Grab Stash 16 and start off the year inspired. Our latest issue is another rock solid collection of the most important and innovative animation, VFX and motion design work from twenty-nine studios on four continents.

Up front, in the big budget category, you'll find brilliant new spot work from Passion Pictures for Vodafone's "Mayfly", exploding/imploding vehicles from Digital Domain for Lexus, the BBC's weird but wonderful giant head made from heads from The Mill, basketball mech warriors for EA Sports from Motion Theory and animated masterpieces for Johnny Walker from Aardman.

And that's just the beginning. From a record number of submissions we've selected an incredibly diverse lineup of work including pioneering design for MTV China by Life Long Friendship Society, beautiful short films for the Sundance Channel from Headgear, kooky VW shorts from Brand New School, the M5 Coke video from Designers Republic, hypnotic new Napster spots from Psyop and a hilarious CG video from Partizan Lab UK for Jamiroquai (on the cover).

More highlights not to be missed: Spots from Bent Image Lab and Sway that shred the envelope of 3D technology, 70's psychedelics from Floria Sigismondi for The Living Things, fresh and fun broadcast design from Addiction and Alphaville, a genre-mashing video from Montreal's Flourescent Hill, and finally, from director Neill Blomkamp, his newest and most ambitious personal work yet. It's called "Alive in Joberg" and it's like nothing you've seen before. NTSC/Regional code is ALL.