A person relaxes with feet on a desk in a colorful office, surrounded by dartboards and yellow darts hitting the bullseyes—a surreal, whimsical scene inspired by Optimizely "Tales of Mark Eting" brand films by Giant Ant. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

Giant Ant Tells the “Tales of Mark Eting” for Optimizely

Posted on June 23, 2026

Discovering new animated work from Vancouver story tellers Giant Ant is always a happy occasion, and this hero compilation of four mini-brand films for AI digital experience platform Optimizely, is no exception. [Watch]

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A stylized illustration of a person standing up and drawing with a pen on a tablet, with colorful geometric shapes emerging from the pen’s tip toward a cylindrical object on the right, against a white background. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

Standing Up to Creative Theft With We are Better Than This

Posted on June 23, 2026

London-based animation director Joseph Clark and his Oh Studio crew help rally resistance to the data-thieves of Big Tech in this awareness campaign for We Are Better Than This. [Watch]

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A blue whale swims through a surreal sky in Chen Wu’s short film "Leave The Island," surrounded by cloud-like shapes and glowing suspended droplets, all in soft blue and white tones. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

Watch Chen Wu’s Beautiful Short Film “Leave The Island”

Posted on June 22, 2026

London-based illustrator and animation director Chen Wu just sent his new short film “Leave The Island”, a quietly beautiful tale about “departure, transformation, and the quiet traces that memory leaves behind.” [Watch]

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Collage of four images showing a modern interior design concept with light wood furniture and colorful Kvadrat Waves System partition walls in blue, green, and brown tones, viewed from different angles and perspectives. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

Frame Draws the Curtain on Kvadrat’s Waves System

Posted on June 21, 2026

Following their recent film for HAY, the CG motion crew at Frame are back with another beautiful interior design product film, this time for Kvadrat Acoustics and Fosters + Partners Industrial Design. [Watch]

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A stylized image of a bird flying with wings outstretched, set against an abstract blue and pink background with curved, glowing orange lines, created for the Brume & Gunsmoke Open One Health Summit 2026 for the French Government. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

Brume & Gunsmoke Open One Health Summit 2026 With Poetic Manifesto

Posted on June 21, 2026

Co-founders Benoit Drigny and Valentin Nouvel at motion studio brume, whose gorgeous TED-Ed fable we featured on the cover of Stash 154, opened the 2026 One Health Summit in Lyon with another lyrical, illustration-based sequence. [Watch]

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A collage of four surreal, colorful illustrations inspired by Directing Duo Turbo Celebrate Spanish Design With La Llama Short Film: abstract figures with eyes and hands, a distorted staircase scene, a whimsical building, and a vivid close-up eye. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

Turbo Celebrate the Universe of Spanish Design With “La Llama” Short Film

Posted on June 19, 2026

Wrangling the talents and styles of a small army of artists and animators, Spanish directing duo Turbo (aka Pau López & Gerardo del Hierro) conjure a propulsive and fully-surreal voyage through the world of Spanish design. [Watch]

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