Apple and TBWAMedia Arts Lab came together with director Lucia Aniello–co-creator of Hacks, a series for which she’s won a DGA Award and two Emmys (writing and directing)–and stop-motion animator and director Anna Mantzaris to create this four-minute holiday film titled Fuzzy Feelings.
The live-action/stop-motion combo film introduces us to an office worker by day and stop-motion artist by night. As an employee, she works for a boss whom she’s grown to hate. So at night, her stop-motion creations put him in dire straits. The young woman makes her stop-motion fare by deploying the iPhone 15 Pro camera and a MacBook Air with M2 to edit it.
However, when work takes a turn and she starts to see her boss in another light, so too do her stop-motion endeavors as we see the value of working towards a kinder world, and what better time to start than during the holiday season?