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Often noted for his intricate/maximalist VFX productions, like this music video for Pharrell Williams or this spot for Jean Paul Gaultier, Division director François Rousselet keeps his latest work for Apple on a more intimate scale. [Watch]
Music videos published in the The Stash Permanent Collection will always value the director’s design/animation/VFX craft over the popularity of the performer, which makes our year-end list refreshingly different than most. [Watch]
German animation and design studio TACTYC, whose VW Amarok reveal film we featured in Stash 155, turns up the holiday gifting vibe to 11 in this opulent CG Christmas campaign for French luxury audio brand Devialet. [Watch]
To break out of the noise and chaos of the consumer marketing complex, brands need to elevate their products with outstanding creative and confident execution that snares eyeballs, ramps up desire, and opens wallets. [Watch]
Looking to “inspire positive change in the world”, motion director Andrea Braga rallies a team of 15 animators and three sound designers to enhance his original illustrations and focus attention on the plight of endangered animals. [Watch]
Whether as a way to bolster the reel or as relief from the pressures of briefs and budgets, short films provide a welcome outlet for self-expression and experimentation with 2023 delivering an extraordinary crop of work. [Watch]
Standing out in the sea of CG sneaker spots takes fresh thinking and confident execution. These three quirky films for Nike’s GT Series shoes from Rimantas Lukavicius and his CG crew at Korb deliver both with a light touch. [Watch]
2023 was another stellar year for character-driven design and animation projects with an extraordinary range of styles and production techniques all focused on a singular goal: ensuring the narrative engages and resonates. [Watch]
In their latest in-house motion project, CD Ilya Perevedentsev and the crew at Superdesigners in Hong Kong contemplate the creative insights and solutions that often arise in that state of semi-consciousness bracketing slumber. [Watch]
No other sub-genre of motion design generates the measurable excitement (clicks, views, likes, etc.) among Stash fans and subscribers as the work we classify as 3D Style – a type of CG magic realism with seemingly transportive powers. [Watch]
The crew at Frankfurt design and animation studio Styleframe drops an impossible-to-ignore product film for the revival of Oakley’s classic Mars sunglasses, a passion project of Michael Jordan’s originally released in 1998. [Watch]
With so many screens vying for viewers attention, the creative task of packaging big-budget television and streaming programming has never been more important or come with so much pressure to make a dent in popular culture. [Watch]
ECD Peter Jaworowski and the crew at Ars Thanea in Warsaw help launch the latest version of the Opera Browser with this CG opus showcasing the UI’s modular design and innovative features including built-in ChatGPT. [Watch]
The pressures of high-stakes marketing can often crush the chance for true creative experimentation in game trailers, but these six outstanding films prove that personality, passion, and playfulness are alive and well in the genre. [Watch]
