Heckler Expands Asia-Pacific Presence with Shanghai Launch
October 29, 2025
No one has advanced the art of the smartphone commercial further or faster than director/CG artist Somei Sun (see here and here for recent examples), infusing an otherwise predictable genre with character, atmosphere, and action. [Watch]
The crew at Framstore spins up a tiny metaphor for adaptive stability in this full-CG spot thru agency VML UK for Lombard Odier, a private Swiss bank doing business since George Washington was president. [Watch]
Sekani Solomon, CD at the internal design studio of Block, Inc, delivers a calmly informative (and hunger-inducing) CG brand film for Neighborhoods, a new feature that connects the company’s Cash App and Square ecosystems. [Watch]
For its 10th anniversary edition, Motion Plus Design returns to Paris and the Grand Rex on November 8, 2025, with an exceptional lineup dedicated to the masters of title design. [Watch]
Director and 3D motion designer Freek Freriks just dropped us his latest CG experiment, a short film that balances abstraction with hyperrealism as it merges stone, water, and flora into a meditation called “Wāḥa”, the Arabic word for oasis. [Watch]
The VFX and 3D animation crews at Mathematic in Paris team with LA/PAC director Quentin Deronzier to stage this full-CG show-stopper for Dacia’s diminutive new Hipster Concept EV thru agency Publicis Conseil. [Watch]
Mighty Nice, the Sydney-based animation studio whose recent work you can watch here and here, help Australian telco Telstra launch their in-house creative agency, Roam, with a wandering, chameleon-like character named, yes, Roamy. [Watch]
The 14th edition of KIKK, the international festival of digital and creative cultures, explodes in Belgium Oct 23 with three days of exploration at the intersection of art, design, science, and technology in modern media. [Watch]
In summer 2024, Tendril wowed us with their film introducing the second generation of Figure AI’s humanoid robots, and now they help the Figure 03 make its entrance with this minimalist, elegant, and sartorially sci-fi sequence. [Watch]
Animation, motion graphics, video & other creative folk, join us for an evening of spooky animated Halloween high jinks and drinks at Animorsels Oct 30th in Nottingham with lots of ghoulish short animations. [Watch]
Partners in motion crime, Aggressive and Loop (who we last caught together here), deliver a typographic mini-masterwork with this film from their campaign for the Škoda Vision O concept vehicle produced with CINQ thru FCB London. [Watch]
Having seen many thousands of VFX shots on every conceivable screen, many of us believe we’re immune to their power of making the impossible possible. But now and then, the stars (creative, budget, talent) align and the magic returns. [Watch]
CD Marcus Chaloner (whose work we’ve featured here and here) leads the FutureDeluxe crew in crafting this dreamy mix of live-action and CG for the Vision Xspectra, an AI-enhanced concept vehicle from Chinese EV brand AVATR. [Watch]
The Stash crew are big fans of explainer films for good causes, especially when they nail the art, tone, pacing, and message as perfectly as this one from Jolt Studio for UK charity Pets As Therapy. [Watch]
