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November 5, 2025
Vincent Lammers, ECD in BUCK’s Amsterdam studio, heads up this vibrant and thoughtful launch film for consumer electronics brand Nothing and their Playground AI platform that allows users to design and personalize their phones. [Watch]
The MullenLowe Design Studio gives The Branch Museum of Design in Richmond, Virginia, a hand up the cultural ladder with a fresh and flexible new visual identity based on architect John Russell Pope’s original blueprints. [Watch]
Director, VFX artist, and CEO Masaki Mizuno at Tokyo prodco Khaki, just dropped us his latest visual experiment, an hypnotic short film where the VFX result from an innovative pipeline where CG drives modified AI tools. [Watch]
After a wildly successful run on the festival circuit (60 awards, 254 selections), Au 8ème Jour, the CG short film by five 5th year students at French digital arts school Piktura, is available for your viewing pleasure. [Watch]
The Stash holiday season officially gets underway with this spot via Shane Griffin and the GRIF.studio crew, a festive CG motion piece whose light tone belies the technical complexity lurking under its luxury surfaces. [Watch]
Brighton-based CD Chris Curtis and his prodco I’m Your Boss dial up the full-on visual splendor to 11 for the on-going Oasis Live ‘25 tour with a loud, joyful, and constantly evolving multi-media collage. [Watch]
Blinkink director Will Wightman channels his real-world roommate nightmares into a fun and frantic short film called This Place is a Sh*thole, a fabulous blend of lo-fi absurdity and technical adventures with a 360 camera. [Watch]
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]
