A collage featuring: an 8-bit style soccer player, nails painted with a footballer and red-white-blue gradient, orange soccer players art on a brick wall, and a smiling football bobblehead labeled YA MAAL—evoking Nicos Livesey animation for BBC World Cup. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

Nicos Livesey Animates on Everything in Buildup to BBC’s World Cup Coverage

Blinkink director Nicos Livesey, whose stop-motion titles for BBC’s coverage of the UEFA Women’s EURO nabbed a BAFTA this year, expands his animation canvas exponentially in this trailer for the World Cup on BBC Sport. [Watch]

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Uncommon & Friends Unleash “Heroes Take the Crown” Short Film for Clash Royale

The Stockholm branch of Uncommon Creative wrangles seven directors and prodco’s into an epic eight-minute exquisite corpse-style short film for Supercell’s Clash Royale that includes CG, stop-motion, 2D animation, and VFX segments. [Watch]

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Nicos Livesey Stops at Nothing for 2025 UEFA Women’s Euro

Blinkink director Nicos Livesey and BBC Creative (who teamed on this breakout 2018 World Cup work) just dropped another craft-heavy soccer spot, a stop-motion spectacle for BBC’s coverage of the 2025 UEFA Women’s Euro. [Watch]

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Nicos Livesey Trips Through Epic Time-Lapse for BritBox

Blinkink director Nicos Livesey heads up an insanely ambitious, craft-centered spot for the streaming service BritBox – a 90-second time-lapse journey through highlights of British TV shot in a single take over the course of 14 hours. [Watch]

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Best of Stash 2021: Music Videos

Offering creative freedom to balance the lack (or total absence) of budget, music videos provide directors, animators, and VFX artists with rare encouragement to prove new techniques and indulge eccentric ideas. [Watch]