Fast, fun and blindingly diverse, Stash 59 is a jolting thrill ride of motion design including the massive Star Wars: Old Republic cinematic from Blur Studios for Lucas Arts plus 16 minutes of penetrating Behind the Scenes features and four fresh bonus MP3 tracks from The Buddy System.

The inspiration starts, appropriately enough, with light bulbs – beautifully rendered and integrated into black and white footage for Audi from The Mill. Then the pace quickens with a spectacular all-3D Nike spec spot from Barcelona’s Big Lazy Robot for director Carl Erik Rinsch and extreme roller skating babies for Evian from MPC. The Mill also takes us into the incredibly detailed but bittersweet micro world of a lovable caterpillar for AMF, Stardust paints a duo of complex watercolors for Shell and MK12 re-teams with director Marc Forster for his personal and trippy take on life and flying for Swiss Airlines.

The broadcast and title design section on 59 launches with the star-studded “House of Imagination”, a grandly scaled Syfy branding film from 4 Creative with VFX by MPC, before plowing into the series of six ambitious new MTV IDs from Universal Everything with the directing talents of Tronic, Realise, Maxim Zhestkov and Zeitguised. Buenos Aires studio Punga assmble a dark and riveting promo for FOX Crime Italy, Sydney’s Resolution Design crank it to 11 with four spots for the MTV Australia Awards, Valins&Co. in Manhattan bring out the best of Britain with a sharp and witty promo for BBC America, PepperMelon reveal their use of mind-altering substances with three psycotropic adventures for SpongeBob, and New York’s Favorite Color team with Parson’s graduate Varathit Uthaisri to light up the 2009 Promax/BDA Awards.

From there 59 takes off in a dozen directions, none of them predictable: first, the impossibly complex new video for Japanese band Sour from Magico and Masayoshi Nakamura and their 80+ cast members; Eb Hu and Moving Image Exchange wrap the Zero 7 video “Everything Up” with a tilted, sinister energy; and London’s Mainframe induce cringes and shivers all round with their ravenous-pig-infested viral for James Palumbo’s novel Tomas.

Toronto animation studio Alchemy and director/illustrator Chris Hutsul lighten the mood with an online charmer for Saatchi & Saatchi Canada’s new site, LA’s Nylon keep the fun going with a surprisingly whimsical viral for the US military through Heavy.com. Stash newcomers Mesai – out of Seoul, South Korea – introduce themselves with a stunning CG debut called Alarm, London’s Oceanwarmair take their quirky instincts to new extremes for Twisted Tongue’s new video “Got a Really Good Thing”, Belgian studio Volstock Telefunken  extend the weird vibe with their video for Grapes! called “Get Get Get”, before Friends With You and PepperMelon ease us back into more commercial work with a hyper-cute and trippy instore clip for Target. You’ll also find interesting new work from two São Paulo studios: Dinamo Digital for Azul Airlines and Tribbo Post for TIM Mobile.

We wrap Stash 59 with a pair of exceptional short films from opposite ends of the animation spectrum. Machu Picchu Post is a rolicking, chromatic CG flight of fancy from Supinfocom graduates Clément Crocq, Margaux Durand-Rival and Nicolas Novali while Yellow Belly End, directed and animated by Philip Bacon during his tenure at the UK’s National Film and Television School, is a tour de force of quietly paced black comedy.

The BONUS FILMS on 59 are two visually stunning game cinematics from 3D powerhouse Blur Studio in Venice, CA. Both films, “Prototype” and Star Wars: The Old Republic “Deceived,” (on the cover) are examples of just how visceral and compelling digital stories can be.

The BONUS MUSIC on Stash 59 is a tight program of four fabulous tracks from Athens, GA, band The Buddy System.

The BEHIND THE SCENES line-up on 59 offers very cool peeks into the making of Big Lazy Robot’s Nike spec spot, MPC’s evian-drinking roller-babies, The trials and tribulations of The Mill’s AMF caterpillar, Favorite Color’s sleek new open for the Promax/BDA Awards and Supinfocom’s Machu Picchu Post.

AUDI “ECONOMY DRIVE”
TVC :60

Agency: BBH
Director: NE-O
Production: STINK
Animation/VFX: THE MILL
www.the-mill.com

NIKE “EXPLOIT YOURSELF”
TVC :50 (spec)

Director: CARL ERIK RINSCH
Animation: BIG LAZY ROBOT VISUAL EFFECTS
www.biglazyrobot.com

EVIAN “SKATING BABIES”
TVC :60

Agency: BETC EURO RSCG
Director: MICHAEL GRACEY
Production: PARTIZAN MIDI MINUIT
Animation/VFX: MPC
www.moving-picture.com

AMF “THE CATERPILLAR”
TVC :50

Agency: FORSMAN & BODENFORS
Director: FILIP ENGSTRÖM
Production: CAMP DAVID
Animation/VFX: THE MILL
www.the-mill.com

SHELL “PERFORMANCE: V POWER”,
“FUEL ECONOMY”
TVCS :30 x 2

Agency: JWT LONDON
Director: ALAN BIBBY
Production: STARDUST STUDIOS
Animation/VFX: STARDUST STUDIOS
www.stardust.tv

“LX FORTY”
Branded content 2:26

Client: SWISS INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES
Agency: PUBLICIS, ZURICH
Director: MARC FORSTER
Animation/VFX: MK12
www.mk12.com

SYFY “HOUSE OF IMAGINATION”
Branding film 2:00

Agency: 4 CREATIVE
Director: BRETT FORAKER
Production: 4 CREATIVE
Animation/VFX: MPC
www.moving-picture.com

MTV NETWORKS INTERNATIONAL
Broadcast design x 6

Directors: VIVIAN ROSENTHAL, MATT PYKE, HENRIK MAULER, MAXIM ZHESTKOV, NORRA ABDUL RAHIM
Production: UNIVERSAL EVERYTHING
Animation/VFX: TRONIC, UNIVERSAL EVERYTHING, ZEITGUISED, MAXIM ZHESTKOV, REALISE

FOX CRIME ITALY
Broadcast design

Director: TOMI DI
Animation/VFX: PUNGA
www.punga.tv

MTV AUSTRALIA AWARDS 2009
Broadcast design x 4

Agency: MTV AUSTRALIA
Director: RESOLUTION DESIGN
Animation/VFX: RESOLUTION DESIGN
www.resolutiondesign.com.au

BBC VIDEO “DVD OPEN”
DVD promo 1:21

Client: BBC AMERICA
Director: SCOTT VALINS
Animation: VALINS&CO.
www.valinsandco.com

MTV SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
“TRIPPY“, “GURU”, “HYPNOSIS”
Broadcast design x 3

Director: TOMÁS GARCÍA
Animation/VFX: PEPPERMELON
www.peppermelon.tv

2009 PROMAX/BDA AWARDS
Event titles :60

Client: PROMAX BDA
Director: FRANK PICHEL
Animation/VFX: FAVORITE COLOR
www.favoritecolor.tv

SOUR “HIBI NO NEIRO”
Music video 3:51

Record label: ZEALOT CO. LTD, NEUTRAL NINE RECORDS
Directors: HAL KIRKLAND, MAGICO NAKAMURA, MASASHI KAWAMURA, MASAYOSHI NAKAMURA
Animation/VFX: MAGICO NAKAMURA, MASAYOSHI NAKAMURA, MASASHI KAWAMURA & HAL KIRKLAND

ZERO 7 “EVERYTHING UP” (ZIZOU)
JOKER AND GINZ REMIX
Music video 2:30

Agency: MOVING IMAGE EXCHANGE
Director: EB HU
Animation/VFX: MOVING IMAGE EXCHANGE

TOMAS BY JAMES PALUMBO “HANK”
Viral 1:17

Client: MINISTRY OF SOUND / MSHK
Director: MARK WARRINGTON
Animation: MAINFRAME
www.mainframe.co.uk

“PURPOSE”
Branded content 2:20

Agency: SAATCHI & SAATCHI, TORONTO
Director: CHRIS HUTSUL
Production: SOFT CITIZEN
Animation: ALCHEMY
www.helloalchemy.com

“LIFTED“
Viral 1:13

Agency: HEAVY.COM
Directors: BRYAN LEE, JASON COOK
Animation/VFX: NYLON
www.nylon.la

“ALARM“
Short film 8:53

Director: MOO-HYUN JANG
Production: MESAI
Animation: MESAI
www.mesai.co.kr

TWISTED TONGUE
“GOT A REALLY GOOD THING”
Music video 3:35

Record label: ACID JAZZ
Director: OCEANWARMAIR
Animation/VFX: OCEANWARMAIR
www.oceanwarmair.com

GRAPES! “GET GET GET”
Music video 3:42

Director: VOLSTOK TELEFUNKEN
Production: VOLSTOK TELEFUNKEN
Animation/VFX: VOLSTOK TELEFUNKEN, MICHELE DE FEUDIS
www.volstok.com

TARGET “FRIENDS WITH YOU“
TVC :45

Directors: SAMUEL ALBERT BORKSON, ARTURO SANDOVAL III, TOMÁS GARCÍA
Animation: PEPPERMELON
www.peppermelon.tv

AZUL “LANÇAMENTO”
TVC :60

Client: AZUL LINHAS AÉREAS BRASILEIRAS
Agency: DPZ PROPAGANDA
Director: RICARDO CARELLI
Animation/VFX: DÍNAMO DIGITAL
www.dinamodigital.com.br

TIM MOBILE “BOCA LEGENDADO”, “REPRESA”
TVCs :30 x 2

Agency: NEOGAMA BBH PUBLICIDADE LTDA
Directors: FÁBIO SOARES, JOÃO CAETANO FEYER
VFX: TRIBBO POST
www.tribbo.com.br

RED STEEL 2
Game cinematic 1:54

Client: UBISOFT
Director: CHRIS DELAPORTE
Animation/VFX: WIZZ
www.wizz.fr

“INFINITY”
Corporate film 3:54

Client: CITIZEN WATCH CO.
Agency: EAST JAPAN MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Director: KOSUKE OHO
Production: NA-RU CORPORATION
Animation/VFX: WOW INC.
www.w0w.co.jp

“MACHU PICCHU POST”
Student film 5:31

School: SUPINFOCOM, ARLES
Directors: CLÉMENT CROCQ, MARGAUX DURAND-RIVAL, NICOLAS NOVALI
Animation: CLÉMENT CROCQ, MARGAUX DURAND-RIVAL, NICOLAS NOVALI
machupicchupost.free.fr

“YELLOW BELLY END”
Short film 8:47

School: NATIONAL FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL
Director: PHILIP BACON
Animation: PHILIP BACON
www.slinkypics.com

“PROTOTYPE“
Cinematic trailer 3:10

Clients: ACTIVISION/BLIZZARD, RADICAL ENTERTAINMENT
Director: BLUR STUDIO
Animation: BLUR STUDIO
www.blur.com

STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC “DECEIVED”
Cinematic trailer 3:53

Clients: LUCASARTS, BIOWARE
Director: DAVE WILSON
Animation: BLUR STUDIO
www.blur.com