Lobster and Nemo Take to the Mountains for Ikon Pass
March 30, 2023
Comic, tragic, or satirical, characters who trigger a meaningful emotional response will always provide the single most reliable way to ensure your narrative, commissioned or personal, resonates with an audience. [Watch]
We don’t know of any other best-of-year lists that recognize explainer videos but Stash has a definite soft spot for designers and animators with the skillset and patience required to distill complex ideas into engaging content. [Watch]
Untethered from client briefs and budgets, short films provide a welcome refuge for self-expression and bold experimentation with 2022 delivering an extraordinary variety of fresh work from both students and pros. [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]
The obvious vitality and sheer variety apparent in these projects tell us one thing: 2022 was an exceptional year for designers charged with setting the tone for visual programming in television, film, and games. [Watch]
Following on their epic 2022 Easter short film, director Damian Misiura and crew at Platige Image in Warsaw return to space (and the Unreal Engine pipeline) for this feel-good Christmas adventure. [Watch]
As audiences have slipped away from traditional TV viewing, most marketers have embraced the flexibility of brand films (produced primarily for online, social, and point-of-sale viewing) as their promotional weapon of choice. [Watch]
The genre of motion design we call 3D Style (a type of CG magic realism) continues to grow exponentially, but the most exciting work still emerges from a fluid regimen of rigorous R&D, surgical curation, and emotional impact. [Watch]
Trunk director Rok Predin walks Stash fans thru the complexities – both technical and creative – of animating the rerelease music video for “Here, There and Everywhere” from The Beatles’ landmark 1966 album Revolver. [Watch]
Director Brian O’Donnell at The Mill Design Studio in NY: “‘The Very VERY First Christmas’ is a deep dive into holiday nostalgia – a take on Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer starring a bright-eyed pterodactyl who hasn’t quite learned to fly. [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]
Beer fans who flock to the 120-year-old Guinness Storehouse building in Dublin are now treated to a thoroughly modern art installation courtesy of director/CG artist Shane Griffin and local prodcos Archetype and Algorithm. [Watch]
Back with their third holiday film for Christian Louboutin’s luxury label, CD Chris Joyce and the Velvet Badger motion design team in London transform a classic fairground into a shiny and enchanting spectacle. [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]
