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Dress Code Admits to “Coke Habit”

For their first in-house animated short, New York prodco Dress Code tackles a story of childhood addiction. In production for two years, the film renders a complex issue in a stark palette punctuated by fluid transitions and powerful visual collisions. [Watch]

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Winning Hearts and Homes in the Baltics

UK director Kris Hofmann, who charmed us with her gentle call to save Britain’s hedgehogs, is back with another warm and tactile multi-media stop-motion project. [Watch]

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Short and sweet: Léa Cousty “Sur Ecoute”

Strong character work, wonderful art direction and a brief lesson in listening from Léa Cousty and her short film “Sur Ecoute,” created during her fourth year studying animation at Supinfocom Valenciennes. [Watch]

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Cooking up the Geffen Towers in Tel Aviv

Yambo Studio in Tel Aviv nudges the architectural visualization industry out of its comfort zone (of pristinely rendered but often sterile imagery) with this playful retail spot for a residential tower in their hometown. [Watch]

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Psyop Short Film “Sisters”

David Chontos, a director and the head of CG at PSYOP LA, describes his latest short film as “part exercise of passion and part love letter – ‘Sisters’ is a fragment of some lost, tragic opera.” [Watch]

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W+K SP: New Visual Identity

Watch how the Sao Paulo office of Wieden+Kennedy created their striking new visual identity based on a geometric pattern found right under their feet – on the city’s sidewalks. [Watch]

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Ernest Desumbila: Snails & Botnek “Waffle House”

In 2015, Barcelona director Ernest Desumbila burst onto the Stash radar showcasing his graphic design roots in a meticulous jaw-dropper for Adidas soccer boots called “There Will be Haters.” [Watch]

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Joseph Kahn: Imagine Dragons “Thunder”

US VFX shop Ingenuity Studios bring the supporting animation, CG, and compositing to Joseph Kahn’s stylish rush of contortionist aliens and replicant Imagine Dragons in “Thunder.” [Watch]

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This is What Heat Does to Us – and the Economy

The idea that rising temperatures are bad for business as well as the planet may prove to be one of the most powerful factors revealed by research into climate change – as it directly threatens the financial health of corporations and governments. [Watch]

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Behind the Scenes on CJ Cook’s “Totems”

Los Angeles freelance art director and designer CJ Cook reveals the design and motion process behind “Totems,” his personal experiment with “colors, camera moves, and different kinds of animation.” [Watch]

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Patrick Clair vs “Iron Fist”

Hot on the heels of his nightmarish opening for Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” on Starz, Patrick Clair kicks open the doors on Marvel’s “Iron Fist” for Netlflix with this energized and inky mocap spectacle. [Watch]

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Mathieu Libman “Pinky Toe”

Jumping confidently between animation techniques including stop-motion, UPA-influenced 2D, and golden age black and white, 2nd year CalArts student Mathieu Libman ruminates on life, love, and small blessings in disguise with “Pinky Toe.” [Watch]

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Making of Monster “Telepathy”

You may be surprised to discover just how McGarryBowen London went about putting the monster back in Monster.com for this massive new multi-national campaign. [Watch]

Coming Soon: Kibwe Tavares “Robot & Scarecrow”

If you caught Kibwe Tavares’ short film “Jonah”, you know his talent for story craft enhanced with magic realism VFX work is second to none. [Watch]

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