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Best of Stash 2025: Characters!

2025 was another stellar year for character-driven design and animation projects with an extraordinary range of styles and production techniques all focused on a singular goal: ensuring the narrative engages and resonates. [Watch]

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Best of Stash 2025: 3D Style!

No other sub-genre of motion design generates the measurable excitement (clicks, views, likes, etc.) among Stash fans and subscribers as the work we classify as 3D Style – a type of CG magic realism with transportive powers. [Watch]

Li Xuan Reveals the Soft Side of AI in Music Video for Roy Wang’s “The Star Shepherd”

A full-on cultural phenomenon in China where it drove over 50 million views in 24 hours, this emotional music video for singer/songwriter and UNICEF ambassador Roy Wang, uses AI to simulate the warmth of stop-motion felt animation. [Watch]

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Two to Tango: Pierre Dupaquier & Digital District Dance Up a Storm for CANAL+

Paris VFX force Digital District and Iconoclast director Pierre Dupaquier (one half of directing duo We Are From LA), choreograph the collaboration of cinema in this rousing brand film for French broadcaster CANAL+ thru agency BETC. [Watch]

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Scholar Conjures “Mystical Magical” Holidays for Target

ECD William Campbell leads the design and animation team at Scholar through Target’s massive, feel-good holiday campaign including over 30 spots spread across all screens from mobile, to in-store, to Times Square. [Watch]

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Message in a Bottle: Martin Engh & Brikk Channel Don Bluth for Infinitum Holiday Spot

Director Martin Engh at Oslo prodco ADP and Stockholm animation house Brikk craft a sobering holiday spot for Infinitum, the Norwegian non-profit responsible for the country’s recycling system for plastic bottles and aluminum cans. [Watch]