest promo created direct for Nike Global Football and their Mercurial and Phantom Series boots. [Watch]
German director and digital artist Tobias Gremmler expands on his experimental CG motion capture work with a transcendent interpretation of Björk’s body and face for “Tabula Rasa,” a track off her 2017 release Utopia. [Watch]
Back in 2013, Barcelona VFX house Big Lazy Robot released a dystopian CG jaw-dropper called “Keloid.” Their new film, “The Host of the Heavens,” retains all the merciless technology of that effort while ramping up the sci-fi action. [Watch]
Oscar-nominated stop-motion maven PES (aka Adam Pesapane) uses actual discarded ocean plastic to build the unlucky fish at the center of this spot for Corona and conservation group Parley thru Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam. [Watch]
Alberto Mielgo (aka Pinkman), who recently directed the spectacular “Witness” episode of Love, Sex, and Robots on Netflix, burst onto the Stash radar back in 2010 with three short films and ended up on the cover of Stash 66. [Watch]
The animation crew at The Line in East London help director Wesley Louis explore his family’s Caribbean roots in a rollicking sci-fi adventure centered on Connie, a young British girl, and a mysterious giant robot. [Watch]
