Camp Mograph 2025 | STASH MAGAZINE

The Beach Is Back: Camp Mograph Returns to Virginia Sept 11–15

Camp Mograph returns to Virginia Beach, September 11–15, 2025, for a five-day creative retreat made for motion designers. Enjoy hands-on workshops, fireside chats, and real connection in a relaxed, unplugged setting built to recharge your creativity and community. [Watch]

BMW Heart of Joy commercial by Untold and Parasol Island | STASH MAGAZINE

Dancing With Myself: Okto the Octopus Oscillates for BMW

In one of the most technically impressive and fun CG creature performances you will see this year, the animation and VFX teams at Untold Studios and Parasol Island deliver a cephalopodic waltz for BMW thru agency Jung von Matt. [Watch]

Sky Sports Lions Tour 2025 spot by Coffee & TV | STASH MAGAZINE

Rugby Roars to Life in Sky Sports Lions Tour 2025 Campaign

Working with Australian artist Konstantina, Sky Creative and the animation crew at Coffee & TV collaborate on a spectacular mix of Indigenous art and 2D and 3D techniques for Sky Sports’ coverage of the Lions Tour 2025 rugby tournament. [Watch]

INSIGHT OUT and TEF Studio Unveil Philippe Starck’s IRIS

Barcelona studio INSIGHT OUT teams with Lisbon-based 3D design and animation specialists TEF Studio to launch the IRIS intraoral dental scanner, designed by pioneering architect and product designer Philippe Starck. [Watch]

Welcome to the Afropunk Post-Apocalypse

Director/CEO Craig Parker and his crew at Motif Studios in Cape Town (whose Gelato Roboto short we featured in Stash 160) just dropped us their latest passion project, a sci-fi feature film proof of concept called NERO. [Watch]

JJ Whitefiled InTransition music Video by Michael Fragstein | STASH MAGAZINE

Michael Fragstein Goes “Off the Grid” in New JJ Whitefield Music Video

Stuttgart-based director and CG artist Michael Fragstein merges the organic and the structural in this hypnotic and tactile CG music video for the track “Off the Grid” from German guitarist/producer JJ Whitefield. [Watch]

Telstra App OClock clips by Laurie Rowan and Nexus | STASH MAGAZINE

Laurie Rowan and Nexus Studios Go Cuckoo for Telstra

Fabulous character work here courtesy of Nexus director Laurie Rowan, who deploys a stop-motion aesthetic in a series of deadpan CG social media clips for Australian teleco Telstra thru Sydney agencies +61 and Bear Meets Eagle On Fire. [Watch]

Psyop’s Singing Cinematic Launches “Anno 117: Pax Romana” for Ubisoft

Psyop directors Todd Mueller and Kylie Matulick ramp up the fun and mischief in this launch film for the latest entry in Ubisoft’s Anno game franchise while blurring the line between “cinematic quality and gameplay integrity”. [Watch]

Antoine Bardou-Jacquet and Mathematic Keep it Fast and Light for Alpine

Working with Partizan director Antoine Bardou-Jacquet, Paris studio Mathematic layer up live-action, VFX, and comic book-inspired animation in this rousing short film marking the 70th anniversary of French automotive brand Alpine. [Watch]

Gabriele Ricci Opens Digital Design Days Palermo 2025

Later this month (June 27-28), the Digital Design Days conference will venture to Palermo, Sicily, where it will premiere with this main title sequence created by director Gabriele Ricci and a team of Italian motion design artists. [Watch]

Le Cube & Final Frontier Up the Action for Dungeon Fighter Mobile Game Launch

Directors Ralph Karam, HanzoHanzo (Hans-Christoph Schultheiss), and the Le Cube animation crew help Tencent launch the Dungeon Fighter Mobile game with a series of intense trailers including this one highlighting the Asura character. [Watch]

Bang & Olufsen Beoplay H95 Pitch by Reframe Studio | STASH MAGAZINE

Bang & Olufsen Beoplay H95 Pitch Film by Reframe Studio

Blurring the line between pitch assets and finished motion work, art director Rui Figueiredo and the CG team at Reframe Studio in Seoul delivered this fully-realized film for Bang & Olufsen’s Beoplay H95 noise-cancelling headphones. [Watch]

João Vaz Oliveira & César Furtado Open the 2025 Atlas Festival in Lisbon

João Vaz Oliveira, whose Kairos short film we featured in Stash 169, teams with fellow Lisbon motion designer César Furtado to set a tone of thoughtful drama for the the Atlas Animation, Visual Effects & Gaming Festival. [Watch]

One Piece Tribute Risograph Animation by Zack Lydon | STASH MAGAZINE

Watch Zack Lydon’s Risograph-Printed Tribute to “One Piece”

Zack Lydon, the Seattle-based animator/illustrator who brought us this playfully violent Valentines treat, re-teams with the Risograph specialists at Zine Hug for a rampaging tribute to Eiichiro Oda’s manga series One Piece. [Watch]