Apple’s latest volley against the online surveillance economy is a gently comic nod to Hitchcock and Orwell courtesy of Smuggler director Ivan Zacharias with avaricious metalic avians via VFX shops Legacy Effects and House of Parliament. [Watch]
How do you keep a fact-filled product film visually and emotionally engaging for three minutes? Director Thomas Traum and his team at TRAUM INC deliver the answer in this smooth and nimble explainer for the re-engineered Beats Pill Bluetooth speaker. [Watch]
The planet’s only streaming platform dedicated to motion design, animation, and VFX – aka the Stash Permanent Collection – keeps growing with the addition of issue 166, packing in another two full hours of inspiration and insight. [Watch]
Futhark Studios, who hit the Stash radar with this CG product film earlier this year, reveals the thinking and process behind the studio’s first passion project, a visceral ode to street racing inspired by memories of a certain 2005 game trailer. [Watch]
Expanding on their 2023 motion experiment After Light, directors Julien Vallée and Eve Duhamel weave together live-action, CG, and a variety of AI tools for The Pulse Within, their short film which premiered at the Tribeca Festival. [Watch]
Poultry-inspired choreography provides the driving force in this wonderfully bizarre KFC spot from Business Club director Vedran Rupic (thru Mother London with VFX and post from Black Kite) asking citizens of the UK to Believe in Chicken. [Watch]
