Inspired by Op Art, Polagone is a Visual Playground for Designers & Animators
February 27, 2026
The Line, who’s many animation talents we recently featured on the cover of Stash 174 and in the Stash Annual, re-teams with Jamie Hewlett and the Gorillaz gang for eight-minutes of good vibes inspired by vintage 2D animation. [Watch]
Veteran 3D motion artist Hong Seong-hyun (aka UNIQUEMO) takes time away from client work to craft a delightful homage to the classic (and very collectable) JVC 3100R, a compact TV and radio capsule from 1978. [Watch]
Applying her unmistakable combination of vibrancy and texture, London-based illustrator/animation director Yukai Du elevates what could have been a dry and academic branding film for the UCLA College of Social Sciences. [Watch]
Oscar and BAFTA-winning director Peter Baynton leads a hefty 2D and 3D animation crew at Not To Scale into his second grand adventure in adam&eve\TBWA’s long-running Famous Five series for Britain’s Great Western Railway. [Watch]
In the first of a two-part article, creative industry audio veteran Jochen Mader at ZENTHING in Munich gives Stash fans valuable insights into the state of motion design’s most crucial creative partner: sound design. [Watch]
Director Giovanni Grauso and the CG crew at Taxfreefilm in Parma team with Italian animation studio Primal Shape on this gently philosophical and very tactile film for haircare and skincare brand Davines. [Watch]
Director/designer Fabian Aerts, whose CG talents we track here, weaves AI into his 3D pipeline for this latest personal short film, a process he says “allowed the project to evolve beyond predetermined trajectories.” [Watch]
One refreshing result of the rise of AI in production is the push back. Specifically, returning to “craft” or in the case of these fab spots from Uncommon Creative Studio and directing duo Bleu Desert, capturing all the magic in-camera. [Watch]
Working with London animation director/illustrator Natasza Cetner, the crew at BluBlu Studio in Warsaw craft a stripped-down, hand-drawn treatment for WWF powered by a poem written and performed by WWF CEO Carter Roberts. [Watch]
London-based writer/director Richard Paris Wilson teams with animation director Ewa Smyk to assemble thousands of hand-painted frames into an emotional and true tale of a young girl, a rare disease, and plenty of hope. [Watch]
In the second half of her Stash guest editorial, Bianca Redgrave, managing director at Studio Private in London, looks at how AI should be embedded into production pipelines and hiring to future-proof post studios. [Watch]
Artashes Stamboltsyan, lead CD/motion artist at Triada Studio, just dropped us his enigmatic titles (and BTS) for a spec sci-fi series “where memory and consciousness are extracted and preserved like radioactive artifacts.” [Watch]
Proving that careful lighting and motion choices can transform even the most utilitarian of devices into objects of wonder and intrigue, director/3D artist Terence Ginja-Martinho gives a lowly racing kart radiator the full 3D beauty treatment. [Watch]
Director and visual artist Alessandro Bavari, whose unhinged Cold Burning Show short graced the cover of Stash 168, cranks the character chaos up a few more notches in his latest AI experiment called RAW #03. [Watch]
