Director Roman Veiga Joins Troublemakers’ Roster
April 18, 2024
With a wink to Pixar’s groundbreaking 1986 short film Luxo Jr., the VFX team at The Mill in Paris and Bangalore create a curious CCTV camera character for this Peugeot E-308 spot directed by Mark Jenkinson at Movie Magic. [Watch]
If you’ve been watching the NBA playoffs on ESPN you no doubt wondered (like us) who designed the glittering graphics package. Mystery solved: the studio is London’s Panoply who are here to share their process and R&D reel. [Watch]
Animator India Barnardo, whose feature film credits include Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and The Sea Beast, makes her directorial debut with the release of this charming romp called Cat and Moth. [Watch]
Creative director Misha Petrick and his Berlin design and animation crew capture all the frustration and absurdity of life’s mundane tasks in this expressive character spot, one in a new series for Tinkoff Bank cashback debit cards. [Watch]
Iranian CG specialists Revna Studio just cruised onto the Stash radar with this airy spot for US custom furniture brand Dream Sofa: “a visually captivating animation that delves into the essence of the brand and products.” [Watch]
The 2023 edition of the Semi Permanent festival launched in Sydney last week with this quizzical animated title sequence by Emmy-winning designer/AD Filipe Carvalho reflecting on this year’s theme of reformation. [Watch]
Copenhagen motion design studio Frame lights up the latest volley in the CG watch wars with this starkly elegant product film for TAG Heuer’s Monaco Skeleton timepiece just in time for the 2023 Monaco F1 Grand Prix. [Watch]
Chinese director and CG artist Ajiao Weiye, who hit the Stash radar last summer with this outstanding title sequence, calls out the irresponsibility of gambling with the Earth’s environment in this dramatic new CG short film. [Watch]
São Paulo director/musician Patrick Hanser combines his many talents and Playground AI into a video for the first single from his music project Bacará, prompted with art styles from painters including Picasso, Kandinsky, and Miró. [Watch]
Digital artist and filmmaker Axl Le and his talents for conjuring dangerous near-future worlds return with this short film, a creative alliance with South Korean actor/singer/model/creative director Lee Minho. [Watch]
Iconoclast directing duo Alaska (aka Gustavo Moraes and Marco Laver) launch Droga5’s new global campaign for LinkedIn with a riveting mix of dance, puppeteering, and VFX all held together by LA post house Kevin. [Watch]
With his small Kyiv studio closed due to the Russian occupation, director/3D artist Anatolii Belikov regroups his scattered team virtually to craft visuals for the Pitch Music & Arts Festival in Australia. [Watch]
Armenian director and motion artist Hasmik Mkhchyan combines her appreciation for American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick and new forms of visual storytelling into a personal short film created with Stable Diffusion. [Watch]
London studio Optical Arts and director Fabrice Le Nezet continue their in-house visual experiments with Babel, a short film “blurring the lines between history, illustration, typography, print, animation, architecture, and design.” [Watch]
