Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
Freshly-signed Strange Beast director Anna Ginsburg explores sustainability issues in the fashion world with this inviting and inventive 2D brand film based on illustrations by Sara Andreasson for UK luxury department store Selfridges. [Watch]
British philosopher Philippa Foot introduced her ethical thought experiment The Trolley Problem in 1967 to back her argument that our moral judgments are powered by rational thought. [Watch]
Paris VFX/animation and sound design studio Pilule & Pigeon teams with French animator/director Axel Digoix (“Despicable Me 2”, “The Little Prince”) for a melancholy but beautifully drafted music video called “Tenere Taqqal” by Grammy-winning Saharan band Tinariwen. [Watch]
UK design mavens DixonBaxi wrap a six-month quest to reinvent A+E’s History Channel while developing “a potent new brand strategy and comprehensive design language that challenges what the brand is.” [Watch]
In the rush of 2016 holiday spots you may have missed this one (we did): the migratory adventures of an intrepid Scandinavian Robin brought to life in impeckable feathery detail by Rogue director Sam Brown and the VFX crew at The Mill in London. [Watch]
The first case of motion marijuana on Stash arrives appropriately as this crazed music video, a multimedia-fest created by Tal Zagreba, Robert Moreno and Daniel Sasson for “Legal Eyes,” a track from Israeli artists Hadag Nahash and Infected Mushroom. [Watch]
If you’ve ever felt like your job resembles a treadmill or your labor qualifies as a commodity, you will identify with the robots in “Vicious Cycle,” a delightful new short film from Michael Marczewski, a motion designer and director at ManvsMachine in London. [Watch]
Join Korean graphic designer Jaewoo Lee as he gives us a glimpse into how and why he made “Draw the Imagination,” a branding exercise for his yet-to-be design studio created during his studies at Visual Design Art School in Seoul, South Korea. [Watch]
“The Ivory Game” released worldwide on Netflix in late 2016 exposing the brutal world of underground ivory trafficking. This opening sequence, which embeds salient facts into meticulously rendered 3D, was created by Vienna VFX and motion design studio Kaiserlicht. [Watch]
Vitaliy Shushko, a director/animator/artist from Saint Petersburg, Russia leapt onto the Stash radar in Jan. 2015 when he released the teaser for his first film called “X-Story.” [Watch]
Here’s a little something to wake up your first Wednesday of 2017: a wonderfully NSFW-ish short capturing the tension and miscommunication of many relationships called “Forward.” The film was created by 23 year-old Sydney illustrator and animation student Haein Kim. [Watch]
Having lived in Edinburgh for six years, Romanian-born director/designer Andrei Staruiala set out to capture the wit and peculiar charm of Scottish sayings in a series of 31 animations released as an animated advent calendar during December 2016. [Watch]
Join director, animator, and illustrator Benjy Brooke as he walks us thru his latest labor of love, a vibrant and kinetic animated mini-masterwork called “Power Hungry,” a twisty, future-adventure about a road-tripper whose self-driving electric car runs out of batteries. [Watch]
A powerful concept and frame-perfect execution from director Åsa Lucander and the Aardman crew made this emotional, low-key ad for Alzheimer’s Research UK a stand-out in the crowded 2016 holiday season. [Watch]
