A collage of four abstract graphic designs in the style of the Shiritori animated short film: a plus sign with a floral pattern, a red ribbed looping shape, geometric pink and blue forms, and a diamond frame surrounding blue and purple elements. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

Transitional Flow: Watch Hitoshi Morita’s Mesmerizing New Short Film “Shiritori”

Posted on October 2, 2026

Hitoshi Morita, founder and director at MULTRA in Tokyo, just sent us his new personal project, a one-man exquisite corpse-style compilation of sixty connected short clips produced daily over the course of two months. [Watch]

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A bald man with a slight smile looks at the camera in this black-and-white portrait. Exposed brick and dark walls set the scene for Spiders-&-Sparrows-Signs-Emmy-Award-Winning-Director-Raj-Dias. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

Spiders & Sparrows Signs Emmy-Winning Director Raj Dias

Posted on October 1, 2026

From the release: Spiders & Sparrows has announced the signing of Emmy Award-winning director Raj Dias to its growing roster of directors and creative talent. [Watch]

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A person performs a split between two moving Volvo trucks on an empty road at sunset, with the parallel trucks in a dramatic shot created by Swedish visual effects studio SWISS. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

Haymaker VFX acquires Swedish Visual Effects Studio SWISS

Posted on October 1, 2026

From the release: Haymaker VFX has acquired Swedish visual effects studio SWISS, bringing together two long-established names in high-end VFX to strengthen Haymaker’s creative and production presence in Stockholm. [Watch]

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A futuristic soldier in a helmet and yellow scarf holds a high-tech rifle, standing against cracked stone in a ruined, reddish landscape—evoking the cinematic style of Gort sci-fi short film by Beeld. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

Beeld Let’s Loose With GORT Sci-Fi Action Short Film

Posted on October 1, 2026

The last time we featured Rio de Janeiro design and animation studio Beeld was for this macro nature doc exercise. But GORT, their newest in-house project, trades the microscope for a mech and plenty of sci-fi action. [Watch]

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A colorful, cartoonish robot with a blue face and red star eyes stands before a black-and-white checkered background, as floating numbers and binary code form an @ symbol—evoking the Kairm Dabbèche Overload Short Film. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

Karim Dabbèche Makes Stash Debut with “Overload” Short

Posted on September 30, 2026

Munich-based motion designer/illustrator Karim Dabbèche just dropped us his new feel-good micro-short called Overload, a whimsical multi-style exploration of “multiplicity, forms and identities”. [Watch]

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VFX Supervisor Alfie Vaughan joins RASCAL—a man with glasses, a beard, and short dark hair wears a denim jacket over a gray shirt, standing indoors by a tiled wall and exposed bricks. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

VFX Supervisor & YouTuber Alfie Vaughan Joins RASCAL

Posted on September 30, 2026

From the release: RASCAL has hired VFX supervisor Alfie Vaughan, one of the most-watched creators in UK visual effects, joining its VFX team, further strengthening its integrated AI VFX workflow. [Watch]

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