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Studio AKA: OTTO “Time”

Studio AKA director Marc Craste’s new spot for European online retailer OTTO shakes up this year’s flow of heart-tugging animated holiday spots by combining the mandatory emotional punch with unexpected character design and art direction. [Watch]

Stash 120 Now Online: Watch the Preview!

Twelve years and 120 issues later, the Stash Permanent Collection keeps growing – delivering inspiration and insight to subscribers on six continents with access to over 4,400 outstanding design, animation and VFX projects PLUS behind-the-scenes features and exclusive Stash interviews. [Watch]

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Martin Stirling and MPC: WWF “Tiger in suburbia”

Saving endangered tigers, like all donation-powered ventures, requires a powerful emotional connection between those with the means to donate and those needing help. Mission accomplished in this spot from Partizan director Martin Stirling, the MPC CG feline team, and JWT London for The World Wildlife Fund. [Watch]

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Cyrille Smaha: Chanel “The Camellia”

French motion designer/director Cyrille Smaha and illustrator Roxane Lagache re-team to continue their on-going series of elegant and energized brand films for Chanel with episode #16 focused on Coco Chanel’s obsession with “The Camellia.” Produced thru Paris prodco Falabracks. [Watch]

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Behind the Scenes of Sainsbury’s “The Greatest Gift Is Me”

Oscar-nominated Passion Animation director Sam Fell updates traditional stop-motion characters with 3D-printed expressions for this year’s Sainsbury holiday film thru AMV BBDO complete with the voice talents of James Corden and a track by Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie. [Watch]

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Aardman: Promescent “The O Gap”

So, just how does one promote a spray designed to delay male orgasm during sex? Director Tim Ruffle and the Aardman crew decided the answer lay in wit, wisdom, and cheeky vignettes all rendered in a confectioner’s palette. [Watch]

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