Rocketpanda Brand Film for Mectron | STASH MAGAZINE

Rocketpanda Eases Dental Distress With Dino Comedy

Using 2D animated frames to guide the motion of their 3D characters, the Rocketpanda crew in Verona, Italy, make a light-hearted but fully convincing case to no longer fear the dentist for dental device brand Mectron. [Watch]

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Floating Point Art Release “Origin” Short Film

Director Jie Liou and the team at Floating Point Art in Taipei, Taiwan, just landed on the Stash radar with the release of the studio’s first short film, a precise and expansive CG ode to convergence called Origin. [Watch]

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Pencil TV See the Light in New Music Video for Bas “Decent (feat. Amaarae)”

Paris animation/design house Pencil TV, director Danae Gosset, and co-director HouHou drop a lovely merger of metaphors and mixed media in this music video for Sudanese-American rapper Bas. [Watch]

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Cub Studio Go All-Pro for the National Football League Players Association

Expanding on their infatuation with American Football, Brighton animation innovators Cub Studio spin up a series of hand-painted 3D assets showcasing the 30 players selected to this year’s NFL All-Pro Team. [Watch]

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Imaginary Forces Forge “Masters of the Air” Main Titles

Following on their series titles for Band of Brothers and The Pacific, Imaginary Forces take to the sky for an epic two-and-a-half-minute sequence of cinematic drama and WWII airborne heroics for Apple TV+. [Watch]

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VCRWORKS Riffs on Retro Animation Styles for Brawl Stars

Director Jonghwan Kim and the team at VCRWORKS in Seoul up the interest level of their latest Brawl Stars trailer with sly but not subtle references to multiple retro 2D animation styles including Powerpuff Girls, Looney Toons, and golden era Disney. [Watch]

Ordinary Folk and Ambrose Yu Instrumental Visual Poem | STASH MAGAZINE

Exploring the Dance of Sound and Motion

CD Jorge Canedo Estrada and designer Avikali Lomavatu at Ordinary Folk in Vancouver team with composer Ambrose Yu for an experimental personal project they call “Instrumental Visual Poem” where the music drives the design and animation. [Watch]

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Stash 163 Delivers Fresh Inspiration for the New Year

Kick-start all your creative bits with Stash 163, the latest feast of curated inspiration to hit the Stash Permanent Collection, the planet’s only streaming platform dedicated to exceptional motion design, animation, and VFX. [Watch]

Death Stranding and Anicorn Watch brand film by Morning Giants | STASH MAGAZINE

Morning Giants Make the Case for Death Stranding and Anicorn Watch Collaboration

Hong Kong animation studio Morning Giants punches up the release of the limited edition Reverse Trike Time and case set created by specialty watchmaker Anicorn and inspired by Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding game. [Watch]

John Likens Method Asgards Wrath 2 for Meta | STASH MAGAZINE

Method Studios Bring to Life the Epic Worlds of Asgard’s Wrath 2

Meta introduced its VR game Asgard’s Wrath 2 with a rampaging animated campaign including this visceral trailer from director John Likens who teamed with VFX super Ivan Guerrero and the post team at Method Studios. [Watch]

SkinCeuticals scientific skincare excellence brand film by MediaWork | STASH MAGAZINE

Media.Work Merges Beauty and Science for SkinCeuticals

Creative director Igor Sordokhonov and the Media.Work CG motion crew transform the line between beauty and evidence-based science into a riveting sequence of facts and metaphors in this new film for US skincare brand SkinCeuticals. [Watch]

ManvsMachine and Nanoscribe Sculpt Micro Miracles for Samsung | STASH MAGAZINE

ManvsMachine and Nanoscribe Sculpt Micro Miracles for Samsung

ManvsMachine laid aside their usual digital toolkit for this celebration of Samsung’s semiconductor prowess, developing a fully in-camera process using a scanning electron microscope to film nanoscopic 3D-printed models. [Watch]

Mercedes x League of Legends The Hunt For Glory The Mill | STASH MAGAZINE

The Mill+ Goes Over the Top for Mercedes x League of Legends in The Hunt For Glory

Mill+ director Tim Fox and The Mill post teams in three countries pull together for an adventure in design maximalism for this cross up of Mercedes-Benz and the 2023 League of Legends World championships held in Seoul. [Watch]

Clim Studio Builds Out Worlds of Luxury for Mr. Porter

Mr. Porter, the men’s online luxury lifestyle retailer, rolled through this past holiday season anchored by these three social media films designed and built by the team at Clim Studio in Barcelona. [Watch]

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