Director Duo Witness Signs to Sibling Rivalry Roster
July 21, 2025
Designer/printmaker Julia Schimautz at DTAN Studio in Berlin and newly-launched Gaussian Studio (aka Ines Soutschka and Jessica Barraclough) team on this wonderfully tactile lyric video for “Tina”, a track off Pulp’s first album in 24 years. [Watch]
Half Rez is one of the biggest meetups of the year for motion designers, animators, producers, students, and studios across Chicago and the Midwest. Over 400 people come together for a full day and night of learning, networking, and celebration. [Watch]
In their latest short film, Oscar-nominated animation studio Job, Joris & Marieke reveal both their passion for tackling the climate crisis and their talent for delivering an important message with style and wit. [Watch]
Elastic CD Nadia Tzuo, who took home a 2024 Emmy Award for her Shōgun TV series titles (featured in Stash 167), turns her many design and motion talents to advertising in this dramatic and richly detailed work for Fiji Water. [Watch]
Director James Mabery and the Fern animation team in Atlanta elevate the craft of the explainer video into a softly hypnotic geometric narrative “showcasing the speed and intelligence of AI” for an unnamed SAAS client. [Watch]
While the world doesn’t suffer from a shortage of parodies of The Simpsons titles, this latest stab from the crew at 4Creative (with logo-stuffing VFX support from Lucky Cat in London) is definitely a fresh take. [Watch]
CD Leo Mateus and director Rafael Eifler lead the Tendril design and motion team in crafting this launch film for the CB1 Bitcoin-backed credit card, the first physical product from US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. [Watch]
Vilnius studio Symbiotic reteams with SAES Design House to wrangle a collection of striking CG fauna – including an octopus, tree frog, and emperor penguins – to showcase the primary features of the B!POD food preservation system. [Watch]
The last time director Anton Shavkero and his CLAN crew teamed with CG studio AVE we got this esport madness. Now they’ve applied their unhinged 3D thinking to this future-pop racer vision for PUMA’s classic Speedcat sneaker. [Watch]
CD Paul McDonnell and the design and animation team at Huge in London sculpt a literal page-turner to open Bookish, a British period crime drama series about a book shop owner who helps the police solve crimes. [Watch]
Berlin’s world-renowned character design conference returns to New York for its 11th edition on September 25–26, at the SVA Theatre. Expect two days of talks, screenings, and discussions shaped by new technologies and visual culture. [Watch]
The 77th Emmy Awards nominees were announced July 15th with six contenders vying for the much-coveted Outstanding Title Design hardware, including Plains of Yonder (x2), Imaginary Forces, yU + co, Filmograph, and Oliver Latta. [Watch]
After two powerful editions, Playgrounds returns to London for In Motion 2025 on October 9–10, bringing artist talks, panels, live demos, and a new app to connect creatives throughout the festival. [Watch]
Eddy director Clément Soulmagnon (whose work we track here), amplifies his signature animated poetry into far more intense and fiery territory in this new brand film for top-tier French cycling brand Van Rysel. [Watch]
