Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
Kick-off 2022 with a shot of creative adrenaline – take two minutes to check out this preview of the 31 brilliant design, animation, and VFX projects included in Stash 151. [Watch]
Finally clear of all his distribution deals, Canadian director/animator and graphic artist Robert Valley just made his celebrated animated short Pear Cider and Cigarettes available online for your viewing pleasure. [Watch]
French directing collective Megaforce (who we predict will win every industry award possible with this recent spot for Burberry) team with Los Angeles VFX studio Kevin to plant an eco-message for HP’s HP+ plan. [Watch]
London 3D artist and motion designer Peter Tomaszewicz, whose talent for surreal CG was firmly established in films like The Shrewd Awakening and Run-Of-The-Mill, just dropped his newest visual experiment called Power Junk. [Watch]
Turkish director and CG artist Serkan Çelik takes us on an intimate tour of the VIPP Shelter, a minimalist glass and steel cabin tucked carefully beside an idyllic lake in the Swedish woods. [Watch]
Brothers Swann and Yoann Chesnel, the Paris-based directors who swept onto the Stash radar in 2020 with their multi-award-winning short film Falling Down, return with a mesmerizing new music video for German producer duo KIDSØ. [Watch]
London VFX studio Analog, who explored the meditative side of CG sand in their 2020 short film Sandtimer, expand into a full “shifting, transforming, and evolving journey through the elements” for the launch of Burberry’s Hero fragrance. [Watch]
Director/animators Vinicius Lavor and Enzo Kinukawa help Brazilian streetwear retailer Sneakers BR raise awareness and funds for the preservation of the pink river dolphin (Boto Cor de Rosa) with this stand-out CG film. [Watch]
In her debut work with London prodco BlinkInk, director Renee Zhan mixes heavy metal and horror tropes in a puppet-driven appeal to Austrians to exterminate the old and inefficient furnaces hulking in their basements. [Watch]
With a series of jarring miniature vignettes, Zauberberg directing team Dorian & Daniel make the case that the future of climate change is “In Our Hands” for Austria’s Erste Bank thru agency Jung von Matt/Donau. [Watch]
Directors Fabrice Le Nezet and Dan Tobin Smith at Optical Arts in London leverage the language and tone of modern smartphone ads to deliver an unsettling message for UK domestic abuse charity Refuge. [Watch]
The Netflix feature-Length animated special Hilda & The Mountain King opens with these titles by Giant Ant, a “software-agnostic” mix of 2.5-D and cel designed to “give the audience a taste of what’s to come without any big spoilers”. [Watch]
Barcelona director/animator and CG artist Andrés Reisinger teams with Portland-based musician/producer André Allen Anjos (aka RAC), and British poet Arch Hades for a 10-minute “journey through our collective 21C existential crisis.” [Watch]
The cel and CG animation crews at Bliss in Barcelona partner with directors Pau López, Gerardo del Hierro, and Tomás Peña (aka Manson) to craft a message of hope in response to the Cumbre Vieja volcano eruption in the Canary Islands. [Watch]
