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November 24, 2025
Madrid studio Kutuko, whose ambitious Hamilton spot we featured in Stash 169, lightens up the CG product film genre by transforming this project for the Xiaomi 5 Pro robot vacuum into a romantic tragicomedy. [Watch]
Director/animator Sélim Lallaoui, who co-directed the breathtaking student short film La Diplomatie de l’éclipse, joins forces with the production talents at Paris animation studio Wizz for his new visual epic, Above the Sea. [Watch]
Welcome to the A-list Dunkin’ Christmas where the BUCK animation crew hangs with the team from Artists Equity (founded by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon) while actress/comedian/renaissance woman Mindy Kaling provides the VO. [Watch]
Athens-based 3D artist/motion designer Dimitrios Sakkas (who won an Emmy in 2022 for his work on the Netflix doc A Trip to Infinity), cultivates drama and science via Mother Nature in this film for Greek health brand Eallos. [Watch]
In its 22nd edition, Pictoplasma, the world’s leading conference on contemporary character-driven creativity sets its focus on story: How can characters act as narrative devices that shape emotion, identity, and meaning – beyond affect, empathy, or cuteness? [Watch]
Tesson Studio in Paris adds a new twist to the CG watch wars with this spec work inspired by the Omega Speedmaster (aka the first wristwatch on the Moon), an experiment that “connects scientific curiosity with the poetic nature of motion.” [Watch]
Heartwarming CG spots from Montreal animation studio Tonic DNA have become a Christmas staple (see here and here), with this year’s effort focused on food insecurity during the holidays in a campaign for US insurance brand Highmark. [Watch]
Our latest issue, Stash 174, just went live, inducting another two hours of inspired motion projects into the Stash Permanent Collection, the planet’s only streaming platform dedicated to design, animation, and VFX. [Watch]
Pencil TV director Danae Gosset wrangles a crew of 10 illustrators on this warm and gentle music video, hand-painted in watercolors for the Mac Miller track “Rush Hour”, marking the 10th Anniversary of his album GO:OD AM. [Watch]
Directors Nicolás Cañellas and Mikel Pascal at Spot Studio in Barcelona infuse the colors and iconography of Antoni Gaudí’s architectural masterwork Casa Batlló into limited-edition sunglasses from eyewear brand Etnia Barcelona. [Watch]
2D animator/director Sungmin Yoo makes his Stash debut with this dynamic, single-shot promo for South Korean pay television network JTBC and their upcoming coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics games in Milano–Cortina, Italy. [Watch]
In his first venture into animation, Revolver director Steve Rogers taps the deep experience of Mathematic to craft the tale of two lost souls and how they find each other during the holidays thru Bear Meets Eagle On Fire and +61. [Watch]
ECD Raj Davsi and the FutureDeluxe crew join forces with London photographer/director Sophie Jones for an assertive CG/live-action film showcasing Peloton’s newest gear and its AI-powered coaching system, Peloton IQ. [Watch]
Reading the YouTube comments on the 2025 version of Coke’s “Holidays Are Coming” commercial (which is discreetly labeled as “Created by Real Magic AI”) is to witness the full wrath of AI haters and the evil they feel the technology is sowing. [Watch]
