Head into fall fully inspired with a preview of Stash 161, the latest issue of outstanding motion design, animation, and VFX now streaming as part of the one and only Stash Permanent Collection. [Watch]
While admitting he is still ambivalent about AI, Amsterdam-based director/digital artist Menno Fokma embraced the new technology to jump-start this proof of concept for a short film he describes as “a hyper-real nature simulation.” [Watch]
Designer/art director Martina Stiftinger, whose CG skills we glimpsed here and here, drops two intriguing motion experiments for Google’s Deepmind Visualizing AI project. [Watch]
ECD Loren Judah and the design/animation team at We Are Royale (WAR) in LA stir 3D, cel, 2.5D, and machine learning into a two-minute maelstrom/origin story for the release of Naafiri, the latest League of Legends playable champion. [Watch]
Working with a custom pipeline combining traditional animation with generative AI, ECD Matt Pyke and the crew at Universal Everything brew up a strangely captivating mix of convulsive type and alien architecture for Freefarm. [Watch]
Directing duo Julien Vallée and Eve Duhamel veer from their signature production method of hands-on, in-camera effects to explore AI in After Light, a short film they describe as a “playful twist on dystopia”. [Watch]
