Twelve years and 120 issues later, the Stash Permanent Collection keeps growing – delivering inspiration and insight to subscribers on six continents with access to over 4,400 outstanding design, animation and VFX projects PLUS behind-the-scenes features and exclusive Stash interviews. [Watch]
And the award for the best animated interpretation of classical music in a short film goes to “Preston,” a visceral mini-masterwork of pugilistic excess set to Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 – created by students at French animation/VFX school ISART Digital as their graduation project. [Watch]
When Donald Trump called Hilary Clinton a “nasty woman,” he unintentionally created a rallying cry for women voters and he also helped reframe how we see women struggling for respect in a world dominated by men. [Watch]
The French word poilus (hairy one) is a term of endearment for a French WWI infantryman and provides the title for this emotional, atmospheric and ambitious graduation film created by seven students at ISART DIGITAL, the Paris-based video game and 3D animation school. [Watch]
New on the Stash radar: Shawn Wang, a CG generalist and motion designer living in Shanghai who completed “Planet Unknown,” his audacious debut 3D short (complete with a sweeping cinematic score from Echoic Audio) during his final year at Communication University of China. [Watch]
Stellar character design and animation in this commercial project assignment produced in 17 weeks by a team of second year animation students at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark for the Danish NGO Verdens Skove (“Forests of the World”). [Watch]
