Stash 25 is our biggest issue ever. It includes a full line-up of stellar international animation, vfx and mograph projects and behind the scenes material PLUS all 15 winners and finalists from the 2006 Global Student Animation Awards as Bonus films. That's over two hours of inspiration and information. Add on the seven new BONUS tracks from Universal Music Publishing Group artists Tom Vek, Fionn Regan, Magnet, Art Brut, Eric Matthews, Assembly Now, and Woodbine and we are approaching sensory overload.  

We start the issue with “Humans!” (on the cover) a dead-on black comedy disguised as a mock PSA which won the Animation Category and was chosen by 15 industry judges as The Best of 2006 in this year's Global Student Animation Awards. From there we break into a whirlwind trans-Atlantic Paris/London/NY tour through some of the planet's top studios with Buf in the driver's seat for Peugot, The Mill making a splash for Infiniti, Framestore NY cutting up for Discover, Glassworks floating away with Lux, MPC crumpling T-Mobile and Nexus seeing pink for a certain famous panther.

The frequent flyer points keep piling up as we hop on to Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, LA, Milan, and Toronto gathering a trunk-full of broadcast and motion design work from PostPanic and Punga for MTV, Colorblok for VH1, Spark for TVtropolis, Lo Iacono for Diesel, and Crush for Vespa.

And you'll need a GPS device to keep track of yourself the rest of this trip that has us back in London for Aardman's ambitious new installation at Madame Tussaud's and Ben Wheatley's virals for BBC2, before we're off to NY to see Motomichi Nakamura's video for the Knife and World Leaders Entertainment for Mega. In LA we catch a slick new Bud Light spec from Duck and Stardust's creepy new California Coastal Commission spot before we jump the Pacific to screen work from China 's brightest new studio Daysview and a mesmerizing new MV from Fatface in Hong Kong . Somehow – possibly by actually bending space and time – we also manage to squeeze in stop-motion work from Partizan and Nylon Motion, the multi-award winning short “Bendito Machine” from Zumbakamera in Barcelona and the VFX, Motion Design and Audience Choice winners from the 2006 Global Student Animation Awards.

GLOBAL STUDENT ANIMATION AWARDS 2006

ANIMATION WINNER / BEST OF 2006
“HUMANS!"

Director: THREE LEGGED LEGS
www.threeleggedlegs.com
School: OTIS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN
www.otis.edu

PEUGEOT 407 "END OF GAME"
TVC :45

Agency: BETC EURO RSCG
Director: ANTOINE BARDOU-JACQUET
Production: PARTIZAN
Animation/VFX: BUF
www.buf.fr

INFINITI “FMX" "G-SPOT"
TVC :30 x 2

Agency: TBWA\CHIAT\DAY
Director: PLEIX
Production: BLINKINK
VFX: THE MILL
www.the-mill.com

DISCOVER CARD “SCISSORS”
TVC :60

Agency: THE MARTIN AGENCY
Director: PHIL JOANOU
Production: MJZ
VFX: FRAMESTORE NY
www.framestore.com

LUX "HOT AIR BALLOON"
TVC : 90

Agency: SANTO BUENOS AIRES
Director: NACHO GAYAN
Production: STINK
VFX: GLASSWORKS
www.glassworks.co.uk

T-MOBILE “FLAT WORLD”
TVC :40

Agency: SAATCHI & SAATCHI
Director: KIM GELDENHUYS
Production: ACADEMY, EGG FILMS
VFX: MOVING PICTURE COMPANY
www.moving-picture.com

"THE PINK PANTHER"
Title design

Client: MGM / COLUMBIA PICTURES
Directors: KUNTZEL + DEYGAS
Animation: NEXUS
www.nexusproductions.com

MTV BRAND NEW CHANNEL
Broadcast design

Client: MTV NETWORKS
Director: POST PANIC
Design/animation: POSTPANIC
www.postpanic.nl

"NICK TONICO"
Broadcast design

Client: NICKELODEON LATIN AMERICA
Director: COLORBLOK
Design: FANTASIA INK
Animation: COLORBLOK
www.colorblok.com

GLOBAL TELEVISION “TVTROPOLIS”
Broadcast design

Client: CANWEST MEDIAWORKS
Director: ELAINE CANTWELL
Animation/design: SPARK
www.sparkcreativeinc.com

GLOBAL STUDENT ANIMATION AWARDS 2006

MOTION GRAPHICS WINNER
“NIKE ID CONCEPTION”

Director: TED GORE
www.tedgore.com
School: THE CREATIVE CIRCUS SCHOOL
www.creativecircus.com

MTV “BARRIO 19”
Broadcast design

Client: MTV NETWORKS
Director: MODEL ROBOT
Production: BERMUDA SHORTS
Animation: MODEL ROBOT
www.modelrobot.com

"DIESEL DENIM CAMPAIGN F/W 2006"
In-store video

Client: DIESEL
Director: LO IACONO
Animation: LO IACONO
http://lo-iacono.com

PUNGA VISUAL CONSORCIO
Recent MTV Latino work

Director: PUNGA
Design/animation: PUNGA
www.punga.tv

VESPA "BUTTERFLY"
TVC :60

Agency: DENTSU
Creative director: GLEN HUNT
Animation: CRUSH
www.crushinc.com

MADAME TUSSAUD'S PLANETARIUM "THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF STARS"
Event film (excerpts)

Director: STEFAN MARJORAM
Production/animation: AARDMAN
www.aardman.com

GLOBAL STUDENT ANIMATION AWARDS 2006

VFX WINNER
“DIVERSION"

Director: AIDAN GIBBONS, SIMON REEVES
http://diversion-film.com
School: UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
www.herts.ac.uk

CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION
"NON-NATIVE SPECIES"
TVC :30

Agency: GOODBY SILVERSTEIN & PARTNERS
Director: STARDUST
Animation: STARDUST
www.stardust.tv

TIME TRUMPET "TESCO WARS"
Viral

Client: BBC
Production: TOMBOY FILMS
Director: BEN WHEATLEY
Animation/VFX: BEN WHEATLEY
ww.mrandmrswheatley.co.uk

HUAXIA 2
Game cinematic

Client: SHENZHEN DOMAIN
Director: WANG SHANG
Animation/VFX: DAYSVIEW DIGITAL IMAGE
www.daysview.com

THE KNIFE "WE SHARE OUR MOTHERS' HEALTH"
Music video

Record label: RABID RECORDS
Director: MOTOMICHI NAKAMURA
Animation: MOTOMICHI NAKAMURA
www.motomichi.com

JOSIE "HELL'S KITCHEN"
Music Video

Director: KO FAI
Animation: FAT FACE
www.fatface.hk

MEGA BLOCKS "CREATIVITY TO THE RESCUE"
Viral

Agency: STRAWBERRYFROG , NEW YORK
Director: WORLD LEADERS ENTERTAINMENT
Production/animation: WORLD LEADERS ENTERTAINMENT
www.worldleadersentertainment.com

BUD LIGHT "ALIEN"
Spec spot :30

Director: JAN CHEN
Production/animation: DUCK
www.duckstudios.com

COCA-COLA "SUMMER", "FRIDGE"
TVCs x 2

Agency: MOTHER, LONDON
Directors: ACE NORTON, CHRIS CAIRNS
Production/animation:PARTIZAN
www.partizan.com

THE FORMAT "THE COMPROMISE"
Music video

Record label: NETTWERK
Director: BRYAN LEE
Animation: NYLON MOTION
www.nylonmotion.com

GLOBAL STUDENT ANIMATION AWARDS 2006

AUDIENCE CHOICE WINNER
“TRAVEL DIARY”

Director: KENG MING LIU
www.mrbighead.net
School: THE SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS
www.schoolofvisualarts.edu

"BENDITO MACHINE"
Short film

Director: ZUMBAKAMERA
Animation: ZUMBAKAMERA
www.zumbakamera.com

2007 GSAA winners and runners-up

ANIMATION WINNER / BEST OF 2006
"Humans" / Greg Gunn, Casey Hunt, Reza Rasoli / Otis College of Art & Design

MOTION DESIGN WINNER
"NikeID Conception" / Ted Gore / The Creative Circus School

VFX WINNER
"Diversion" / Aidan Gibbons, Simon Reeves / University of Hertfordshire

AUDIENCE CHOICE WINNER
"Travel Diary" / Keng-Ming Liu / School of Visual Arts

ANIMATION RUNNERS-UP (alphabetical order)
"ClikClak" / Victor Moulin, Thomas Wagner / Supinfocom
"Hallucii" / Goo-Shun Wang
"Mirage" / Youngwoong Jang
"Memorial" / Matt Clausen, Jon Gutman / USC, School of Cinema Television

MOTION DESIGN RUNNERS-UP (alphabetical order)
"Opening & Closing credits Parsons Animation Festival" / Elena Wen / Parsons School of Design
"Pixel Perfect" / Eric Edwards
"Travel Diary" / Keng-Ming Liu / School of Visual Arts
"Uberechenbar" / Christian Bobeth / FH Münster FB Design

VFX RUNNERS-UP (alphabetical order)
"Airshow" / Jong Jin Choi / Pratt Institute
"C.Ko Demo Reel" / Chin Ko / Otis College of Art and Design
"Earth Rover" / Garrett Norlin / Otis College of Art and Design
"Olympia 2036" / Ian Bonilla / New York University