Tokyo-based director/designer Hiroshi Takagishi, whose striking Poem short film we published here, expands on his fascination with organic lifeforms in his new CG motion piece created for display at Museum 1 in Busan, South Korea. [Watch]
3D artist and filmmaker Franz Impler, whose bonkers grad film Out Of Bounds we featured in Stash 149, is back with a new short film – complete with his surreal story-telling and signature unpolished CG style. [Watch]
Channeling his many years creating corporate brand films, motion designer/AD Waldemar Borth takes a satirical poke at the tropes of the genre by fusing his design and post experience with an array of AI tools. [Watch]
The second season of the TV series “Witch: Flamed Heart”, a supernatural drama set in Renaissance Greece, opens with these atmospheric CG titles courtesy of CD Tony Zagoraios and his crew at Yeti Pictures in Athens. [Watch]
Expanding on the miniature world they created for Airbnb’s Aircover spot, group CD Joe Mullen and the BUCK team conjure three new 30-second spots “celebrating those little perks you just can’t find in a hotel.” [Watch]
Jelly directing duo KITCHEN translates four serious super-pollutants into scary/sweet characters in this 90-second animated brand film for The Climate and Clean Air Coalition thru social impact agency Purpose. [Watch]
Motion North 49 kicks off in Manchester Oct. 16 with special guests Ryan Knowles and Greg McKneally from London VFX powerhouse Electric Theatre Collective and 3D artist/illustrator Yippiehey (aka Jacob Eisinger). [Watch]
The biggest names in men’s tennis star in this sweeping action-scifi-fantasy-Viking-adventure-tennis film helmed by directing duo Los Pérez with absolutely epic VFX handled by the team at Electric Theatre Collective. [Watch]
Founded in 2007, the ANIMANIMA International Animation Festival once again takes over the Serbian city of Čačak with a program of screenings, exhibitions, lectures, and retrospectives. [Watch]
The CG stylists at Media.Work, whose recent work for Skinceuticals we featured in Stash 164, channel a more playful tone in this new series of branding clips designed to “redefine the visual blueprint” for Pinterest. [Watch]
In the first of two films for Acer’s line of Predator Gaming PCs, the 2veinte animation crew showcase their 2D character and action skills as they unveil a squad of superheros in a new campaign thru agency McCann Demand. [Watch]
Take a BTS peek at how Plains of Yonder directors Katrina Crawford and Mark Bashore (Emmy-nominated here and here) and designer/animator Cian McKenna strung together the titles for the Apple TV+ series Time Bandits. [Watch]
The Digital Design Days 2024 festival opens Oct 6th in Milan with this title sequence by the team at Territory Studio in London blending classical art and architecture references with austere motion design and typography. [Watch]
Jean-Sébastien Baillat and his Montreal motion studio (who landed on the Stash radar last year with this branding work), layer up AI-generated imagery into an intriguing campaign for local projection mapping festival MAPP_MTL. [Watch]