Wieland_LEGO | STASH MAGAZINE

Making LEGO’s “Adventure in the City”

Snappy and detailed look at the production of “Adventure in the City,” a crazy-ambitious stop motion mini-epic created for LEGO China from hundreds of thousands of real LEGO bricks (and a boy in a snake suit) by Dutch director/writer/animator Rogier Wieland and his intrepid crew thru AKQA Shanghai. [Watch]

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Camp Jefferson: Koodo “Free refills”

If we leave aside the question of whether an “honest and fair” phone company is even a possibility, this new spot from the recent Koodo campaign thru new Toronto agency Camp Jefferson packs lots of bonkers multimedia into 30 seconds. [Watch]

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Get Comfortable with the Vitra Mariposa Family

One definite way to keep the client happy with your spot is make sure their product dominates the screen at all times. Nexus director Jack Cunningham combines that very strategy (even if the couch is CG) with charming and minimalist hand-drawn character animation in this sunny, feel-good spot for Vitra created [Watch]

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Behind the Vision of Dolby Atmos

Post and VFX work from New York’s Artjail offers perfect support to Heat‘s elevated copywriting and the meticulous high-speed footage shot by Park Pictures director Terri Timely in this new :45 for Dolby’s Atmos surround sound technology. [Watch]

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Are You Ready for Transhumanism?

Director Patrick Clair and the Elastic crew team with 72andSunny to compile a convincing news montage stretching 50 years into the future creating an unnerving back story for Activision’s Call of Duty franchise in prep for the release of “Black Ops III” this fall. [Watch]

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Behind the Scenes of Cycle Canada “Hop On”

Discover how Sons and Daughters director/DOP Mark Zibert and Toronto post/animation/design house Alter Ego seamlessly combine an array of VFX techniques to create riveting but rider-less action in this spot for Cycle Canada, the center piece of a national campaign. [Watch]

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