Demo Duck Expands Offerings with ‘DD Docs’
October 15, 2026
Music and sound design studios usually find themselves tucked into the tail end of a project’s schedule, but the crew at Cypher have flipped that script with the first in a new series of Sonic Studies. [Watch]
Winning and losing are the hard realities at the center of the creative pitching process, but as Nerdo ECD Claus Cibils points out, there are shades of both and lessons to be learned from all of them. [Watch]
The crew at Paris 3D house Studio River dip their toe into the CG watch wars with this spec spot for Hublot called R.EVISITED – a standout black and white treatment that is both stark and wonderfully nuanced. [Watch]
It’s hard to think of a business category more detached than legal AI but this textured and tactile treatment from the design crew at Oddfellows in Portland for the launch Harvey II layers humanity onto the legal intelligence. [Watch]
Art Directors Club, the planet’s longest continuously running creative awards program, refuses to act its age in this joyfully anarchic launch campaign for their 106th (!) edition via the motion crew at DixonBaxi in London. [Watch]
Paul Jordan, a creative partner at adam&eveTBWA in London, spent a year wrangling 18 animators and 12 prodcos for this massive labor of love, a film for World Mental Health Day in collaboration with UK charity Sport In Mind. [Watch]
Australian creative agency Howatson+Company merges 3D, 2D, VFX, and generative AI into a fun and fuzzy mock-stop-motion treatment for this set of films anchoring a new campaign for pet care retailer Petbarn. [Watch]
Our partners at the Telly Awards honor excellence in video and television across all screens, and entries for the 48th season, “Made to Move” are open with new design and animation categories. [Watch]
In their latest work for premium EV marque Polestar, Swedish CG studio Brickland intros the company’s Prime equipment package with a stripped down and slightly surreal Houdini-intensive treatment. [Watch]
We’re excited to announce that this year, Design will once again have its own dedicated space in our Calendar of Events! Like Advertising, Short Film and Music Video sections, Design and Design Craft now has its own slot in our annual schedule. [Watch]
Director Jules Bourgès, who we first spotted in 2019 as one of the student co-directors of this Gobelins film, just released this hand-crafted animated fantasy for composer/producer Mistthom, produced thru WIZZ in Paris. [Watch]
In this edition of his series of Stash editorials, Nerdo ECD Claus Cibils looks at why the creative pitching process usually feels like a four-alarm fire and suggests a few ways to keep the flames under control. [Watch]
Circus, the brand new design and motion conference, makes its debut Dec 3 in São Paulo, with a speaker line-up including Studio Dumbar, FutureDeluxe, State, Zipeng Zhu, Cyla Costa, and many more. [Watch]
In their latest in-house motion project, Madrid CG design lab Pleid St. extends seven species of fauna beyond their natural boundaries into a poetic and mesmerizing visualization of scent. [Watch]
Roma director Manu Mazzaro and Sauvage animation director Ernest Desumbila merge 3D, live-action, motion capture, and AI into the single most ambitious and un-touristy tourism film you may ever witness. [Watch]
