Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
On May 2, the Pictoplasma Festival returns to Berlin to celebrate the art and craft of character design – an electric and eclectic gathering of over 700 artists, illustrators, filmmakers, plus game, graphic, and product designers. [Watch]
With a nod to Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, directing duo Kylie Matulick & Todd Mueller and the Psyop crew team with Sun Creature Studio in Copenhagen to transform Oregon into a land of fantasy/adventure. [Watch]
The PromaxBDA Europe 2018 conference opened in Rome yesterday with this lighthearted collision of animation, stop motion and live action created by Milan design studio Alkanoids. [Watch]
London designer/art director Dan Hoopert creates an austere yet poetic CG brand film featuring the Palissade seating collection designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Danish furniture and housewares company HAY. [Watch]
Nexus directors Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes first appeared in Stash in issue 2, way back in October 2004. Since then we’ve inducted 20 projects by the London duo into the Stash Permanent Collection and placed four of those on the cover. [Watch]
UK director/animator Hannah Jacobs’ lends a childlike illustrative whimsy to the delicate and highly personal track “Secret for the Mad” by English singer-songwriter, author, and YouTuber Dorothy Miranda “Dodie” Clark. [Watch]
“Smart Matter,” the first in the Hype Cycle series of futurist films coming from UK digital art and design studio Universal Everything, explores “human-machine collaboration through performance and emerging technologies.” [Watch]
Started as a Facebook group, Punanimation has since evolved into “a collective of equality-driven ladies aiming to support, connect and share women’s work within the animation industry.” [Watch]
To mark International Women’s Day 2018, Strange Beast director Anna Ginsburg surveys the evolution of the female form and its perceptions over the last 30,000 years. [Watch]
The newly unified Paris studios of MPC Advertising and Mikros handle the feathery creature craft in this cheeky and hard-to-ignore full-CG spot directed by FutureDeluxe for UK mortgage brokers L&C thru agency Fold7. [Watch]
London illustrator/animator Rosanna Wan supplies the disarmingly innocent visual style in this film for The School of Life’s alternative to superficial dating apps. [Watch]
Director Spike Jonze, who won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for “Her” in 2014, seems the obvious choice for this four-minute dazzler featuring another female-voiced AI who helps cheer up FKA Twigs. [Watch]
Japanese artist/director ShiShi Yamazaki brings her hand-painted rotoscope magic to a dynamic new spot for Chanel’s Gabrielle bag starring British model/actress/phenom Cara Delevingne. [Watch]
Tic Motion, a Beirut-based collective of designers and animators, create an undulating, enigmatic, and ultimately entrancing music video for Kuwaiti singer/songwriter Tamara Qaddoumi. [Watch]
