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Best of Stash 2025: Characters!

2025 was another stellar year for character-driven design and animation projects with an extraordinary range of styles and production techniques all focused on a singular goal: ensuring the narrative engages and resonates. [Watch]

Rascally Raccoons Light Up the Holidays for Ambient Press

To celebrate an eventful year, directing duo Jake Wegesin and Frankie Principe at Ambient Press release a pair of mischievous raccoons into a wintery night for some lighthearted electrical adventures. [Watch]

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Animade’s Cowboy Returns (With a Renegade Rudolph) in “Ready Steady Christmas”

The character animation masters at London’s Animade studio, announce the re-release of their Ready Steady Bang mobile game (coming in early 2026) with this cheeky trailer, which also doubles as their 2025 holiday film. [Watch]

Florian Perron & Polvo Check In for Accor Holiday Film

Working with CD Adrien Pasquet at Paris prodco Polvo, director/illustrator Florian Perron crafts a utopian sensory fantasy “Where Heartfelt Dreams Check In” for French hospitality and hotel brand Accor. [Watch]

Flooul Trips Back in Time for Brazilian Rapper Emicida

Co-directors Pedro Conti and Diego Maia at Flooul Animation in São Paulo, transport viewers back to the tumultuous last years of 20th century Brazil in this dense and dynamic video for rapper/songwriter and cultural icon Emicida. [Watch]

Political Spin: King+Country Opens “Death by Lightning” With a Sinister Zoetrope

Stash has covered our share of ambitious and intricate zoetrope-inspired films but these opening titles for the Netflix historical drama miniseries Death by Lightning is the first we’ve seen to use the device for an era-appropriate project. [Watch]