Papaya Films Sign Director and Photographer Lidia Estepa for UK Representation
February 6, 2026
Working thru Paris prodco Loveboat, UNVEIL studio merges live action, AI, and post into a metaphorical world-building exercise in this global campaign film for French sports equipment brand Salomon thru BBDO Paris. [Watch]
Iconoclast director Yoann Lemoine and Swiss CG house Le Truc (whose Devialet film we featured in the Stash Annual 2025), conjure a full sensory overload in this Flowerbomb campaign film for Dutch luxury fashion house Viktor & Rolf. [Watch]
Fresh off a successful festival run, Paris-based designer/director Almir Nago just dropped us his new passion project, an artful, fractured, and often surreal short film produced in collaboration with the team at Mathematic Studio. [Watch]
Studio Birthplace directors Jorik Dozy and Sil van der Woerd continue their pro-environment motion mission, re-teaming with Greenpeace for this dramatic take on the irony of Italian energy giant Eni sponsoring the 2026 Winter Olympics. [Watch]
Luma AI’s Dream Brief competition taps into the primal frustration you feel when your best ideas don’t sell while positioning their generative text-to-video platform as your friend, instead of the software that could replace you. [Watch]
Anecdote Studio (aka directing duo Vincent Raineri & Sebastien Camden) join fellow Montreal creatives at prodco L’ÉLOI for a mixed-media experiment designed to “capture the anxiety sparked by today’s relentless hyperconnectivity”. [Watch]
The design and motion crew at Art&Graft in London teams with brand strategy agency Fazer to launch the personal point-to-point urban transit system Line Mobility, developing and implementing the complete brand experience. [Watch]
Our partners at the Telly Awards honor excellence in video and television across all screens, with over 99 animation categories covering advertising, branding, television, and film, including 3D and motion design. [Watch]
Men’s grooming brand MANSCAPED makes their Super Bowl debut in style with a musical cast of hairballs lamenting untimely separation from their males – all courtesy of MJZ directors The Perlorian Brothers and agency Quality Meats. [Watch]
CD Igor Sordokhonov and the Media.Work team, whose Magnetic Currents CG experiment we featured in the Stash Annual 2025 book, apply their elite CG motion and design talents to L’Oreal’s new Revitalift anti-aging serum. [Watch]
If you’re feeling conflicted about AI in commercial production, have a look at this mini-doc/BTS from director Brent Bonacorso. It details how generative tools factored into the pipeline of his recent Cathay Pacific “Big & Small” spot. [Watch]
In their latest personal work, CD/co-founders Romina Giarrizzo and Marco Salemi at Hup.Studio in Milan invite the audience to reconsider perception while “revealing the subtle beauty that emerges through transformation.” [Watch]
CD Juanma Mota and the motion design crew at Pleid St. in Madrid elevate the art and science behind very comfortable shoes with this elegant explainer for US brand OOFOS and their mission to build Active Recovery footwear. [Watch]
The main-on-end credits for the second season of the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and The Olympians finds Imaginary Forces CDs Karin Fong and Tosh Kodama evolving season one’s Art Deco theme into a richly textured maritime mosaic. [Watch]
