Stash 26 is an unpredictable whirlwind of international animation, VFX and motion design that promises to give your frontal lobe a slap and unblock your creative juices with new work from Weta Digital, Psyop, Lobo, Animal Logic, Digital Domain, Wizz, Head Gear, Exopolis, Satoshi Tomioka and introduces you to must-see new talent like E-Rock, PetPunk, Didelidi and Monkeymen. And speaking of unpredictable, the three BONUS films this month show off the new and divergent animation directing talents recently signed to Bermuda Shorts in London. The seven BONUS music tracks are from Seattle's legendary Sub Pop Records and include inspiring new work from CSS, Comets on Fire, Chad VanGaalen, The Thermals, The Album Leaf, Wolf Eyes and Oxford Collapse.

We get issue 26 rolling with a ball of fun from New Zealand's Weta Digital for Travellers Insurance before stomping on to synchronized robots from Sway for Hyundai, hilarious bald-face-bear-type-things for the Irish Lotto from Brownbag (on the cover), a kooky campaign for Slim Jim from Zoic, gravity-defying beautiful people for Coke from Can PH in Paris, high-caffeine spots from Electric Company director James Paterson for Mr. Sub and the iconic and mesmerizing new iPod spot from Exopolis.

And then, with no apologies, we release complete and unfettered creative chaos including: two recent music videos from breakout Toronto director Drew Lightfoot, off the wall broadcast design and motion graphics from France, Singapore, Spain, Lithuania and Sweden by Première Heure, Didelidi, Cannonball, PetPunk, English & Pockett and the Character Shop, and tripped out short films from Berlin's Monkeymen and directors Jon Yeo and Issac King. Where do we possibly go from there? We collapse into total visually anarchy with videos from E-Rock for AIDSWolf and Robert Seidel for Zero 7.

We do manage to regain some measure of control for the remainder of the disk as we roll through beautifully crafted work from Psyop for Shell, Lobo for Dupont, Wizz and Ex-voto for Match.com, Animal Logic for the Telemetry Orchestra, Head Gear for MTV, HunterGatherer for Nike and Foreign Office for Nokia. And then, as a kind of triple exclamation mark at the end of it all, we close with the new “Exit” viral from Nexus director Satoshi Tomioka and Kanaban Graphics which has to be one of the most frantic, surreal and stunningly choreographed chase sequences in cartoon-nightmare history.

TRAVELERS "SNOWBALL"
TVC :30

Agency: FALLON MINNEAPOLIS
Director: DANTE ARIOLA
Production: MJZ
VFX: WETA DIGITAL
www.wetadigital.com

HYUNDAI "DRUMLINE"
TVC :30

Agency: THE RICAHRDS GROUP
Director: JOHN ALLARDICE  
Animation: SWAY
www.swaystudio.com

LOTTO "FISHMAN", "NUMBERS", "WASHING MACHINE"
TVCs : 30

Agency: DDFH&B
Director: RORY BRESNIHAN
Production/animation: BROWN BAG FILMS
www.brownbagfilms.com

SLIMJIM "CAMOUFLAGE", "DECOY", "TRAP"
TVCs :30

Agency: CRISPIN PORTER & BOGUSKY
Director: TOMORROW'S BRIGHTEST MINDS
Production: OIL FACTORY
Animation/VFX: ZOIC STUDIOS
www.zoicstudios.com

COCA-COLA "THE CHASE"
TVC :60

Agency: PUBLICIS CONSEIL PARIS
Director: SÉBASTIEN CHANTREL
Production: PREMIÈRE HEURE
VFX: PREMIÈRE HEURE
www.premiere-heure.ph

GM “ELEVATION"
TVC :60

Agency: DEUTSCH INC
Director: PHIL JOANOU
Production: MJZ
VFX: DIGITAL DOMAIN
www.digitaldomain.com

APPLE IPOD NANO “COLORS”
TVC :30

Agency: TBWA\CHIAT\DAY
Directors: MARK ROMANEK, EXOPOLIS
Production: ANONYMOUS CONTENT
Animation/design: EXOPOLIS
www.exopolis.com

DREW LIGHTFOOT
Recent music videos

CONSTANTINES "WORKING FULL-TIME"
Record label: SUBPOP / THREE GUT RECORDS

GUSTER "ONE MAN WRECKING MACHINE"
Record label: WARNER MUSIC/REPRIS

E4 MUSIC
Broadcast design

Client: CHANNEL 4
Director: JAN BRZECZKOWSKI
Production/animation: PREMIÈRE HEURE
www.premiere-heure.ph

CHANNEL V "TOP 100 LOONIES"
Broadcast design

Client: CHANNEL V MALAYSIA
Director: LULU LI
Animation/design: DIDELIDI
http://didelidi.com

TV6 SWEDEN
Broadcast design

Client: VIASAT BROADCASTING UK LTD
Director: DAN CAPSTICK
Design/production: ENGLISH & POCKETT
www.english-pockett.com
Animation: THE CHARACTER SHOP
www.thecharactershop.co.uk

MR. SUB "BUTTON POP", "WORLD TILT"
TVCs :30

Agency: ZIG INC. TORONTO
Director: JAMER PATERSON
Production/animation: ELECTRIC COMPANY
www.electriccompany.ca

INCULTO "WELCOME, LITHUANIA "
Music video

Design/animation: PET PUNK
www.petpunk.com

"BEAUTY IS THE PROMISE OF HAPPINESS"
Short film

Director: JON YEO
Animation/design: JON YEO

AIDS WOLF "SPIT TASTES LIKE METAL"
Music video

Record label: WYLD FILE PRODUCTIONS
Director: E-ROCK
Design: SERIPOP
www.seripop.com
Animation: E-ROCK
www.e--rock.com

TELEMETRY ORCHESTRA
“UNDER THE CHERRY TREE”
Music video

Record label: UNDERCOVER MUSIC
Director: DAEL OATES
Design/animation: ANIMAL LOGIC
www.animallogic.com

NIKE "ONE TIME ONLY"
Virals x 3

Client: NIKE
Director: TODD ST. JOHN
Animation/design: HUNTERGATHERER
www.huntergatherer.com

ANORAK "RUNNING OUT OF MEMORIES"
Music video

Record label: RHONDA RECORDS /HOUSTON PARTY
Director: CANNONBALL
Animation: CANNONBALL
www.cannonballstudio.com

FOREIGN OFFICE
Recent work for Nokia

Design/animation: FOREIGN OFFICE
www.foreignoffice.com

ZERO 7 FEATURING JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ "FUTURES"
Music video

Record label: ATLANTIC RECORDS / TIME WARNER
Director: ROBERT SEIDEL
Production/post: 2MINDS
www.2minds.de

"ROOTSNINE"
Short film

Director: MONKEYMEN
Design/animation: MONKEYMEN
www.monkeymen.tv
Production/3D: M BOX - TRICKY MOTION
www.m-box.de

SHELL “THE CHASE”
TVC :45

Agency: JWT LONDON
Directors: MARIE HYON, MARCO SPIER
Production: FILMWORKS DUBAI
Animation: PSYOP
www.psyop.tv

DUPONT "HI SCI"
TVC :60

Agency: OGILVY NYC
Director: LOBO
Production: THE EBELING GROUP
Animation/design: LOBO
www.lobo.cx

MATCH.COM
TVC :30

Agency: MARCEL REPUBLIQUE PARIS
Director: THOMAS TYMAN
Animation: EX-VOTO
www.exvoto.net
Post: WIZZ
www.wizz.fr

MTV 48 FEST
Event film

Client: MTV INTERNATIONAL
Director: JULIAN GREY
Animation: HEAD GEAR ANIMATION
www.headgearanimation.com

PRAVDA ONE MINUTE FILM FESTIVAL "MATCHES"
TVC :30

Client: PRAVDA
Design/animation: PET PUNK
www.petpunk.com

“PUFFING AWAY”
Short film

Director: ISAAC KING
Animation: ISAAC KING

"EXIT"
Viral

Director: SATOSHI TOMIOKA
Animation: KANABAN GRAPHICS
www.kanaban.com

BERMUDA SHORTS' SHORTS

"DIRTY MIND GROOVE"
Short film

"MIRROR MASK"
Feature film (excerpt)

"THE C.M.O.N.S."
Broadcast vignettes