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In the Loop: Animwood’s Simple, Celebratory GIFs

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]

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Shaking Up Shakespeare for New York City Ballet

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]

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János Nyujtó Dreams Up Sneaker Art Simulations

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]

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XK studio Sculpts the Hyperreal for L’Oréal

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]

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Creature Comforts Meets Crypto: Aardman Explores “Human Nature” for Coinbase

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]

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Yianni Warnock & Atmos Chase Dreams for CommBank

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]

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FutureDeluxe Unlocks the Glyph Matrix for Nothing Phone (3)

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]

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Morgan Powell Captures “Soho Nights” in New Short Film

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]

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BUCK and Samsung Urge iPhone Users to “Try Galaxy”

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]

Julia Schimautz Keeps it Lyrical for Pulp’s “Tina” Music Video

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]

Half Rez Hits Chicago Sept 12th Celebrating Motion Design and Community

Half Rez is one of the biggest meetups of the year for motion designers, animators, producers, students, and studios across Chicago and the Midwest. Over 400 people come together for a full day and night of learning, networking, and celebration. [Watch]

Job, Joris & Marieke Hit The World’s Climate “Quota”

In their latest short film, Oscar-nominated animation studio Job, Joris & Marieke reveal both their passion for tackling the climate crisis and their talent for delivering an important message with style and wit. [Watch]

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Nadia Tzuo & Elastic Capture the Journey of Fiji Water

Elastic CD Nadia Tzuo, who took home a 2024 Emmy Award for her Shōgun TV series titles (featured in Stash 167), turns her many design and motion talents to advertising in this dramatic and richly detailed work for Fiji Water. [Watch]

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Fern Orchestrates Abstraction into Warmth and Clarity

Director James Mabery and the Fern animation team in Atlanta elevate the craft of the explainer video into a softly hypnotic geometric narrative “showcasing the speed and intelligence of AI” for an unnamed SAAS client. [Watch]