Studio Private Expands Roster with Immersive Director Stephen Whelan
November 5, 2025
Director Anna Ginsburg, whose wonderfully off-kilter work we track here, just released a dizzying trailer for her latest short film, a dark comedy about “breakups, impending doom, and the monstrous pressures of modern womanhood.” [Watch]
The Sharks, until now, always combined Design with advertising at our festival/awards. However over the past few years, we’ve been listening to a LOT of Designers who, simply put, would prefer their own dedicated awards. [Watch]
Berlin-based 3D artist Daria Togunova merges her longing for home with a mastery of Houdini and Redshift to craft a very tactile short film “capturing small fragments of people I love and translating them into 3D embroidery.” [Watch]
Woodblock, the Berlin studio founded by directing collective Polynoid in 2013, just dropped us their latest magnum opus, Bye Bear – a short film that writer/director Jan Bitzer labels a fever dream and an homage to David Lynch. [Watch]
Setting out to prove how far they “can push high-intensity motion design”, CDs Kay Hilman, Boris Bouwmeester, and their team at DOT4 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, construct a CG exercise in re-imagining the ordinary. [Watch]
If you’re looking to get a jump on your Halloween inspiration, the Golden Wolf animation crew have you covered with this intense gore-fest, aka the launch trailer for the latest chapter of Behaviour Interactive’s Dead by Daylight survival game. [Watch]
Amsterdam-based film director and digital artist Tom Gera just dropped us his latest short film, a dramatic power struggle built with live-action choreography enhanced with Unreal Engine, AI-assisted image manipulation, and 3D scanning. [Watch]
Nella Addy, director/co-founder at London animation studio Feral Child, and MJZ director Steve Ayson are back with another animated musical comedy for Life360, this time for the launch of the app’s Pet GPS tracker. [Watch]
Intimate design details are bound together with the technical inner workings of Bentley’s hybrid power train in this director’s cut compiled from three films by the CG motion crew at Found in London and the agency team at McCann. [Watch]
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]
