Danish Director Casper Balslev Signs with Institute
July 17, 2025
London design and animation duo Wednesday Studio (aka Iria Lopez and Daniela Negrin Ochoa) celebrate 11 years of working side by side with this joyful “visual love letter” to their creative partnership. [Watch]
Digital Design Days returns for its 10th Anniversary Edition on October 9–11, 2025 in Milan, Italy, bringing together digital innovators, creatives, and visionaries from around the world for three days of inspiration, connection, and transformation. [Watch]
The new z17, which IBM tags as “the first mainframe fully engineered for the AI age” is also a strikingly sculptural piece of computational hardware, as made abundantly clear in this austere yet tactile director’s cut from Tendril. [Watch]
Working with directors David Fincher and Romain Chassaing, London VFX studio 1920 transform dystopian live-action into the proverbial rat race with CG rodent head replacements and crucial environment work in this spot for Xbox thru Droga5. [Watch]
The design and motion team at Polish CG studio Millarc makes their Stash debut with this standout product film highlighting the intricate mechanical ballet of the Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design, the world’s first double-folding smartphone. [Watch]
In their latest for Riot Games, the animation crew at The Line in London conjure a sweeping and richly rendered three-minute fantasy to launch the upcoming second season of League of Legends, Spirit Blossom Beyond. [Watch]
Joyrider director Ruairi Robinson hijacks the text of Rudyard Kipling’s 1903 anti-war poem “Boots” to generate the music and drive the narrative for this exercise in AI filmmaking he says “was produced during a two-week, 16 hour-a-day fever dream.” [Watch]
London director/artist Markos Kay (whose organic motion experiments we’ve featured here), moves his work outdoors onto a multi-screen display in Cyprus positioned to be viewed from inside the patient rooms at a cancer hospital. [Watch]
It’s tough to name a current director/animator more sought after or influential than Alberto Mielgo (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Love, Death & Robots, plus an Oscar) so he gets our full attention when new work drops. [Watch]
Teaming up with showrunner Jonathan Tropper for a third series (after Warrior in 2019 and See in 2021), director John Likens and Method Studios set about shattering Jon Hamm’s world in the titles for Your Friends & Neighbors on Apple TV+. [Watch]
The crew at Scottish prodco Where Giants Roam manage the near impossible by making the launch of a kitchen mixer intriguing (and possibly sexy) with this tasty blend of live-action and sleek CG for Edinburgh brand Ooni. [Watch]
Blinkink director Nicos Livesey heads up an insanely ambitious, craft-centered spot for the streaming service BritBox – a 90-second time-lapse journey through highlights of British TV shot in a single take over the course of 14 hours. [Watch]
Barcelona-based designer/art director Santi Zoraidez strikes a delicate balance in this launch film for Spanish furniture brand Kettal, presenting their Pi room organization system as both dynamic and sophisticated. [Watch]
The motion crew at London’s Form Films constructs a full-CG reveal film for the XP electric motorcycle, a collaboration between vehicle designer Hugo Eccles at UNTLD MOTO and American manufacturer Zero Motorcycles. [Watch]
