Leanne Tarvin Joins RASCAL as New Business EP
May 20, 2025
The hard news about demo reels is very few actually accomplish their goal of triggering emotion in viewers. Over the last 14 years Stash has featured only a handful of reels but we believe this new one from LA studio STATE is worth your time. [Watch]
Steve Viola, SVP of Design at FX Networks: “For the launch of our Sons of Anarchy spin-off, Mayans MC, we created a piece introducing the cultural tones of the series while bringing back the intensity and the rawness of Sons of Anarchy. [Watch]
Mill+ directors Aidan Gibbons and Ergin Kuke help UK luxury performance car maker Bentley celebrate its 100th anniversary with a grand look at the company’s history of “innovation, achievement and craftsmanship.” [Watch]
From Buck: “How can you say no to working with 36 x (2560 x 1800) = 165,888,000 pixels of fun?? Teaming up with our friends at Google, we had a blast wrangling pixels for this installation. [Watch]
SCAD Motion Media student Aishwarya Sadasivan describes her animated allegory “Cayona” as “a personal dedication to the wonderful immigrants who have found their happy kingdom – America.” [Watch]
The crew at Gentleman Scholar pay tribute to the 2018 World Cup with this animated in-house project dedicated to “not just the event itself, but also to the unifying nature of this sport in general.” [Watch]
Vasil Hnatiuk, an American designer/director based in Vietnam, explores his fascination with the potential of synthetic biology in this ambitious scifi-flavored personal project. [Watch]
UK director Oscar Hudson’s quest for completely fresh ways to capture your attention continues with this left field music video called “Holy Ghost” for Scottish trio Young Fathers – shot with an ultra long range military grade thermal surveillance camera. [Watch]
Los Angeles animator Steve Smith extends the vibrant and surreal 3D style he’s used in broadcast work for Adult Swim and MTV into a full three and a half minutes of engaging whimsy for the single “Misheard” by LA trio Moaning. [Watch]
A novel and charming stop-motion project designed to raise awareness of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean – created by Studio Flox in Stuttgart, Germany for Humany Tee Clothing and NGO Jugend Rettet e.V. [Watch]
Following his excellent dissection of the relationship between existentialists Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, director/animator Andrew Khosravani takes on the fraught dynamics of psychoanalytic pioneers Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. [Watch]
Somesuch director Kim Gehrig fuses the talents of French choreographer Olivier Casamayou, Trim editor Fouad Gaber, and a compact Framestore VFX crew into a riveting music promo for R&B legend Chaka Khan guaranteed to jump-start your mood. [Watch]
Inspired by their crushing daily commutes thru Los Angeles (and Elon Musk’s proposed underground Loop), CDs Brett Morris and Stephen Panicara at Ranger & Fox conjure an in-house ode to the city and its tenacious traffic. [Watch]
The Paramount Network (formerly Spike TV) set the tone for the premier of their “Yellowstone” series on June 20 with these atmospheric and angst-filled titles by CD Lisa Bolan and the Elastic crew. [Watch]
