Danish Director Casper Balslev Signs with Institute
July 17, 2025
Following on their “Magician” short film from last spring, the team of CD Ezequiel Pini (Six N. Five) and director Sebastián Baptista expand on the surreal dreamscapes of the Cartier Watch universe in “Metamorphose”. [Watch]
Veteran Giant Ant animator and CD Conor Whelan steps into the writer/director role for this tense, atmospheric drama centered on the planet’s one remaining White Rhino and “the splintered morality of our efforts to save it.” [Watch]
Swedish brand Nordic Knots launches its made-to-measure rug collection with help from the CG design and motion team at Frame in Copenhagen who answered the brief with this tactile and welcoming film. [Watch]
In 2022, XK studio dropped a pair of CG motion explorations redefining the boundaries of footwear design (watch here and here). Their latest, XKR_003 | Rehydrate, considers “the shifting states of water and the surreal moments that emerge in-between.” [Watch]
The list of actors portraying KFC founder Col. Harland Sanders is long and often dubious (Rob Lowe, Norm Macdonald, Mario Lopez, Reba McEntire, etc.), so Golden Wolf’s super-powered anime take is certainly a welcome departure. [Watch]
Standing out in the crowded world of advertising awards is a constant challenge but the 2025 British Arrows do it in style with this elaborate and tasteful CG work from director Rüdiger Kaltenhäuser and the motion crew at Glassworks. [Watch]
Following on their two stellar films for the Wilson Airless basketball, ECD Marv Koppejan and the Woodwork Amsterdam crew build out a manifesto film for Wilson Labs, emphasizing the division’s focus on blending craft with innovation. [Watch]
The prestigious Digital Design Days festival launches their satellite event DDDx in Palermo, Sicily on June 27–28 offering new opportunities for inspiration, education, and networking to local communities, organizations, and professionals. [Watch]
In their latest in-house motion experiment, art director Aleksei Komarov and the team at Media.Work conjure a mesmerizing series of CG vignettes that, like the most rewarding literary narratives, are both logical yet wholly unpredictable. [Watch]
LA-based Brazilian director/animator Diego Coutinho reworks an abandoned commercial project as an opportunity for weaving traditional motion techniques with AI tools to explore “a blend of machine capability and human sensitivity”. [Watch]
Flamboyant Paradise directors Javier Lourenço and Álvarez Ortega Bianchi team with composer Pedro Gómez to stage a musical fecal frenzy for animal rights organization PETA while making the point that being vegan is good for your gut. [Watch]
Wizz directing collective CRCR continue their rampage thru the gaming universe with the studio’s first work for Supercell, a blast of animated action to launch mo.co, the new mobile multiplayer monster-hunting RPG. [Watch]
References to St. Sebastian and his close relationship with stringed weaponry are not new in pop culture but this video for Swedish rapper Yung Lean, by Frenzy Paris directing duo Suzie & Leo, is certainly the most visceral. [Watch]
Dublin-based 3D motion designer Mario Domingos responds to a brief from Ireland’s national public broadcaster RTÉ with an exuberant series of brand IDs for their children’s television block RTÉ Kids. [Watch]
