Working through Japanese collective CALF, animation director Takashi Ohashi delivers a masterclass in character and style with this music video for Hatsuboshi Gakuen, the fictional band from the mobile game Gakuen Idolmaster. [Watch]
Wonderfully relatable characters bound together by interwoven narratives, gentle humor, and a sense of poetry make the student short film Jour de Vent (Windy Day) a nice break from our usual diet of brand-driven work. [Watch]
Makemake CD Duncan Elms, whose work we track here, leads the studio’s 3D team into a mist-shrouded world of hidden giants with these titles for Steven Spielberg’s nature doc series The Dinosaurs on Netflix. [Watch]
Grab a peek at the 31 new projects selected for Stash 176, an inspired trove of motion and the latest issue of the Stash Permanent Collection, aka the planet’s only streaming platform dedicated to design and animation. [Watch]
In their latest work for Swedish game developer Mojang, the team at Brikk in Stockholm (whose many styles of animation we track here) unleash a blast of fun character work in this trailer for Minecraft LIVE 2026. [Watch]
Émilie Tronche, the French director/screenwriter whose breakout animated series Samuel now resides on Netflix, applies the same easy charm and childlike style to this video for French-Korean singer-songwriter Miki. [Watch]
