Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
Using 2D animated frames to guide the motion of their 3D characters, the Rocketpanda crew in Verona, Italy, make a light-hearted but fully convincing case to no longer fear the dentist for dental device brand Mectron. [Watch]
Director Jie Liou and the team at Floating Point Art in Taipei, Taiwan, just landed on the Stash radar with the release of the studio’s first short film, a precise and expansive CG ode to convergence called Origin. [Watch]
Paris animation/design house Pencil TV, director Danae Gosset, and co-director HouHou drop a lovely merger of metaphors and mixed media in this music video for Sudanese-American rapper Bas. [Watch]
Expanding on their infatuation with American Football, Brighton animation innovators Cub Studio spin up a series of hand-painted 3D assets showcasing the 30 players selected to this year’s NFL All-Pro Team. [Watch]
Following on their series titles for Band of Brothers and The Pacific, Imaginary Forces take to the sky for an epic two-and-a-half-minute sequence of cinematic drama and WWII airborne heroics for Apple TV+. [Watch]
Director Jonghwan Kim and the team at VCRWORKS in Seoul up the interest level of their latest Brawl Stars trailer with sly but not subtle references to multiple retro 2D animation styles including Powerpuff Girls, Looney Toons, and golden era Disney. [Watch]
CD Jorge Canedo Estrada and designer Avikali Lomavatu at Ordinary Folk in Vancouver team with composer Ambrose Yu for an experimental personal project they call “Instrumental Visual Poem” where the music drives the design and animation. [Watch]
Kick-start all your creative bits with Stash 163, the latest feast of curated inspiration to hit the Stash Permanent Collection, the planet’s only streaming platform dedicated to exceptional motion design, animation, and VFX. [Watch]
Hong Kong animation studio Morning Giants punches up the release of the limited edition Reverse Trike Time and case set created by specialty watchmaker Anicorn and inspired by Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding game. [Watch]
Meta introduced its VR game Asgard’s Wrath 2 with a rampaging animated campaign including this visceral trailer from director John Likens who teamed with VFX super Ivan Guerrero and the post team at Method Studios. [Watch]
Creative director Igor Sordokhonov and the Media.Work CG motion crew transform the line between beauty and evidence-based science into a riveting sequence of facts and metaphors in this new film for US skincare brand SkinCeuticals. [Watch]
ManvsMachine laid aside their usual digital toolkit for this celebration of Samsung’s semiconductor prowess, developing a fully in-camera process using a scanning electron microscope to film nanoscopic 3D-printed models. [Watch]
Mill+ director Tim Fox and The Mill post teams in three countries pull together for an adventure in design maximalism for this cross up of Mercedes-Benz and the 2023 League of Legends World championships held in Seoul. [Watch]
Mr. Porter, the men’s online luxury lifestyle retailer, rolled through this past holiday season anchored by these three social media films designed and built by the team at Clim Studio in Barcelona. [Watch]
