Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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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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]
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, 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]
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]
The MPC VFX crew conjure an array of evil and existential threats to BMW’s new luxury X7 SAV in this 75-second blockbuster directed by MJZ’s Dante Ariola and inspired by kid’s adventure stories. [Watch]
Nexus director Johnny Kelly lets Stash fans in on the challenges and process behind his new music-driven, puppet-filled brand films for Cheerios produced through 72andSunny. [Watch]
Blur founder Tim Miller (aka the director of Deadpool) and David Fincher, who both tried gallantly to make Eric Powell’s Goon comics into a feature film, have another adult animation treat dropping March 15th on Netflix. [Watch]
