Dan Castro Herman Brown is Feeling Down animated short film | STASH MAGAZINE

“Herman Brown is Feeling Down” by Dan Castro

Royal College of Art grad Dan Castro channels his personal experiences with anxiety and stress into a beguiling animated short film using a combination of digital and traditional ink-on-film techniques. [Watch]

L’Aviatrice ESMA animated short film | STASH MAGAZINE

Dancing in the Sky with “L’Aviatrice”

“L’Aviatrice,” an extraordinary CG film by five animation Master’s students at ESMA in France, takes us above the clouds and into the emotions of pioneering French pilot Jacqueline Auriol who set five world speed records in the 1950s and 1960s. [Watch]

Rob Gillian Hair Today Gone Tomorrow animated short film| STASH MAGAZINE

“Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow” by Rob Gilliam

CalArts animation student Rob Gilliam takes a good-natured snip at the relationship between beards and the fragile male ego in his pointed and perfectly-structured 3rd-year film. [Watch]

“Pura Vida” by Nata Metlukh

Animator/illustrator Nata Metlukh (now based in San Francisco) created her graduation film “Pura Vida” while studying at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn under the mentorship of acclaimed animator Priit Pärn. [Watch]

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Shane Beam Conditioner animated short film | STASH MAGAZINE

“Conditioner” Animated Short by Shane Beam

Fresh off the festival circuit, Shane Beam’s animated short film “Conditioner” provides a wonderfully strange and floaty kind of escape for a summer Friday afternoon. [Watch]

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