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Best of Stash 2025: Characters!

2025 was another stellar year for character-driven design and animation projects with an extraordinary range of styles and production techniques all focused on a singular goal: ensuring the narrative engages and resonates. [Watch]

Rascally Raccoons Light Up the Holidays for Ambient Press

To celebrate an eventful year, directing duo Jake Wegesin and Frankie Principe at Ambient Press release a pair of mischievous raccoons into a wintery night for some lighthearted electrical adventures. [Watch]

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Animade’s Cowboy Returns (With a Renegade Rudolph) in “Ready Steady Christmas”

The character animation masters at London’s Animade studio, announce the re-release of their Ready Steady Bang mobile game (coming in early 2026) with this cheeky trailer, which also doubles as their 2025 holiday film. [Watch]

Li Xuan Reveals the Soft Side of AI in Music Video for Roy Wang’s “The Star Shepherd”

A full-on cultural phenomenon in China where it drove over 50 million views in 24 hours, this emotional music video for singer/songwriter and UNICEF ambassador Roy Wang, uses AI to simulate the warmth of stop-motion felt animation. [Watch]

Florian Perron & Polvo Check In for Accor Holiday Film

Working with CD Adrien Pasquet at Paris prodco Polvo, director/illustrator Florian Perron crafts a utopian sensory fantasy “Where Heartfelt Dreams Check In” for French hospitality and hotel brand Accor. [Watch]

Flooul Trips Back in Time for Brazilian Rapper Emicida

Co-directors Pedro Conti and Diego Maia at Flooul Animation in São Paulo, transport viewers back to the tumultuous last years of 20th century Brazil in this dense and dynamic video for rapper/songwriter and cultural icon Emicida. [Watch]