2025 AICP Announces Post Awards Curatorial Committee
March 4, 2025
Director Chris Lockhart and the motion crew at South African studio Masters & Savant craft a sleek and cheeky product film parody as part of Google’s (ultimately successful) campaign urging Apple to update their iMessage platform. [Watch]
ECD Kevin Walker and CDs Fernando Bittar & Janice Ahn lead the BUCK team as they conjure a kinetic mix of 3D and 2D animation for a series of real-life “Tall Tales of True Deliveries” for FedEx thru BBDO. [Watch]
Veteran creative collective Pulla Studio takes time out from their client work to create a 90-second showcase for the team’s CG skills in this strikingly photo-real short film created with both Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine. [Watch]
Whether you work in animation, study animation or just love all things animated, join the crew from Bottletop Animation for an evening of animated fun, drinks and a talk by character master Fraser Davidson from Cub Studio. [Watch]
Buenos Aires director/animator Gabriel H Fermanelli just dropped us this giddy exercise in low-res character design and animation inspired by the point and click games of the nineties like Zak McKracken and Alien Mindbenders. [Watch]
Leaving their signature CG skills aside for a moment, ManvsMachine take a seat in the director’s chair on this one-shot, all in-camera road trip (with post and rig removal via Framestore) for Irish Bank PTSB thru Publicis. [Watch]
The Mouvo Conference brings together a selection of the most fascinating speakers from the global audiovisual culture scene whose work oscillates at the intersection of graphic design, animation, film, and interactive technologies. [Watch]
In a playful and surreal series of three CG short films, founder/CD Sergio del Puerto and the crew at Serial Cut in Madrid re-imagine the form and feeling of select Tokyo street lamps punctuated by bursts of jazz-fueled abstraction. [Watch]
In a refreshing break from the tropes of sunny families and friendly farmers, Elastic CD Duncan Elms and the VFX team at a52 compose a sumptuous ad for Coca-Cola’s Simply brand. [Watch]
Join the design world at FITC Toronto as we explore the future of everything innovative, technical, and creative to leave you informed, challenged, and inspired. [Watch]
Polish CG house Tektura Studio just landed on the Stash radar with this kinetic in-house ode to the classic Sony Walkman, a stylish exercise in rendering and motion that nudges forward the boundaries of 3D brand and product films. [Watch]
Mill+ director Robert Sethi and a battalion of VFX artists at The Mill hammer out a sweeping yet intricately detailed announcement trailer for Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road MMO role-playing game launching June 2024. [Watch]
UK directors Karni Arieli and Saul Freed give Stash readers an exclusive look behind the scenes at Wild Summon, their Oscar-shortlisted and BAFTA-nominated short which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palm d’Or. [Watch]
Crafting a dramatic landscape of quilted illustrations, the motion design team at Aspect captures the poignancy of key moments in director Blitz Bazawule’s feature film musical version of The Color Purple with these end titles. [Watch]
