Nexus directors Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes first appeared in Stash in issue 2, way back in October 2004. Since then we’ve inducted 20 projects by the London duo into the Stash Permanent Collection and placed four of those on the cover. [Watch]
The newly unified Paris studios of MPC Advertising and Mikros handle the feathery creature craft in this cheeky and hard-to-ignore full-CG spot directed by FutureDeluxe for UK mortgage brokers L&C thru agency Fold7. [Watch]
London illustrator/animator Rosanna Wan supplies the disarmingly innocent visual style in this film for The School of Life’s alternative to superficial dating apps. [Watch]
Director Spike Jonze, who won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for “Her” in 2014, seems the obvious choice for this four-minute dazzler featuring another female-voiced AI who helps cheer up FKA Twigs. [Watch]
Japanese artist/director ShiShi Yamazaki brings her hand-painted rotoscope magic to a dynamic new spot for Chanel’s Gabrielle bag starring British model/actress/phenom Cara Delevingne. [Watch]
Barcelona design and motion studio Makmac animate a striking and sculptural CG promo for the fifth edition of the Lapsus Festival, an avant-garde electronic music event taking place in their hometown in early April. [Watch]
