Ryan Burke, creative producer at Google’s Creative Lab: “These days we’re consuming more news than ever, and sometimes, it can feel like there are only problems out there. But the fact is, there is a plethora of good news happening. [Watch]
London branding/ad agency Mmmultiply merge their collective paranoia with a brilliant take on lyrics from Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” to create these twitchy and beautifully stylized titles for FOX’s new spy series “Deep State.” [Watch]
Inspired by vinyl toys and afro-futurism, New York director Kristian Mercado enlists Buenos Aires studio DeTuco to conjure a tripped out 2D/3D animated adventure for venerable American hip hop trio De La Soul. [Watch]
IBM’s inaugural Think conference hit Vegas earlier this year complete with this ambitious, flexible, and beautiful branding scheme created by Athletics NYC and foam Studio, the commercial arm of Berlin’s Zeitguised. [Watch]
The maneki-neko, aka the Japanese fortune cat, gets a frenetic overhaul by 26 artists in 26 seconds in this smile-inducing project put together by Moscow animation studio Petrick. [Watch]
In June 2017 Stash published the trailer for “Float,” a brilliant and enigmatic CG fantasy/adventure directed by Kohei Yoshino with music by Haruna Karasuda. Now the duo is back with this fluid and whimsical work for the Japan Media Arts Festival. [Watch]
Animator/programmer Raven Kwok’s talents for generative visuals and processing algorithms prove a perfect compliment for musician/scientist Max Cooper’s track “Rule 110” which attempts “to visualize a Turing-complete machine.” [Watch]
From their base in Vilnius, Lithuania, CG masters Korb continue to create stylish, intriguing, and often witty visuals for an array of international brands, like this latest project highlighting the kinetic talents of Nike’s Zoom KD XI basketball shoe. [Watch]
… Kendrick Lamar & SZA “All The Stars” directed by Dave Meyers and The Little Homies with BUF, the pioneering Paris VFX house with credits on everything from “The Matrix” to “Blade Runner 2049,” handling the digital duties. [Watch]
Megan Palero, a motion designer/animator based in the Philippines, crafts a complex geometric world populated with surreal and gentle characters in this dreamy music video for “Caterpillar Motion” by Philadelphia rapper/producer Sudo Williams. [Watch]
A finalist at the 2018 Student Academy Awards, “EMUNAH” is an intense full-CG film about the dystopian results of creating a supreme artificial intelligence – directed and scored by Sang Hyoun Han (aka DOMCAKE) at SVA. [Watch]
To promote the 2018 Mural Festival in Vancouver, hometown studio Linetest pay tribute to the previous murals of the week-long summer event using “a brick as a focal point to tie together the many different mural styles.” [Watch]
NYC animation director Chris Carboni (who created the fabulous Cruisr “All Over” music video featured in Stash 109), just released this animated short film about a woman struggling with Transient Global Amnesia.
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A mysterious footballer evolves into an urban legend of terrifying skill in this epic/comic film via Black Label director Matthew Vaughn and The Mill’s VFX crew thru Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam for Nike’s PhantomVSN football boots. [Watch]