“Butterfly” Unfolds on Amazon With Main Titles by Sarofsky

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]

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Daniel Kleinman & Nexus Studios “Play Dirty” With Shane Black and Amazon Prime

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]

Erwin van den IJssel and Nexus Studios Open Playgrounds In Motion 2025 in London

Nexus Studios’ CD Erwin van den IJssel continues his string of impossible-to-ignore titles for Playgrounds events (see here and here) with this rambunctious motion sequence for the 2025 edition of the In Motion conference in London. [Watch]

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Fonts of Youth: Laundry Opens Cultura FC Design Conference

Turns out there’s a whole 3-day conference focused on the design side of soccer. It’s called Cultura FC and it just wrapped in San Diego, where it opened with this hypnotic blast of typography from the motion crew at Laundry in LA. [Watch]

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Design Handiwork: XK Studio Opens OFFFMX 2025

XK studio directors Alexa Sirbu and Lukas Vojir add a playful touch to their signature CG motion experiments in this sequence that opened the 2025 edition of the OFFFMX design conference in Mexico City. [Watch]

OddBeast Opens Half Rez 2025 With Light & Landscapes

The 2025 edition of Half Rez launched in Chicago on Friday with this rousing vision crafted by Oddbeast co-founder/ECD Kevin Gautraud who calls the film a “Sagan-inspired meditation on our small moment in the vastness of time.” [Watch]