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Autofuss: Making the 2015 YouTube Music Awards Launch Film

Discover how Autofuss director/CD Tarik Abdel-Gawad and director of photography Joe Picard harness the scan ray problem often encountered while filming lasers to create in-camera floating architectural elements and typography made of light for the 2015 YouTube Music Awards Launch Film. [Watch]

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Interview: Jean-Paul Frenay, OFFF Quebec Titles 2015

Belgium-based director/CD/artist Jean-Paul Frenay talks to Stash about the brooding and ambitious titles he created for the second edition of the OFFF Festival in Quebec with VFX help from the Paris branch of Prodigious [Watch]

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Ben&Julia: Traffic Signs & Jake The Rapper “COOKIE JAR”

Berlin’s French-Swiss director/AD duo Ben&Julia unleash a maximalist romp of confection-colored strangeness and fun, starring Bronx-born Jacob Dove Basker (aka Jake The Rapper), that defies any further description – or words in general. Suggest just watching. [Watch]

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Epic 7-Minute Skippable YouTube Pre-Roll Ad

Android’s “Be Together. Not the same.” campaign continues with this endurance test for your pre-roll sanity animated by NOMINT in London with sound by Huma-Huma in NY. [Watch]

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The Brothers McLeod: Western Weirdness in Warwickshire

Thick Warwickshire accents lend a certain silliness to the unlikely “story of ruthless and intrepid explorers Longhorn and Lawless as they hunt for the fabled Pure Gold.” All lovingly hand-drawn for The Purity Brewing Company by fellow Warwickshireites (Warwickshireinians?) The Brothers McLeod with music by Tom Angel. [Watch]

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Discovery Latin America “Street Magic”

London CD/director Fernando Lazzari shuffles up an engaging and wonderfully rendered piece of broadcast work for Discovery Latin America’s hidden-camera-sleight-of-hand-meets-science show called “Street Magic.” [Watch]

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Smith & Foulkes: The Grand National 2015

Channel 4’s promotion for the annual UK steeplechase spectacle known as Crabbie’s Grand National Festival takes a mythological turn as Nexus directors Smith & Foulkes and 4Creative craft a classic adventure/fairytale of “The Outsider,” a unicorn foal with runty wings and a twisted horn, overcoming impossible odds. [Watch]

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Let Mischa Rozema Transport You to “SUNDAYS”

Back in June 2014 Stash featured the trailer for Mischa Rozema‘s ambitious science-fiction project called “SUNDAYS,” which went on to raise $50K on Kickstarter. The cash was used to create this stunning 15-minute proof of concept short designed to grab the attention of Hollywood and financing for the full feature-length production. [Watch]

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Limon Estudios: Adidas “There Will be Haters”

Fabulous rant for Adidas soccer boots based on a script by agency Iris Worldwide, assembled by Spanish director Ernest Desumbila thru Frenzy Paris with VFX/post by Limon Estudios in Barcelona and starring footballers Luis Suarez, Karim Benzema, James Rodriguez and Gareth Bale. [Watch]

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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]

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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]