STASH 108: So Much Motion Amazingness!

The Stash Permanent Collection keeps growing with Stash 108 adding another 31 brilliant animation, VFX and motion design projects totaling over 110 minutes of inspiration and insight including our biggest line up of behind-the-scenes yet, plus exclusive interviews with the designer and directors behind the work. [Watch]

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Lobo Crashes the D&AD with “Wish You Were Here”

Lobo breaks out their full range of production and animation skills to yank you back and forth in time to revisit more than 20 of adland’s most-award work for the UK’s prestigious D&AD awards.

“Wish You Were Here? offers an alternate, off-kilter and somewhat belated 50th anniversary tribute to the D&AD, summing up in an unusual way many highlights from over five decades of Pencil winners, it’s also part of a broader Call for Entries campaign aimed at generating awareness and excitement around the 2015 D&AD Professional Awards.

“We didn’t want to simply create a collage of pieces in a retrospective reel fashion. Our goal was to offer a creative reinterpretation of the Awards’ heritage… all the while keeping a coherent visual identity throughout, since D&AD is notorious for its strong brand integrity.” [Watch]

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Psyop for Airbnb “Wall and Chain”

Airbnb and VCCP Berlin leverage Psyop‘s design/animation/narrative skills plus the emotional resonance of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall to tell a daughter’s true story of her father, a West German guard during the cold war. [Watch]

Tinman Creative Studios: “Super Science Friends!”

The pitch: Time-traveling, super-powered scientists (Freud, Einstein, Tesla, Darwin & Tapputi) travel through time fighting Nazis, renegade soviet cosmonauts and assorted scientific nemeses. The talent behind it: Tinman Creative Studios in Toronto. The Kickstarter page.
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Dougal Wilson and MPC Go the Full Monty for John Lewis

UK retailer John Lewis and their agency adam&eve/DDB London team Blink director Dougal Wilson with the CG creature skills of MPC in an attempt to match the phenomenal success their 2013 holiday spot “The Bear & the Hare” (by Blinkink and Hornet directors Elliot Dear and Yves Geleyn). [Watch]

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Andy Hall and Elastic Pull Strings for Riot’s The Harrowing

A grim puppet master and his ill-fated marionettes provide the backstory for League of Legends “Tales of the Black Mist: The Harrowing” created with careful attention to the character work and obvious delight in the macabre by director Andy Hall, CG super Max Ulichney and the Elastic crew in Santa Monica. [Watch]