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October 29, 2025
Stitches in Time: Watch Daria Togunova’s New CG Short Film: “Threads of Home”
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]
Love Death + Taxidermy: Polynoid & Woodblock Release “Bye Bear” Short Film
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]
DOT4 Drops New Blender Short Film “SIGNED”
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]
Golden Wolf Gooses the Gore for “Dead by Daylight”
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]
Dancing VFX: Watch Tom Gera’s Short Film “Juno & Sensei”
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]
Meghan Nelson Joins Boston Design Studio Black Math as Chief Strategy Officer
From the release: Black Math is thrilled to announce the appointment of Meghan Nelson as Chief Strategy Officer. She joins the design-first studio to direct bold new creative and technological strategies for the future. [Watch]
