IAMSTATIC Ups Nicole Labbe to Senior Producer
May 21, 2025
IBM’s inaugural Think conference hit Vegas earlier this year complete with this ambitious, flexible, and beautiful branding scheme created by Athletics NYC and foam Studio, the commercial arm of Berlin’s Zeitguised. [Watch]
The maneki-neko, aka the Japanese fortune cat, gets a frenetic overhaul by 26 artists in 26 seconds in this smile-inducing project put together by Moscow animation studio Petrick. [Watch]
In June 2017 Stash published the trailer for “Float,” a brilliant and enigmatic CG fantasy/adventure directed by Kohei Yoshino with music by Haruna Karasuda. Now the duo is back with this fluid and whimsical work for the Japan Media Arts Festival. [Watch]
Animator/programmer Raven Kwok’s talents for generative visuals and processing algorithms prove a perfect compliment for musician/scientist Max Cooper’s track “Rule 110” which attempts “to visualize a Turing-complete machine.” [Watch]
From their base in Vilnius, Lithuania, CG masters Korb continue to create stylish, intriguing, and often witty visuals for an array of international brands, like this latest project highlighting the kinetic talents of Nike’s Zoom KD XI basketball shoe. [Watch]
… Kendrick Lamar & SZA “All The Stars” directed by Dave Meyers and The Little Homies with BUF, the pioneering Paris VFX house with credits on everything from “The Matrix” to “Blade Runner 2049,” handling the digital duties. [Watch]
Megan Palero, a motion designer/animator based in the Philippines, crafts a complex geometric world populated with surreal and gentle characters in this dreamy music video for “Caterpillar Motion” by Philadelphia rapper/producer Sudo Williams. [Watch]
A finalist at the 2018 Student Academy Awards, “EMUNAH” is an intense full-CG film about the dystopian results of creating a supreme artificial intelligence – directed and scored by Sang Hyoun Han (aka DOMCAKE) at SVA. [Watch]
To promote the 2018 Mural Festival in Vancouver, hometown studio Linetest pay tribute to the previous murals of the week-long summer event using “a brick as a focal point to tie together the many different mural styles.” [Watch]
NYC animation director Chris Carboni (who created the fabulous Cruisr “All Over” music video featured in Stash 109), just released this animated short film about a woman struggling with Transient Global Amnesia.
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A mysterious footballer evolves into an urban legend of terrifying skill in this epic/comic film via Black Label director Matthew Vaughn and The Mill’s VFX crew thru Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam for Nike’s PhantomVSN football boots. [Watch]
Royal College of Art grad Dan Castro channels his personal experiences with anxiety and stress into a beguiling animated short film using a combination of digital and traditional ink-on-film techniques. [Watch]
Passion Animation directors Salon Alpin help Greenpeace spotlight the destruction of Indonesian rainforest for the production of palm oil with an emotional 90-second film narrated by Emma Thompson. [Watch]
Picasso Pictures director Frankie Swan animates the complex hidden feelings of a young girl in this spot for Dove and Cartoon Network “helping young girls understand that being themselves feels better than trying to fit in.” [Watch]
