Mark Mothersbaugh on Myopia and Music
Barcelona studio Manson create the next installment of the animated first-person “California Inspires Me” series from Google Play and California Sunday Magazine: a surprising and insightful peek into the childhood of musician/composer/painter and DEVO co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh. [Watch]
Skeffington Breaks into Artjail
Former MPC NY senior producer John Skeffington takes over as the new head of production at Manhattan VFX boutique Artjail. [Watch]
Dougal Wilson, Blinkink and MPC: IKEA “The Joy of Storage”
A combination of puppetry from Jonny & Will at Blinkink and CG from MPC (created from a range of nature and bird references) elevates Dougal Wilson‘s new IKEA spot for Mother into the first major-league awards threat of 2015. [Watch]
Best of Stash 2014 Preview #5: “Turn Down for What”
With “Turn Down for What” set to crack 155M views on YT at the time of this post, Sirs Kwan and Scheinert’s cult status appears to be in jeopardy. But as overplayed and omni-present as it may be, this manic mini-masterwork for the DJ Snake & Lil Jon single deserves to rank on every serious 2014 Best-of list. [Watch]
DANIELS and DAZED Unleash “Interesting Ball”
Misters Kwan and Scheinert‘s singular genius for in-your-face-unpredictable-mayhem continues with this new short produced by Pretty Bird and presented by DAZED starring An Interesting Ball, a handful of cosmic-mini-dramadies and some lol VFX. Don’t think. Just watch. [Watch]
FutureDeluxe “Mothership” Short Film with Twistedpoly
Brighton creative studio FutureDeluxe celebrate their fifth birthday by expanding into London and releasing this blinding swirl of eye-candy called “Mothership,” the first of five films in collaboration with Twistedpoly (aka Slovenian designer/director/motion artist Nejc Polovsak) and Zelig Sound. [Watch]