Berlin studio Colors And The Kids just dropped us their quick and chaotic pop culture mash-up with Nike x LEGO joining forces for a global campaign designed to work on both mobile screens and massive billboards. [Watch]
Captured entirely in camera with no VFX or post production, Optical Arts’ newest in-house visual experiment Ignis considers the beauty of combustion and “the complex relationship humanity has with fire”. [Watch]
Tokyo-based director/designer Hiroshi Takagishi, whose striking Poem short film we published here, expands on his fascination with organic lifeforms in his new CG motion piece created for display at Museum 1 in Busan, South Korea. [Watch]
3D artist and filmmaker Franz Impler, whose bonkers grad film Out Of Bounds we featured in Stash 149, is back with a new short film – complete with his surreal story-telling and signature unpolished CG style. [Watch]
Channeling his many years creating corporate brand films, motion designer/AD Waldemar Borth takes a satirical poke at the tropes of the genre by fusing his design and post experience with an array of AI tools. [Watch]
The second season of the TV series “Witch: Flamed Heart”, a supernatural drama set in Renaissance Greece, opens with these atmospheric CG titles courtesy of CD Tony Zagoraios and his crew at Yeti Pictures in Athens. [Watch]
Expanding on the miniature world they created for Airbnb’s Aircover spot, group CD Joe Mullen and the BUCK team conjure three new 30-second spots “celebrating those little perks you just can’t find in a hotel.” [Watch]
Jelly directing duo KITCHEN translates four serious super-pollutants into scary/sweet characters in this 90-second animated brand film for The Climate and Clean Air Coalition thru social impact agency Purpose. [Watch]
Motion North 49 kicks off in Manchester Oct. 16 with special guests Ryan Knowles and Greg McKneally from London VFX powerhouse Electric Theatre Collective and 3D artist/illustrator Yippiehey (aka Jacob Eisinger). [Watch]
The biggest names in men’s tennis star in this sweeping action-scifi-fantasy-Viking-adventure-tennis film helmed by directing duo Los Pérez with absolutely epic VFX handled by the team at Electric Theatre Collective. [Watch]
Founded in 2007, the ANIMANIMA International Animation Festival once again takes over the Serbian city of Čačak with a program of screenings, exhibitions, lectures, and retrospectives. [Watch]
The CG stylists at Media.Work, whose recent work for Skinceuticals we featured in Stash 164, channel a more playful tone in this new series of branding clips designed to “redefine the visual blueprint” for Pinterest. [Watch]
In the first of two films for Acer’s line of Predator Gaming PCs, the 2veinte animation crew showcase their 2D character and action skills as they unveil a squad of superheros in a new campaign thru agency McCann Demand. [Watch]
Take a BTS peek at how Plains of Yonder directors Katrina Crawford and Mark Bashore (Emmy-nominated here and here) and designer/animator Cian McKenna strung together the titles for the Apple TV+ series Time Bandits. [Watch]