Three cartoonish, caricatured men from the French directing collective Meat Dept. stand side by side: one in a green MD cap and orange hoodie, one bearded in blue with shorts, and a third with a receding hairline and beige shirt, waving. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

French Directing Collective Meat Dept. Joins Psyop Roster

From the release: Psyop welcomes French directing collective Meat Dept., bringing their award-winning visual language and distinct, hyper-tactile aesthetic into Psyop’s expanding global ecosystem of talent. [Watch]

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Bella Signs Directors Ambient Press for US Representation

From the release: Managing Partner David Perry and his colleagues from commercial production and post company Bella are proud to announce the addition of Ambient Press to their directorial roster. [Watch]

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Laurie Rowan and Nexus Studios Go Cuckoo for Telstra

Fabulous character work here courtesy of Nexus director Laurie Rowan, who deploys a stop-motion aesthetic in a series of deadpan CG social media clips for Australian telco Telstra thru Sydney agencies +61 and Bear Meets Eagle On Fire. [Watch]

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Preview All the Motion Projects Selected for Stash 171

The planet’s only streaming platform dedicated to motion design, animation, and VFX (aka the Stash Permanent Collection) keeps growing with the 31 new and outstanding video projects included in Stash 171. [Watch]

John Likens and Method Studios Destroy “Your Friends & Neighbors” for Apple TV+

Teaming up with showrunner Jonathan Tropper for a third series (after Warrior in 2019 and See in 2021), director John Likens and Method Studios set about shattering Jon Hamm’s world in the titles for Your Friends & Neighbors on Apple TV+. [Watch]

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Zoic Taps Nicole Fina as Senior EP and Aladino Debert as ECD

From the release: Zoic Studios, the legendary visual effects studio, has announced Nicole Fina has joined the company as Senior Executive Producer of its Advertising arm. [Watch]