Four colorful, childlike drawings of aliens and astronauts: a McDonald’s rocket lands, an alien receives a Happy Meal in a Crayola spaceship, an astronaut with green hair floats, and a blue alien waves. Created with the playful spirit of Nexus Studios. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

Shynola & Nexus Studios Pencil In Creativity for Crayola and McDonalds

Nexus Studios’ directing collective Shynola (Chris Harding, Jason Groves, Richard Kenworthy) let loose with Crayola pencils in this spot for the brand’s collab with McDonald’s, encouraging kids to embrace their creativity. [Watch]

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Daniel Kleinman & Nexus Studios “Play Dirty” With Shane Black and Amazon Prime

Rattling Stick director Daniel Kleinman and the motion crew at Nexus Studios tear into the printed quirks of mid-century crime paperbacks in these opening titles for Shane Black’s new action heist thriller Play Dirty on Amazon Prime. [Watch]

Erwin van den IJssel and Nexus Studios Open Playgrounds In Motion 2025 in London

Nexus Studios’ CD Erwin van den IJssel continues his string of impossible-to-ignore titles for Playgrounds events (see here and here) with this rambunctious motion sequence for the 2025 edition of the In Motion conference in London. [Watch]

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Johnny Kelly & Nexus Plug Into “Feel Good Energy”

Nexus Studios director Johnny Kelly’s animated character mastery takes many forms and this latest, a musical romp for Austria’s Energie AG thru Vienna agency Studio Sonntag, merges live-action sockets and CG lip-sync. [Watch]

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Laurie Rowan and Nexus Studios Go Cuckoo for Telstra

Fabulous character work here courtesy of Nexus director Laurie Rowan, who deploys a stop-motion aesthetic in a series of deadpan CG social media clips for Australian telco Telstra thru Sydney agencies +61 and Bear Meets Eagle On Fire. [Watch]