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Elliot Lim Re-imagines “The Wire”

Bay Area freelance director, designer, and animator Elliot Lim turns his obsession with HBO’s “The Wire” into a beautifully drafted, animated homage piece that will no doubt garner attention from show runners, title designers and networks worldwide. [Watch]

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Disney XD Character Insanity from 2veinte

Creative director Pablo Gostanian and the crew at Buenos Aires design and motion studio 2veinte unleash their talents for extreme characters and colors in these 31 short blasts of holiday fun for Disney XD. [Watch]

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UNESCO: Global Citizenship Education

Director Matt Smithson and his Man vs Magnet mini-crew help UNESCO deliver an important message about the agency’s global education goals with this engaging motion work accented by a lovely muted palette and clever transitions. [Watch]

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Mill+: Google Play “The Beatles”

Hey, no pressure – it’s just the entire Beatles’ catalog finally available online for the first time. LA creative director Clarice Chin and the Mill+ team handles design, animation and editorial in this vivid flurry of updated iconography for BBH and Google Play. [Watch]

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Best of Stash 2015: Ben West “Fugu & Tako”

In March 2015, Framestore LA creative director Ben West released his phenomenal buddy-film sushi comedy “FUGU & TAKO” exploring the perils and unexpected perks of eating live puffer fish. The film and perfectly realized VFX were created while West was a director and VFX super at Robot in Sydney. [Watch]

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Best of Stash 2015: Honda “Paper”

Take a peek at four months of intensely detailed work by Oscar-nominated stop-motion star PES and his team of animators and illustrators as they recreate the evolution of Honda products with thousands of hand-rendered drawings on real live paper with pre-vis and VFX/finishing by a52. [Watch]

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