After collaborating for 20+ years, designer/directors Cornel Swoboda and Dennis Weyel founded Studio Trench in 2025 and immediately established what the world could expect from them with this riveting Braun spec film. [Watch]
Not To Scale director Anthony Farquhar-Smith invests his many stop-motion talents into building a Lilliputian world of peanut-obsessed characters for National Peanut Board thru agency Special USA. [Watch]
Category Advertising, Animation, CG, Character Animation, Featured, Stop Motion · Tags Anthony Farquhar-Smith, Freefolk, National Peanut Board, Not to Scale, Special USA, Yamination Studios, Yessian
Nexus Studios director Laurie Rowan powers up the kitschy fun of an 80s training montage in this keynote film for Google’s I/O 2026 event, a cheeky and tactile merger of 3D animation, puppetry, and AI. [Watch]
Category AI, Animation, Brand film, CG, Character Animation, Featured, Puppets · Tags Factory Studios, Google, Laurie Rowan, Nexus, Nexus Studios
The team at London 3D and motion house Bolder are rightfully celebrating 20 years in a tough business with an ambitious rebrand in collab with UK studio Monday Nights and anchored by these launch and manifesto films. [Watch]
The 2026 edition of the Atlas Festival kicked off in Lisbon with this title sequence, infused with plenty of drama and a dash of Stoicism, by local motion masters Afonso Amaro and João Vaz Oliveira. [Watch]
Prettybird director (and Oscar-nominee/Emmy-winner) Kirsten Lepore works with the animation crew at Mathematic and ex-droga5 ECD Kevin Weir to channel the many eccentricities of personal wellness for self-care app Finch. [Watch]