Director Reza Dolatabadi and Prodco Madrefoca Launch NOBORDER Studio
April 30, 2025
In this spec spot, director/CG artist Aleksandr Smirnov and the CG crew at The Ciners in London conjure an atmosphere of intrigue and envy by framing Samsung’s HMD Odyssey+ VR headset as an uber-fashionable must-have. [Watch]
Narrated by Rooster the dog, this quirky/adorable brand film animated by Vancouver storytellers Giant Ant anchors a surprisingly emotional new campaign from Seattle agency Little Hands of Stone (LHoS) for pet care platform Rover. [Watch]
With a flurry of animation styles (including 3D, 2D, cel, 8-bit, and photo-real CG) the Laundry crew pokes gentle fun at the ever-expanding torrent of milk imitators in the latest Got Milk? spot for the California Milk Processor Board. [Watch]
The Mill rallies a massive team of VFX artists to replace 418 live-action heads with CG golf gloves in this swinging party helmed by Riff Raff Films’ directing duo The Sacred Egg for Topgolf and their electronic driving range game venues. [Watch]
Omer Hirsch, 3D motion designer in Toronto: “This is a personal project which reflects the most frustrating pain point of every creative process: working like crazy while time flies by, only to have a crash and realize you can’t remember the last time you hit Ctrl+s.” [Watch]
ECD Loren Judah and the design/animation team at We Are Royale (WAR) in LA stir 3D, cel, 2.5D, and machine learning into a two-minute maelstrom/origin story for the release of Naafiri, the latest League of Legends playable champion. [Watch]
Aardman director Åsa Lucander, whose warm and approachable animation styles are on full display here and here, reteams with BBC’s venerable kids’ show Blue Peter, for a new short film about the power of childhood imagination. [Watch]
Following up last summer’s atmospheric teaser for his new sci-fi IP Parallel, Toronto designer/animator Oscar Mar just dropped us his first full trailer for the franchise that includes a trading card game, comics, and short films. [Watch]
CG specialists Atelier Ostal in Toulouse, France, just landed on the Stash radar with their submission of this sleek and minimal spot produced in concert with Paris-based composer and sound designer Ugo Pignal. [Watch]
New York creative content house Hero Studios and Barcelona animator/AD Germán Di Ciccio add visual insights to a Radiolab podcast “about music, memory, and what it means to be human” by exploring the phenomenon of musical hallucinations. [Watch]
Director/CD Benoit Challand at Magnane in Lyon, France: “We were invited to create the hero film and key visuals for the Nano X, one of the most popular products from Ledger, a trusted maker of hardware crypto wallets. [Watch]
ECD Ingi Erlingsson and the design/animation team at Golden Wolf wrangle a parliament of owls into a dramatic action/fantasy in their latest for Moonbirds, the 10,000-piece NFT collection of digital avatars created by PROOF. [Watch]
From the team at Tigrelab in Barcelona: “Brutal Shadow is an explorative CG short film where light and shadow take center stage to explore architectural form and atmosphere through 12 iconic brutalist buildings.” [Watch]
Fifteen years into his career, Montreal freelance 3D artist/motion designer Guillaume Combeaud continues to declare his love for the medium with a series of passion projects. This sleek, near-future Nike spec spot is his latest. [Watch]
