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June 13, 2025
CD Ty Hayward at agency MullenLowe in Los Angeles takes over the director’s chair in this new Acura spot, wrangling animation from five artists and VFX from Arc Creative into an upbeat and unpredictable multimedia romp. [Watch]
In the spring of 2024 Stash featured this mixed-media masterwork from London’s Dog & Rabbit. And now (better late than never) the studio have dropped a BTS video to verify their hand-made street cred (sort of). [Watch]
Aardman director Åsa Lucander brings story craft and genuine emotion to the decidedly unromantic subject of groundwater flooding in this spot starring Darcy the mole and his quest for love amidst a natural disaster. [Watch]
The 20th edition of the Graphika Manila creative conference opened with this crazed rampage of creatures and typography from directors Marcel Ziul, Lucho Suarez, and the animation crew at State in Los Angeles. [Watch]
The latest in director/animator Michael Fragstein’s ongoing collaboration with venerable German writing instrument brand LAMY builds a complex and kinetic design language targeted at a younger audience. [Watch]
Prague-based directing duo Wolfberg (aka Jan Kalvoda and Premysl Ponahly) scale several VFX summits in this merger of practical set pieces and CG elements for Slovak bank Slovenská sporiteľňa thru Czech agency Zaraguza. [Watch]
Perfectly timed to nudge you into spring fully inspired, Stash 170 packs another two hours of extraordinary motion design, animation, and VFX into the Stash Permanent Collection. Take a peek at the two-minute preview. [Watch]
Acclaimed British photographer/director Rankin wraps Chivas Regal’s 18 blended scotch in several layers of cool for this fashion-forward spot punctuated by hits of CG work from Korb and post by Coffee & TV. [Watch]
Amsterdam studio Ambassadors and agency TBWA\NEBOKO help mark 40 years of Ronald McDonald House in the Netherlands with this warm and whimsical tale of a young girl’s epic quest to keep her family closer to her ailing sister. [Watch]
Pictoplasma x CPH presents a one-day gathering of visionary artists, animators, and creatives for an inspiring afternoon of lectures, discussions, and screenings celebrating contemporary character design and storytelling! [Watch]
Director Jonny Kofoed at Assembly in Aukland, teams with veteran agency creative Nick Worthington to craft an artful and very personal mixed media short film based on Worthington’s struggle to recover from brain trauma. [Watch]
Standing out in the CG watch wars is tough but AD/designer Hugo Escande at French studio DEUX MILLE does just that in this Bell & Ross film, subtly linking the timepiece’s spinning hands to the brand’s aviation roots. [Watch]
ECD Mason Nicoll and the Digital Kitchen team (whose work you should watch here and here) weave distressed found footage into a menacing mix of nostalgia and psychological angst in their titles for S3 of the Showtime drama Yellowjackets. [Watch]
CD duo Romina Giarrizzo and Marco Salemi at Milan motion house Hup.Studio just dropped us this elegant exercise in lighting and texture showcasing the COSMO sofa system for designer Philippe Tabet and Italian furniture brand Et al. [Watch]
