A landscape of hand-built miniature houses (inspired by real Airbnb properties) and their CG occupants come to highly-detailed life in this spot crafted by Buck and House Special for Airbnb’s AirCover travel protection. [Watch]
Combining live action, stop motion animation, and VFX is certainly not new but Furlined director Dougal Wilson makes the mix feel fresh as well as fun in this shotgun wedding of Western and preschool movie genres. [Watch]
Stash is excited to present the online premiere of “Jailbreak,” House Special director Aaron Sorenson’s light-hearted, stop-motion wink to German Expressionism. Photographed in rich black and white, the ambitious in-house film follows the studio’s wildly successful 2015 CG short “Tale of Momentum & Inertia.” [Watch]
Back in May, Portland animation studio LAIKA announced it was spinning off its advertising division LAIKA/House to focus on feature films.
The new independent entity, branded House Special and lead by president Lourri Hammack, CD Kirk Kelley and MD of strategic operations Al Cubillas, are off to a promising start completing the end credits of LAIKA’s Boxtrolls and this acerbic in-house CG short called “A Tale of Momentum & Inertia.” [Watch]
