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Stash Motion>Profiles Gets Personal With Giant Ant

The third episode in the Stash Motion>Profiles series delivers an insightful dive into the creative process, hiring priorities, and surprising origin story of Vancouver design and animation studio Giant Ant. [Watch]

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Joost Jansen Drops Loose Loops in Kramer “ZIN” Music Video

Brussels-based director/animator Joost Jansen, who says “morphing animations are my blood flow”, casts his alter ego Dreamcat in the lead role of this out-of-control music video for Flemish hip-hop artist Kramer (aka Jeroen Perceval). [Watch]

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Tomorrow Bureau Elevates Adizero Adios Pro 4 for Adidas

Serious footwear for serious runners, the Adidas Adizero Adios Pro 4 receives an innovative visual and audio treatment from London studio Tomorrow Bureau highlighting the technology and tactility of the shoe. [Watch]

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Director Joachim Back and The Vanity Play the “Claw Game”

Toronto VFX and post house The Vanity (whose best work we track here), supplies the visual fun in this spot directed by Oscar-winner Joachim Back thru Partners Film and agency Broken Heart Love Affair for The Rec Room. [Watch]

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Animorsels Halloween Meet Up Haunts Nottingham Oct. 24

Animation and motion folk! Take a break from the keyframes and the join us at Animorsels on Oct. 24 for a spooky evening of animated fun and drinks featuring ghoulish short animations and a talk by Davey “Swatpaz” Ferguson. [Watch]

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Airplan Keeps the Drama High in “Playing to Survive” Titles

Building on the lyrical and emotional power of David Bowie’s “Heroes”, the animation team at Airplan Studio brings period style and plenty of drama to the title sequence for the feature doc Playing to Survive: von Cramm vs Hitler. [Watch]

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JVG Light Up a “Dream Summer” for Meta x The Source x Blenders (Director’s Cut)

Master CG stylist Javier Vallejo at JVG in Madrid conjures 30 seconds of iridescent CG optical art in this collaboration between Meta, hip-hop magazine The Source, and California eyewear brand Blenders. [Watch]

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The Telly Awards Opens for Entries With New and Expanded Categories

Our partners at the Telly Awards honor excellence in video and television across all screens and entries for the 46th season are now open with new and expanded motion categories including Short Films and Realtime Rendering. [Watch]

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Brikk Animation Keeps Emotion Center Stage for Komatsu

Drawing inspiration from the style of Studio Ghibli, Brikk Animation leverages the full range of human emotions to highlight the landmine clearance work done by Japanese manufacturing and tech giant Komatsu in Cambodia. [Watch]

Sport and Play Collide in Nike x LEGO Global Campaign by Colors And The Kids

Berlin studio Colors And The Kids just dropped us their quick and chaotic pop culture mash-up with Nike x LEGO joining forces for a global campaign designed to work on both mobile screens and massive billboards. [Watch]

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Optical Arts Captures the Beauty of Combustion

Captured entirely in camera with no VFX or post production, Optical Arts’ newest in-house visual experiment Ignis considers the beauty of combustion and “the complex relationship humanity has with fire”. [Watch]

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Hiroshi Takagishi Explores Organic Oddities in New Motion Art Installation

Tokyo-based director/designer Hiroshi Takagishi, whose striking Poem short film we published here, expands on his fascination with organic lifeforms in his new CG motion piece created for display at Museum 1 in Busan, South Korea. [Watch]

Franz Impler Keeps it Surreal in “Nothing to Expect”

3D artist and filmmaker Franz Impler, whose bonkers grad film Out Of Bounds we featured in Stash 149, is back with a new short film – complete with his surreal story-telling and signature unpolished CG style. [Watch]

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Waldemar Borth Finds “Random” Humor in the Brand Film

Channeling his many years creating corporate brand films, motion designer/AD Waldemar Borth takes a satirical poke at the tropes of the genre by fusing his design and post experience with an array of AI tools. [Watch]