Stash has covered our share of ambitious and intricate zoetrope-inspired films but these opening titles for the Netflix historical drama miniseries Death by Lightning is the first we’ve seen to use the device for an era-appropriate project. [Watch]
Carefully crafted in full-CG by Kyle Cooper and the team at Prologue Films, the end credits for Scott Derrickson’s genre-bending feature The Gorge, are a clear demonstration of design’s power to create emotion even after a film is over. [Watch]
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]
