“On Departure” by Eoin Duffy

Air travel as presented by Eion Duffy‘s signature animation style and unique perspective on the mundane.

“On Departure” is Eoin Duffy’s debut short film from 2012. It was funded by the Irish Film Board’s Frameworks programme in conduction with The Arts Council (of Ireland) and RTE (Raidió Teilifís Éireann). [Read more]

Oskar Wrango: “Totally dangerous and insane.”

Swedish Director Oskar Wrango turns a dead simple idea into a powerful, poetic and hazardous execution in this MV for “Rivers” by Small Feet.

Wrango: “We shot it all in one extreme day in the north of Sweden. One remote octacopter pilot, one camera guy, me putting the guy on fire for real and one guy with a fire extinguisher. Totally dangerous and insane. But what do you do with almost zero budget. It was fun.

“The hard thing was to synk every take. We had only eight-second takes with 240 fps on that camera. So the helicopter had to be in the air at the same as I put the stuntman on fire, then after like 20 seconds we had to extinguish the fire on him really fast.

“The first shot when he jumps up from the water was really f*cking hard, octacopter flying fast over the water, and the camera operator had to both frame the guy and his reflection in the water, then a millisecond after frame the splash perfectly. One big problem was that we had to take that three times and the water was extremely cold. No post in the film except the paper/letter in the end clip. [Read more]

Logan Suspends Disbelief for AICP

Intriguing, tasteful and beautifully detailed title sequence for the 2013 AICP show in New York from the uber-talented crew at Logan NY. [Read more]

Polynoid Unleashes “Deadly Breed” for Nike Hypervenom

Blacklist directing collective Polynoid helps Nike’s latest athletic boot sink it’s teeth into your frontal lobe with the perfect blend of hyper-real rendering and visual adrenalin. We asked Polynoid what hurdles the spot presented: “The creature design was definitely the most challenging task on this project. Creating [Read more]

Collider Opens with Epic Titles by Neon and Rob Chiu

The Collider Conference and Job Fair launched yesterday (June 10) at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York with this stirring and epic title sequence setting the tone. Many thanks from all of us at Stash to the intrepid production team lead by creative boutique Neon, director Rob Chiu and Box of Toys Audio who rose way [Read more]

Platige Image Says F**k U to Cancer

The Archive track “Fuck U” provides the soundtrack as a CG piggy bank and an evil crayfish battle to the death in this jaw-dropper PSA for cancer research with VFX by Platige Image.

A little background from the agency DDB, Warsaw: “Alivia is an Oncology Foundation that believes in Poland the most important missing factor in the fight against cancer is money. In our non-for-profit campaign, we followed the road less travelled. Instead of the cliché route of ‘emotional blackmail’ we chose to empower people, to give them hope and show them that cancer is something you can fight and conquer.” [Read more]