Jack Cunningham & Nicolas Menard Join Forces as Eastend Western
February 4, 2025
The full release of Amplitude Studios’ sci-fi strategy game Endless Space 2 hit PCs last week with the help of this sleek clip created by French director Niels Prayer, ULF Productions, and the irrepressible 3D specialists at Supamonks in Paris. [Watch]
Inspired by their shared fascination with myths and stories, the directing duo of Chris Lenox Smith and Jesse Casey at Mixtape Club in NYC, teams with children’s author Adam Gidwitz and illustrator R Kikuo Johnson to update a Japanese folk tale. [Watch]
US studio Swell.tv and Buenos Aires motion designer Manu Correa Soto apply snappy moves and a stripped down collage treatment to this online film for artisanal San Francisco coffee company Port of Mokha. [Watch]
For their first in-house animated short, New York prodco Dress Code tackles a story of childhood addiction. In production for two years, the film renders a complex issue in a stark palette punctuated by fluid transitions and powerful visual collisions. [Watch]
UK director Kris Hofmann, who charmed us with her gentle call to save Britain’s hedgehogs, is back with another warm and tactile multi-media stop-motion project. [Watch]
Strong character work, wonderful art direction and a brief lesson in listening from Léa Cousty and her short film “Sur Ecoute,” created during her fourth year studying animation at Supinfocom Valenciennes. [Watch]
Yambo Studio in Tel Aviv nudges the architectural visualization industry out of its comfort zone (of pristinely rendered but often sterile imagery) with this playful retail spot for a residential tower in their hometown. [Watch]
David Chontos, a director and the head of CG at PSYOP LA, describes his latest short film as “part exercise of passion and part love letter – ‘Sisters’ is a fragment of some lost, tragic opera.” [Watch]
Watch how the Sao Paulo office of Wieden+Kennedy created their striking new visual identity based on a geometric pattern found right under their feet – on the city’s sidewalks. [Watch]
In 2015, Barcelona director Ernest Desumbila burst onto the Stash radar showcasing his graphic design roots in a meticulous jaw-dropper for Adidas soccer boots called “There Will be Haters.” [Watch]
US VFX shop Ingenuity Studios bring the supporting animation, CG, and compositing to Joseph Kahn’s stylish rush of contortionist aliens and replicant Imagine Dragons in “Thunder.” [Watch]
The idea that rising temperatures are bad for business as well as the planet may prove to be one of the most powerful factors revealed by research into climate change – as it directly threatens the financial health of corporations and governments. [Watch]
Los Angeles freelance art director and designer CJ Cook reveals the design and motion process behind “Totems,” his personal experiment with “colors, camera moves, and different kinds of animation.” [Watch]
Hot on the heels of his nightmarish opening for Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” on Starz, Patrick Clair kicks open the doors on Marvel’s “Iron Fist” for Netlflix with this energized and inky mocap spectacle. [Watch]
