When the studio booked to deliver the 2025 NodeFest opening titles suddenly backed out, conference organizer James Cowen and his motion crew at Yes Captain in Melbourne, had just three weeks to knock out a replacement sequence. [Watch]
Director/3D animator János Nyujtó (whose spec Nike spot we featured in Stash 173) returns with another ambitious personal experiment, this time in the guise of a product film for a fictional wind power generation and storage system. [Watch]
London-based director/designer Sijin Liu combines live action, motion design, and a dusting of AI to craft one of the most striking music videos of the year, a sensual and stylized three-minute opus for Taiwanese singer/songwriter Siri Lee. [Watch]
After an impressive run of character-based short films (see here and here) Jake Wegesin and Frankie Principe at Ambient Press, tackle their first branded spec project, a snappy and carefully rendered film for British folding bicycle brand Brompton. [Watch]
In the 10 years since their student film Garden Party garnered them an Oscar nomination, the founders of Illogic Studios in Paris have carved their own niche in the motion world with projects as diverse at the feature film pitch Scavengers and beautiful brand work like this holiday showcase for Guerlain. [Watch]
Founded 150 years apart, luxury Swiss watchmakers Ulysse Nardin (1846) and URWERK (1997), merge timelines and launch the new UR-FREAK timepiece with this latest volley in the CG horological wars by the team at FRAME in Copenhagen. [Watch]
