It’s always a happy moment when a Smith & Foulkes spot lands in your in box. Stash has been a fan of the Nexus directing duo since we featured their groundbreaking Honda “Hate Something” spot on the cover of issue 3 almost five years ago. This latest spot for HP thru Goodby, Silverstein & Partners will not [...]
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Director James Price and NYC’s Transistor crank up the silly-ideas-per-second factor in this happy and dense collage for UK charity SingUp.org. The studio landed the spot through their UK reps Strange Beast (the repping branch of Passion Pictures). Watch”SingUp”
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Polish director Grzegorz Jonkajtys (who won Best of Show at Siggraph 2007 forThe Ark), is back with a new dystopian sci-fi short called 36 Stairs. This time out Jonkajtys adds live action to the mix shooting with what he calls the “amazing” Canon 5D MarkII DSLR in HD video mode. Starring Rodrigo Lopresti, directed by Grzegorz Jonkajtys, written [...]
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Another week of animated madness has come and gone in Canada’s capital city as the Ottawa International Animation Festival projectors turn off for 2009. I’ve listed all the fancy award winners at the bottom of this post, but the totally unofficial Stash congeniality prize goes to the bouncing stop-motion opening fromHead Gear Animation that kicked [...]
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Feeling a little off today? Like things just aren’t where they should be? Chances are you have it better than the hero in Jeremy Clapin’s exceptional short called “Skhizein.” Seen at more film festivals than I even knew existed, this 13-minute mini-masterwork explores a simple concept with plenty of thought and style. Watch “Skhizein” on [...]
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MPC bring on their arsenal of proprietary CG tools to create and orchestrate this CG mouse and 50,000 traps. For instance: To achieve the mouse traps snapping and colliding with each other, the London studio wrote a series of event-based simulation scripts to automate the traps snapping based on incoming collisions. Director: dom&nic, Agency: Fallon, [...]
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Smooth new Adidas b-ball spot directed by Patrick Murphy through Elastic with VFX by a52 deserves more than one viewing – the edit and compositing synthesize into a surgical b-ball dance. Makes watching dunks interesting again. Agency: 180 Los Angeles (180/TBWA), Production: Elastic. Director: Patrick Murphy. Editorial: Jon Hopp @ Rock Paper Scissors, VFX/Finishing: a52, [...]
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