The Heist It Was There All Along short film | STASH MAGAZINE

The Heist Discover the Big Idea “Was There All Along”

Vancouver prodco The Heist and Montreal director/designers Sebastien Camden and Vincent Raineri unite their many talents for a manic multi-technique ode to commercial creativity and the pressurized quest for the big idea. [Watch]

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An Ape in a Track Suit Walks Into a Bar…

Guido Ekker, aka VFX supervisor and director at The Panics in Amsterdam, unveils Adidas’ new ALTS web3 loyalty concept, mixing motion-capture, hand-held cameras, and a cyber-punk vibe into a pair of gritty, neon-infused films. [Watch]

Universal Everything Freefarm Lifecycles AI Music Video | STASH MAGAZINE

Universal Everything Merges AI and Typography for Freefarm “Lifecycles” Music Video

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]

DJ Piper RIP TXL Music Video by Raman Djafari Blinkink | STASH MAGAZINE

Raman Djafari Mines Powerful Memories for DJ Piper’s “RIP TXL” Music Video

Blinkink director Raman Djafari unpacks childhood memories of growing up in the Spandau borough of Berlin as the foundation for this dramatic and dreamy solo CG music video for DJ Piper who hails from the same part of the German capital. [Watch]

Woodbrass Brand Film by Blackmeal | STASH MAGAZINE

Blackmeal Showcases the Joy of Music in Brand Film for Woodbrass (Director’s cut)

CD Vincent Ben Abdellah and the design/animation team at Blackmeal in Nantes, France, wrangle a parade of vibrant characters and styles in this brand film for French online music equipment retailer Woodbrass. [Watch]

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The Mundane Becomes Mesmerizing in Jovan Todorović’s “SCHWER” Music Video for Paul Kalkbrenner

Interesting first work out of Mother Berlin finds BWGTBLD director Jovan Todorović building an extraordinary world from mundane moments and volumetrically scanned humans for German techno icon Paul Kalkbrenner. [Watch]