Motion Industry Vets Damon Meena & Aaron Baumle Launch Prodco Spiders & Sparrows
October 8, 2025
The Ciclope Festival gathers the media industry’s most influential players alongside new and emerging talent, providing an intimate setting for open and honest conversations that span seniority, department, and geographic borders. [Watch]
Blinkink director Raman Djafari follows up his Euro 2024 spot for the BBC with another soccer-centric piece, this time for the MLS Leagues Cup on Apple TV with London CG and VFX house Analog Studio handling the dramatic visuals. [Watch]
Partizan director and mixed media artist Camille Boumans teams with UK filmmaker/animator Ewan Jones Morris for this loose and low-fi lyric video for The Stones’ cover of the Shirley & Company 1974 disco hit “Shame, Shame, Shame”. [Watch]
Working with the stark simplicity of ink on paper, visual artist and designer Marie Lavis provides the perfect compliment to the fractured and frenetic complexity of a demo track by seven-time Grammy winner Jacob Collier. [Watch]
Nexus Studios director Johnny Kelly’s animated character mastery takes many forms and this latest, a musical romp for Austria’s Energie AG thru Vienna agency Studio Sonntag, merges live-action sockets and CG lip-sync. [Watch]
The South Korean creative duo of 3D artist Seong Jae Hoon (aka Ticcle) and motion designer Jae Sung Kim (aka Motionkey) find life lessons in the structure and mechanics of a cassette tape in this carefully rendered personal work. [Watch]
Audi’s four-ring badge takes on steely new dimensions in these three brand IDs styled by FutureDeluxe thru agency BBH London and airing on Sky Sports F1 ahead of the 2025/26 Formula 1 season. [Watch]
Cape Town director/designer Grant Franck blends a full toolbox of motion, CG, VFX, and AI into this dynamic hybrid work, part of Puma’s SpeedCat global campaign for Austria PUMA Dassler GmbH. [Watch]
UK fashion director/photographer Jordan Hemingway launches the new Anatomic Denim global campaign for G-STAR thru Amsterdam agency Longstoryshort® with London studios Purple Martin and Microdot handling the VFX. [Watch]
The Stash crew are very excited to announce the first edition of our new print project, the STASH ANNUAL, will ship November 15 and is available now for worldwide pre-order. [Watch]
Glasgow animation and VFX studio Revenant, whose work and news we track here, just dropped us the trailer for The Pony Express, an atmospheric sci-fi feature currently in development with funding from Screen Scotland. [Watch]
NotReal’s long and prolific relationship with Mircrosft continues with the release of this vivacious film designed to emphasize the fun and friendly side of connecting communities with Microsoft’s Teams platform. [Watch]
A wonderful short film for anyone interested in craft and work/life balance, this passion project from directors Danae Gosset, Santiago Carrasquilla, and Fabián Palacios V. introduces us to Luis Benz, a 70-year old sign painter of singular character. [Watch]
Visceral action rendered with exacting draftsmanship by director Louve Sarfati Karnas and the animation crew at The Line in London elevate this new launch trailer for Supergiant Games’ Hades II franchise set for release on Sept 25. [Watch]
