MAKE Announces Three Winners of the 2025 Animation Thesis Grant
December 6, 2025
Effective parody is very tough to get right but the all-German team of director Charley Stadler, prodco Spingun Media, agency antoni Soap, and VFX studio Supercontinent, crack the code in this snappy spot for Theramed toothpaste. [Watch]
The latest holiday spot from Passion Animation directors Kyra Buschor and Constantin Paeplow for Swiss retail giant Migros (produced thru Agency Wirz Werbung AG), weaves live action and CG into a warm and fuzzy tale of food and family. [Watch]
Danish director Casper Balslev and animation director Jack Brown at Partizan Studios highlight the downer consequences of cannabis-impaired driving in two films for the Danish Road Safety Council thru Copenhagen agency Worth Your While. [Watch]
CD/director Robertino Zambrano at Sydney animation house KAPWA teams with co-director Christoph Sarow at AIM Creative Studio in Portugal to develop a playful illustration system for Australian price comparison platform Compare Club. [Watch]
Johan Kropp, a self-taught post artist based in Berlin makes his Stash debut with the short film Dead Head, a personal and visceral homage to vehicular muscle and a showcase for his 3D, design, editing, and compositing skills. [Watch]
London post/VFX house Black Kite and LA stop motion studio Open the Portal build out a hybrid world for US healthcare consortium Kaiser Permanente in this jaunty spot by Riff Raff directing duo The Sacred Egg thru Droga5. [Watch]
The latest short film to emerge from Motion Plus Design’s Made With program in partnership with Maxon and Adobe, Memories finds director/CG artist Mehdi Hadi building an atmospheric post apocalypse and its mechanical lifeforms. [Watch]
Take a peek into the making of the 2025 Spanish holiday spot for Swiss chocolate brand Suchard – full of warm, handcrafted family vibes courtesy of prodco BOL, with Device directing and Pangur Animation handling the stop-motion. [Watch]
To launch the 2026 edition of the venerable D&AD Awards, the brand and the agency team at Uncommon Creative issue a “deliberate provocation for the industry to prove whether creativity is dead or very much alive.” [Watch]
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]
