Untold Studios Adds Ben Hampshire as Executive Director in Los Angeles Studio
April 28, 2025
Indie pop band The Extravagants (aka Laura Milligan and Mike King) engage Bay Area animation studio Little Fluffy Clouds to create a mystical “modern-day dreamscape” for their new track “Zero into Nine”. [Watch]
To protest Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, more than 100 Russian artists, animators, musicians, and sound designers are teaming up to release a series of animated short films that repeat the cry “HET BOЙHE” (No War). [Watch]
Master CG stylists Frame in Copenhagen continue their long-term collaboration with Danish lighting design company Louis Poulsen with two new films, part of a series designed to unveil the brand’s 2022 Collection. [Watch]
This impossible-to-ignore new CG character spot by Auckland animation house Cirkus thru agency Milk + Honey United takes a poke at the status quo healthcare system for Australian virtual care provider Rosemary Health. [Watch]
Self-promotional videos can be a slippery slope for motion studios, often sliding into over-earnest or over-confident manifestos but Animagic strikes the right tone with this two-minute look at the importance of stories in human history. [Watch]
Veteran UK director/designer/illustrator/animator Al Boardman mines his challenges with dyslexia and ADHD to craft a very personal and appropriately frenetic short film about the increasing “feelings of constant distraction that we all feel.” [Watch]
The ingredients of five new Louis Vuitton perfumes and their bottle (designed by architect Frank Gehry) take on a dramatic presence in new CG work from Dallas creative shop Already Been Chewed. [Watch]
Designer Miles Hellyer in Sydney: “This brand film was created to explore the beautiful wooden forms crafted by the team at Giants Orchestra. The focus for this piece was simplicity – slowly revealing the objects to bring attention to the details of the form and texture of the Kauri wood.” [Watch]
Serbian director/animator Sava Zivkovic, whose outstanding short film Irradiation is featured in the Best of Stash 2021 collection, teams with concept designer Ben Mauro to bring Mauro’s HUXLEY graphic novel to the screen. [Watch]
The all-Toronto team of director/animator Andrew Embury at Yellow Lab and agency FUSE Create craft an animated and heartfelt hero video for the Pinball Clemons Foundation and how they use donations to help disadvantaged kids. [Watch]
New work from Nexus directors Smith & Foulkes will always brighten your day and so it is with this breezy spot for the UK’s South Western Railway starring commuters Wesley Peck and Sandy C Gull thru agency St. Luke’s. [Watch]
For his latest experiment merging music and visuals, producer/musician/artist Max Cooper teams with Belgian machine learning researcher and digital artist Xander Steenbrugge to turn the words of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein into a spellbinding stream of motion art. [Watch]
Pixel Farm studio in Minneapolis gives a shout out to the magic of multiple twos on Feb 2, 2022 (auspicious in both the Chinese calendar and numerology) with an in-house project built around a digital art gallery. [Watch]
The Mill Design Studio and roster director FILFURY showcase the craftsmanship of Estée Lauder’s heavyweight, soft-close, eyeshadow packaging with “an array of rich, elegant, and textural, graphic design vignettes”. [Watch]
