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Kaiserlicht Opens “The Ivory Game”

“The Ivory Game” released worldwide on Netflix in late 2016 exposing the brutal world of underground ivory trafficking. This opening sequence, which embeds salient facts into meticulously rendered 3D, was created by Vienna VFX and motion design studio Kaiserlicht. [Watch]

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Watch Vitaliy Shushko’s “X-Story”

Vitaliy Shushko, a director/animator/artist from Saint Petersburg, Russia leapt onto the Stash radar in Jan. 2015 when he released the teaser for his first film called “X-Story.” [Watch]

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Haein Kim “Forward” (possibly NSFW)

Here’s a little something to wake up your first Wednesday of 2017: a wonderfully NSFW-ish short capturing the tension and miscommunication of many relationships called “Forward.” The film was created by 23 year-old Sydney illustrator and animation student Haein Kim. [Watch]

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Andrei Staruiala “Scottish Sayings”

Having lived in Edinburgh for six years, Romanian-born director/designer Andrei Staruiala set out to capture the wit and peculiar charm of Scottish sayings in a series of 31 animations released as an animated advent calendar during December 2016. [Watch]

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Benjy Brooke Plugs us into “Power Hungry”

Join director, animator, and illustrator Benjy Brooke as he walks us thru his latest labor of love, a vibrant and kinetic animated mini-masterwork called “Power Hungry,” a twisty, future-adventure about a road-tripper whose self-driving electric car runs out of batteries. [Watch]

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Aardman wonders: What if “Santa Forgot”

A powerful concept and frame-perfect execution from director Åsa Lucander and the Aardman crew made this emotional, low-key ad for Alzheimer’s Research UK a stand-out in the crowded 2016 holiday season. [Watch]