Oscar-nominated director Henry-Alex Rubin and the Framestore crew reveal mother nature as the mother f#$%er she really is in this mad spot for the brand platform relaunch of Columbia Sportswear thru adam&eveDDB London. [Watch]
Internationally acclaimed creative festival OFFF has launched its first ever Montréal event, LANDING on September 8-9 at Société des arts technologiques (SAT). [Watch]
Looking to capture the “timelessness, modularity, and functionality” inherent in the furniture of Swiss manufacturer USM, the FRAME motion team deliver a sleek and satisfying showcase for the brand’s new Haller Soft Panel options. [Watch]
The design and animation team at Cobb Studio in Seoul, whose branding for TheLIFE2 channel we featured in Stash 170, keep the tone light and accessible in these character-filled insurance spots for South Korean conglomerate Hanwha. [Watch]
If you’re looking to kick back with something light and joyful on this summer Friday, CD Rafał Blecharz and the animation team at Animwood Studio in Kraków, Poland, have you covered with this series of hand-animated GIFs. [Watch]
New York City Ballet announced their production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with this detailed and dramatic trailer “designed to transport, not just represent” from Scottish studio Where Giants Roam. [Watch]
Hungarian director/3D animator János Nyujtó makes his Stash debut with this standout CG concept film for a fictional Nike sneaker he says was “designed purely for artistic expression.” [Watch]
Directors Alexa Sirbu and Lukas Vojir at XK studio in London (whose work we track here), deploy an array of CG techniques to showcase the key natural ingredients found in the L’Oréal Professionnel Metal Detox Collection. [Watch]
A full 36 years after the release of Aardman’s Oscar-winning stop-motion short “Creature Comforts”, the Plasticine pop-vox format continues to inspire with Coinbase commissioning this latest homage thru their in-house agency. [Watch]
MOFA director Yianni Warnock leads an all-Australian production team, including CG/VFX studio Atmos and ARC Edit, in a race across the outback with this ambitious charmer for a new CommBank campaign thru M&C Saatchi. [Watch]
The updated Glyph Matrix micro-LED dot matrix screen on the Nothing Phone (3) (used for notifications, alerts, etc.), receives a cool, clean spotlight in these new product films courtesy of CD Kristian Glenn and the motion team at FutureDeluxe. [Watch]
Morgan Powell, CD and co-founder at Seed Animation, invites you to experience the characters and gritty ambience of the studio’s London neighborhood in his new passion project, an animated mini-memoir called Soho Nights. [Watch]
Starting with a visual by Montreal-based illustrator Justyna Stasik, the design and animation team at BUCK transform a list of Samsung Galaxy smartphone features into “colorful chaos, curious characters, and whimsical surprises.” [Watch]
Designer/printmaker Julia Schimautz at DTAN Studio in Berlin and newly-launched Gaussian Studio (aka Ines Soutschka and Jessica Barraclough) team on this wonderfully tactile lyric video for “Tina”, a track off Pulp’s first album in 24 years. [Watch]