Heckler Expands Asia-Pacific Presence with Shanghai Launch
October 29, 2025
Born as an event, DDD has become the yearly global center of the digital design community, bringing the world closer together. Engage with industry leaders, connect with brands and collaborators, and build meaningful relationships. [Watch]
Very befitting a Halloween post, CD Moises Arancibia and the animation team at SMOG in Santiago, Chile, just dropped us their new film recounting the spooky origin story of Concha y Toro’s best-selling wine Casillero del Diablo. [Watch]
NOMINT director/designer Ariel Costa works his motion magic to transform documentary photography into two stirring brand films for climate justice movement Project Dandelion and their call for investment in women smallholder farmers. [Watch]
Sava Živković, the Belgrade-based director whose prodigious talents for apocalyptic world-building we’ve documented here, here, and here, just dropped the first chapter of a new dark and deadly vision, complete with a full BTS guided tour. [Watch]
ECD Erin Sarofsky reteams with showrunner Ken Woodruff (who she worked with on the NBC series The Enemy Within) to set a tone of tension and intrigue for the new spy thriller Butterfly, based on the graphic novel by Arash Amel. [Watch]
The crew at Tomorrow Bureau in London push past the idea of a director’s cut to create a self-initiated full extension of their commissioned launch film for the new Renault R5 Turbo 3E, an all-electric, high-performance mini supercar. [Watch]
Rattling Stick director Daniel Kleinman and the motion crew at Nexus Studios tear into the printed quirks of mid-century crime paperbacks in these opening titles for Shane Black’s new action heist thriller Play Dirty on Amazon Prime. [Watch]
Director Anna Ginsburg, whose wonderfully off-kilter work we track here, just released a dizzying trailer for her latest short film, a dark comedy about “breakups, impending doom, and the monstrous pressures of modern womanhood.” [Watch]
The Sharks, until now, always combined Design with advertising at our festival/awards. However over the past few years, we’ve been listening to a LOT of Designers who, simply put, would prefer their own dedicated awards. [Watch]
Berlin-based 3D artist Daria Togunova merges her longing for home with a mastery of Houdini and Redshift to craft a very tactile short film “capturing small fragments of people I love and translating them into 3D embroidery.” [Watch]
Woodblock, the Berlin studio founded by directing collective Polynoid in 2013, just dropped us their latest magnum opus, Bye Bear – a short film that writer/director Jan Bitzer labels a fever dream and an homage to David Lynch. [Watch]
Setting out to prove how far they “can push high-intensity motion design”, CDs Kay Hilman, Boris Bouwmeester, and their team at DOT4 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, construct a CG exercise in re-imagining the ordinary. [Watch]
If you’re looking to get a jump on your Halloween inspiration, the Golden Wolf animation crew have you covered with this intense gore-fest, aka the launch trailer for the latest chapter of Behaviour Interactive’s Dead by Daylight survival game. [Watch]
Amsterdam-based film director and digital artist Tom Gera just dropped us his latest short film, a dramatic power struggle built with live-action choreography enhanced with Unreal Engine, AI-assisted image manipulation, and 3D scanning. [Watch]
