The Stash Permanent Collection – aka the only streaming platform dedicated to design, animation, and VFX – just published issue 172. Preview the full two hours of motion brilliance with this two-minute trailer. [Watch]
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Working with UK illustrator/art director Matt Blease, the animation team at Niceshit Studio in Barcelona combines “classic comedy, bold scripts, and expressive characters” into a series of clean and quirky spots for IBM’s AI products. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, Character Animation, Featured, Illustration · Tags Carmen Angelillo, Facundo Capece, Guido Lambertini, IBM Blue Studio, Lola Ritcher, ogilvy, Rodier Kidmann
After a stellar run on the festival circuit, Colombian director David Carrizales dropped us his first animated short film, a lighthearted ode to human commonality built on a wordless soundtrack of bodily-generated noises. [Watch]
Working direct with Paris fragrance/fashion house Mugler, Les Monstres directors Nicolas Mongin and Helene Orjebin translate illustrations by Ugo Bienvenu into an animated manifesto for the brand’s new cologne collection. [Watch]
Inspired by Blade Runner, WIZZ directing duo Milli (aka Vic Chhun and Leyla Kaddoura) animate a stark and sweaty android fantasy for Paris fashion brand LGN Louis-Gabriel Nouchi and their SS26 collection. [Watch]
Director/animator Simona Mehandzhieva, who’s off-kilter brand of narrative charm we previously featured here, is back with a labor of love about love. And loss. And not settling for less than you deserve. [Watch]