Heckler Expands Asia-Pacific Presence with Shanghai Launch
October 29, 2025
Our partners at the Telly Awards honor excellence in video and television across all screens, with over 99 animation categories covering advertising, branding, television, and film, including 3D and motion design. [Watch]
The multinational cybersecurity brand Bitdefender launches a new B2C campaign in the US anchored by this unnerving film from 20(SOMETHING) and Territory Studio that leverages AI into a creative weapon against scammers. [Watch]
Nexus Studios’ CD Erwin van den IJssel continues his string of impossible-to-ignore titles for Playgrounds events (see here and here) with this rambunctious motion sequence for the 2025 edition of the In Motion conference in London. [Watch]
Based in Geneva, it was only a matter of time before CG artist Albin Merle ramped up the CG watch wars, and so he has with this spec spot carving a zoetrope into the face of a luxury timepiece from venerable Swiss brand IWC Schaffhausen. [Watch]
The Warsaw post and animation collective LUNAPARK (who are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year), just dropped us their latest CG experiment, a short dance of sound waves and particles exploring how audio is created. [Watch]
Bristol-based illustrator/animator Con McHugh combines forces with Benjamin Chan and Malone Chen at digital design studio TwoMuch to add a little attitude to ON’s premium marathon running shoe, the Cloudboom Max. [Watch]
CDs Milton Gonzalez and Valeria Moreiro lead the NotReal motion and design crew in producing two elegant and informative region-specific films as part of their global campaign for J.P. Morgan’s end-to-end payment solution. [Watch]
SparkerDesign, a motion and branding studio with offices in Shanghai and Singapore, makes their Stash debut with this fashion-forward product film for ByteDance’s Ola Friend AI-powered earbuds. [Watch]
Director/CD Liam O’Connor and the Picnic Studio animation crew cram a myriad of styles into this explosive and expletive-filled film for digital insurance brand BreachBunny thru agency Adouken, all powered by a soundtrack from Antfood. [Watch]
Barcelona-based designer and digital artist Ezequiel Pini (aka Six N. Five), whose personal and commercial work we follow here, just released this meditative and graceful short film “where nature is reimagined through digital matter.” [Watch]
Melbourne director Luke Bicevskis and his team at The Sequence Group layer mycelium micro-photography with atmospheric footage and shocks of color to set an ominous tone for the documentary series Death Cap Murders. [Watch]
The snappy campaign for the Vear Beats Pill Speaker (a collab with Japanese graphic artist Verdy) continues with a second animated CG film via BOL Production House and the character animation team at Buda.tv in Buenos Aries. [Watch]
Greenpoint Pictures directors The Roos Brothers (Josh and Logan) merge atmosphere and adrenaline in this intro for Kawasaki’s supercharged Teryx H2 UTV with motion design and post treatments from Toronto studio REACTIV. [Watch]
Turns out there’s a whole 3-day conference focused on the design side of soccer. It’s called Cultura FC and it just wrapped in San Diego, where it opened with this hypnotic blast of typography from the motion crew at Laundry in LA. [Watch]
