UK claymation renegade Lee Hardcastle, whose stop-motion gifts you’ve witnessed in Rick & Morty episodes and Simpsons couch gags, turns his attention to crafting a five-minute mini-epic for American singer/songwriter Hardy. [Watch]
Kickstart your 2023 with a peek at the trailer for Stash 157, a two-minute wrap-up of our latest issue and a precursor to the avalanche of brilliant motion design, animation, and VFX work coming to the Permanent Collection this year. [Watch]
Fabian Driehorst, founder/producer at Fabian&Fred in Hamburg, Germany: “‘Potato Falls’ is a series of animated clips (a hybrid of 2D and stop motion) promoting the event Kurzfilmtag on December 21 – the shortest day of the year – when people all over Germany host and attend short film screenings. [Watch]
Music videos selected for The Stash Permanent Collection will always value the director’s design/animation/VFX craft over the popularity/sales of the performer, which makes our year-end list refreshingly different than most. [Watch]
Eddy director Stéphane Berla, who dropped the emotional Kwoon “King of Sea” music video earlier this year, is back and madly mixing media in this sweeping fantasy for French musician -M- (aka Matthieu Chedid) and former Bowie bassist Gail Ann Dorsey. [Watch]
UK director/animator Andy Martin – aka Handymartian, aka animation director at Passion Pictures – just sent us this holiday treat starring the planet’s foremost box reviewer (which you may remember from this fine outing). [Watch]
