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1stAveMachine Wants to “Be Like Mike”

1stAveMachine remixes Gatorade’s 1991 feel-good classic “Be Like Mike” spot with tasty layers of rotoscoping and graphics for TBWA\Chiat\Day. [Watch]

Stirling Gravitas Helps You “Keep Control”

A snappy and seamless example of VFX supporting the story (instead of taking over) in this new award-worthy spot from Biscuit director Jeff Low for TENA Men thru AMV with The Mill doing what they do best. [Watch]

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Alice Saey: Shaking Godspeed “She’s Young” Music Video

French director/designer Alice Saey just won the HAFFTube! award at the Holland Animation Film Festival with this deranged mix of hair, fire and synchronized swimming for Dutch rockers Shaking Godspeed. [Watch]

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Gergely Wootsch and Terry Jones Celebrate Magna Carta

Everything you ever wanted to know about the seminal English charter of 1215 called Magna Carta in two short, entertaining and nicely crafted animated clips by Beakus director/designer Gergely Wootsch with the VO talents of Monty Python’s Terry Jones. [Watch]

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Emmanuelle & Julien “My Dear Gnome”

Chez Eddy/Hornet directors Emmanuelle & Julien (who both worked on the spectacular Supinfocom short A La Française) just dropped us their latest: a short, sweet, animated confection shedding light on the hidden lives and frustrations of garden ornaments. [Watch]

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Ben West Loses His Head Over “FUGU & TAKO”

Ben West, currently creative director at Framestore LA, just released the full version of his phenomenal sushi comedy “FUGU & TAKO” for your viewing pleasure. The doc-style buddy film (exploring the perils and unexpected pleasures of eating live puffer fish) and the perfectly realized VFX were created [Watch]

STASH 110 Arrives Bearing Gifts

The Stash Permanent Collection keeps growing with issue 110 adding another 31 brilliant animation, VFX and motion design projects PLUS an outstanding 49 minutes of revealing behind-the-scenes features and exclusive interviews with the designers, directors and producers behind the work. Over 4,000 of the planet’s most innovative and interesting commercials, music videos, brand films, broadcast […] [Watch]

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ProSieben Redesign 2015

Creative Solutions, the in-house design agency of German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 TV, handled the recent full channel-wide rebrand of their mothership drawing inspiration from the UIs of mobile platforms. [Watch]

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Michael Fragstein Enters His “Plea”

Stash is pleased to premier director Michael Fragstein’s whimsical, minimal and completely unpredictable mini-music video for “Plea” by Max & Laura Braun produced at the Büro Achter April studio in Stuttgart. [Watch]

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The Animation Workshop: “Fibers”

The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark continues to incubate a broad range of impressive student work including this VFX stunner from a team of six 3rd year Character Animation and CG Arts students: “The fibers of our being are what we seek to control. Through dance, do we fight the chaos or let it go?” [Watch]

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Obsessive Robot Pines for Lost Love

Intriguing live action and CG trailer for Polish sci-fi writer Jacek Dukaj’s new novel “The Old Axolotl” from director Maciej Jackiewicz and Warsaw’s 3D powerhouse Platige Image who also handled all the visual content for the e-book and key visuals for the promo campaign. [Watch]

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Tickled by the Hand of Death

Animation director Luiz Stockler at Agile Films in London leavens Australian surf veteran Rob Bain’s incredible story of a tsunami-induced near death experience with a subdued comic edge in the second of a series for Red Bull Media. [Watch]

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Buster Keaton via Franz Kafka

Paris motion designer and art director Raphaël Bluzet just dropped us his newest animated short called “IN”: a quick stream of consciousness nightmare based on the illustrations of Yohan Quintar and starring an alternate-universe Buster Keaton re-imagined by Franz Kafka on a rough day. [Watch]

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Golden Wolf Opens OFFSET 2015

OFFSET, Dublin’s multi-disciplinary creative festival, opened their 2015 presentation on Friday with a title sequence jammed with cheeky felines and freeform typography created by London animation prodco Golden Wolf and hometown audio house Echolab. [Watch]

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