Director Reza Dolatabadi, Jorge Aguilera, and Ale Saevich Launch NOBORDER Studio
April 30, 2025
Watch as veteran director Brent Bonacorso reveals how he leveraged AI tools to generate dramatic environments and VFX then combined them with live-action for this moody but ultimately hopeful film for the American Cancer Society. [Watch]
CD Danny Rubyono at motion design boutique Duro in Beaverton, Oregon teams with Istanbul-based designer/animator Sercan Altintas to reimagine the studio’s own branding through a series of four CG bumpers. [Watch]
FINCH director Dougal Wilson, with supporting help from Sydney studios Alt.VFX and Make-up Effects Group, land this playful series of three silent films in Australian cinemas to remind audiences to put their phones on, yes… silent. [Watch]
One minute into this Snoop Dogg cover of the Tom Petty track “Mary Jane’s Last Dance”, Psyop studio partners Temple Caché take over the visuals with a cannabis-fueled mashup of live-action, 2D, 3D, motion design, and AI. [Watch]
Troublemakers directing duo Burcu Sanku and Geoffrey Godet continue to delight with the fifth iteration of their Ramadan campaign for French luxury jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels’ Alhambra Collection thru Paris agency Mazarine. [Watch]
Following on his work for Mercedes-Benz and Acura (here and here), Nexus director Shane Griffin turns his motion talents to the Genesis brand in this tightly crafted CG spot commissioned thru LA agency Innocean. [Watch]
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]
