Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
This campy/comic adventure by Biscuit Filmworks director Jeff Low with VFX support from The Mill could be reason enough to start a new awards category, let’s call it “Best Urine Leakage Product Reveal.” [Watch]
Director Joe Wright and the Sibling Rivalry crew follow a nocturnal aviary expedition into the rolling hills and rattlesnakes of Simi Valley, CA, in this cinematic brand film for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. [Watch]
The Istanbul trio of director/animator Tiber Ergür, art director Muhammet Altun, and 3D artist Hasan Salih Akan collaborate on an enigmatic personal project full of drama and beautiful light. [Watch]
You have to love the confidence and audacity of brand films that create desire with style instead of explanations. Such is the case with this abstract and austere piece for Bavarian e-bike innovators FAZUA by Hamburg 3D artist Vincent Schwenk. [Watch]
Take a peek at the storymatic and animatic stages behind Le Cube’s latest pop culture out-burst for Cartoon Network Latin America – packed with “enough geeky 90’s culture, video games, and worst-best-movie references to make your heads explode.” [Watch]
Sweet, silly, sad, and ultimately sublime, the culmination of Nikita Diakur’s intriguing and innovative Ugly Project is a 12-minute animated fever dream the director describes as “a broken simulated short film about kindness and coexistence.” [Watch]
Animator/illustrator Nata Metlukh (now based in San Francisco) created her graduation film “Pura Vida” while studying at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn under the mentorship of acclaimed animator Priit Pärn. [Watch]
Three amped-up animated films anchoring the campaign for Nike’s new PhantomVSN soccer boot crafted in concert with Nike’s design team by London’s Golden Wolf who also created in-store visuals. [Watch]
This gripping animated mini-doc details the true story of Bisi Alimi, a former Nigerian TV star who went from “preaching hell fire and damnation” about homosexuality to the first person in his country to come out on national TV. [Watch]
Polyester Studio’s insightful new animated content for TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) features the voice of Guillermo Del Toro advocating how in work and in life “we must choose love over fear.” [Watch]
Possibly our most dynamic issue so far, Stash 130 packs in a vast array of motion design, animation, and VFX plus behind-the-scenes features and exclusive interviews. [Watch]
Entertainment and clarity merge perfectly in this vibrant and upbeat :30 from Buck’s Sydney studio introducing the Halo ring for Bankwest which allows you to fist-bump the payment terminal to complete your transaction. [Watch]
Fresh off the festival circuit, Shane Beam’s animated short film “Conditioner” provides a wonderfully strange and floaty kind of escape for a summer Friday afternoon. [Watch]
London motion designer, director, and lecturer Nicola Gastaldi (aka Gasta) merges his talent for GIFs with enigmatic poetry in this graphically striking short film. [Watch]
