CRCR Rev Up SuperPowers for Valorant Champions 2024

In their latest work for Riot Games’ Valorant franchise, Wizz directing collective CRCR extends their talents for innovative animated action while transforming a dozen esport players into K-pop stars. [Watch]

OPVEE Explainer by Panic Studios | STASH MAGAZINE

Panic Elevates Explainer for Opioid Overdose Treatment

How do you keep a deadly serious medication explainer engaging for a full three minutes? The motion design crew at Panic answered that brief with the rogue choice of brisk collage work injected with punk typography. [Watch]

Virgin Active ad by Spindle director Daniel Liakh | STASH MAGAZINE

Daniel Liakh Saves the World From Fake Wellness

Spindle director Daniel Liakh slams together proof of his belief that “the funniest things co-exist with the most tragic” in this counter-punch to the fakery of the wellness industry for Virgin Active health clubs thru Amsterdam agency We Are Pi. [Watch]

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Stash 167 Delivers Two New Hours of Deep Inspiration

The Stash Permanent Collection, aka the only streaming platform dedicated to motion design, animation, and VFX, – keeps growing with the addition of issue 167, packing in another two full hours of inspiration and insight. [Watch]

GIANTSTEP and Sticky Monster Lab Accessorize With Samsung Friends

In their latest work for Samsung, the GIANTSTEP crew teams with fellow Seoul studio Sticky Monster Lab to build out a joyfully over-the-top world to showcase accessories for a selection of the client’s smart phones and earbuds. [Watch]

VOA Orion Collection sunglasses brand film by Playful | STASH MAGAZINE

Pablo Alfieri Drops Director’s Cut of VOA Orion Collection

Barcelona-based director and CG artist Pablo Alfieri sculpts a hard-core future fashion vibe into this director’s cut of his latest work for VOA Collective’s handcrafted limited-edition Orion Collection eyewear. [Watch]

Bump Festival 2024 Titles by Sehsucht | STASH MAGAZINE

Sehsucht Opens the Bump Festival With Artful Fantasy

Director Quinten Delahaye leads the design and animation crew at German studio Sehsucht into a brooding merger of alchemy and mystery in these opening titles for the Bump Festival of creativity in Belgium. [Watch]

AssemblyAI Brand Campaign | STASH MAGAZINE

Good Secrets Connect the Dots in AssemblyAI Brand Campaign

Creative director Casey Latiolais and the crew at LA animation studio Good Secrets transform what could have been a dry corporate brand explainer into an engaging and unpredictable dance of abstraction, color, and typography. [Watch]

Plains of Yonder Return to “The Rings of Power” With Season Two Title Sequence

Nominated at the 2023 Emmys for their groundbreaking The Rings of Power main titles, Katrina Crawford and Mark Bashore at Seattle’s Plains of Yonder double-down on their cymatic-based visuals for season two. [Watch]

Fame & Fable Teaser Trailer Owen Davey Games by Yeto Animation | STASH MAGAZINE

Yeto Animation Leaves Peril Behind With Trailer for “Fame & Fable” Board Game

UK husband and wife directing duo Garth and Ginny Jones (who Stash fans know as Persistent Peril) have relaunched themselves as Yeto – re-teaming here with illustrator Owen Davey to promo his fantasy board game Fame & Fable. [Watch]

ManvsMachine Takes U Underwater for Uswitch

The design and animation team at ManvsMachine teams with London agency Lucky Generals to conjure a frothy anchor spot at the center of a new branding campaign for Uswitch, the UK price comparison service and switching site. [Watch]

Tigrelab Walks the Walk in Digital Fashion Show for Cupra

Spanish automotive maker Cupra recently unveiled two new models at a high-profile launch event with the help of nine virtual fashion models and their exotic digital clothing – all designed and animated by the team at Tigrelab in Barcelona. [Watch]

Channel 4 Great British Bake Off by Nexus | STASH MAGAZINE

Nexus Director Bonnie Taylor Forsyth Gives “The Great British Bake Off” Wings

Channel 4 marks the new season of its culinary phenomenon The Great British Bake Off with this pseudo-psychedelic spot directed by Bonnie Taylor Forsyth at Nexus with Sydney’s Mighty Nice handling the animation. [Watch]

Hook Creative Studio Branding Case Study | STASH MAGAZINE

Meet Hook Creative Studio and Their Bold New Branding

Hook Creative Studio, the new Melbourne venture founded by brothers Pat Langton (ex-agency creative) and Matt Langton (motion designer) steps boldly forth with an audacious branding exercise based on the Greek letter Phi. [Watch]