Jack Cunningham & Nicolas Menard Join Forces as Eastend Western
February 4, 2025
Playful new promo via Taipei’s Whitelight Motion for HHmuseum, a new online platform for kids led by Taiwan’s National Palace Museum and featuring the children’s galleries of 15 public museums around the country. [Watch]
Animade directors Tom Judd and Ed Barrett craft a gentle animated tale of family and fixation in “Tend,” an eight-minute slice of branded content created for WeTransfer. [Watch]
If you’ve shared cramped quarters as a couple, you’ll appreciate this autobiographical peek into the tumultuous student days of Remus Buznea and Kyriaki Kyriakou, aka UK directing duo Remus & Kiki. [Watch]
New on the Stash radar: an all-female animation and motion design studio based in Cape Town, South Africa called Batch. And the “The Diver” is the perfectly quirky short film that caught our eye. [Watch]
Westworld actor Jeffrey Wright transforms into three airline passengers with drastically different views of the world in this brilliant branded film for The Atlantic by O Positive director David Shane with seamless 2D VFX work by The Mill. [Watch]
Peter Tomaszewicz, 3D artist and motion designer in London: “Continuing with my current allure with brutalist architecture and concrete, I felt it was right to explore fashion designers that would enchant the ideal environment. [Watch]
In the latest of The Atlantic’s series of visual essays, writer Matthew Stewart argues, 9.9% of the population comprises America’s new aristocracy, which often “takes wealth out of productive activities and invests it in walls.” [Watch]
Director Luiz Stockler in London: “Short piece [for US chemical maker Chemours] in collaboration with Ogilvy & Mather NYC for National Inventors Month commemorating the lesser known inventors of things we use each day.” [Watch]
Belgian designer/illustrator Robin Velghe and London director/animator Andy Baker convey all the lazy, smoky, fantasy-fueled heat required in the this new music video for “Lyk Dis” by NxWorries (Anderson.Paak & Knxwledge). [Watch]
In May 2016 Blizzard launched a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter called Overwatch with a series of groundbreaking CG trailers. Now, on the game’s second anniversary, Tracer and Reaper get the stop motion treatment. [Watch]
Creative Director Duncan Elms at Elastic in LA: “The series had six episodes with the themes, Alien life, Time Travel, Space Exploration, Dark Futures, Intelligent Machines, and Monsters. [Watch]
Blinkink director Nicos Livesey and The London Embroidery Studio transform 227,000 meters of thread into 600+ frames of animated tapestry in this formidable launch spot for the BBC’s coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup from Russia. [Watch]
Melbourne visual artist Alex Popescu, nudges the boundaries of filmmaking forward crafting this enigmatic music video for Seattle artist LEViT∆TE using realtime 3D rendering technology. [Watch]
“Darrel,” the animated black comedy short by Spanish co-directors Marc Briones and Alan Carabantes, chronicles the ill-fated flirtations of two luckless chameleons waiting for the subway. [Watch]
