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March 31, 2025
The future of drone technology (complete with airbag) finds a riveting showcase in this CG concept product film courtesy of SAES DesignHouse, an innovation lab division of Italian industrial and materials innovator SAES Getters. [Watch]
Radugadesign, whose ambitious motion installations we track here, adds a splash of childhood wonder to the lux interiors of the MGM Cotai Hotel in Macau with this massive multi-screen project. [Watch]
Milan-based CG motion house Studio Sentempo elevates Italian natural supplements brand Mooor above a very crowded category with this quietly elegant film based on branding and packaging work by ET Studio in Verona. [Watch]
The director/animators at Werlen Meyer worked with Paris prodco Eddy and agency Publicis Luxe to create an enchanting mix of 2D and 3D animation in this Cartier spot celebrating the Lunar New Year. [Watch]
UK CG motion studio DissEmbargo, aka Sebastian Helene and The Dink, creates a palpable sense of intrigue and envy using only light, diffusion, and product shots in this pair of films for US hair and skin care brand Prose. [Watch]
Fabio Brigido and João Paz, who head up the new Mullenlowe Design Studio in NYC, combine forces with ROOF director (and fellow Brazilian) Guto Terni on this crazed call-for-entries campaign for the ADC Annual Awards, the industry’s longest running award show. [Watch]
In 2022, artist/motion designer Oliver Latta (aka Extraweg) won the Main Title Design Emmy for his landmark Severance open. The good news is, with season 2, he doubles down on the surreality and expands the scope of the imagery. [Watch]
Creative director Max Zhang and the design and motion team at Flatwhite Motion in Qingdao, China, layer up hanzi typography and a flurry of products in this tightly choreographed film for the JD Furniture Festival. [Watch]
The latest motion work from veteran French creative collective Pleix builds effervescence and refraction into a level of luxury befitting Moët & Chandon’s Collection Impériale champagne, a cuvée released to mark the brand’s 280th anniversary. [Watch]
Follow director Henning M. Lederer (whose obsession with animating book covers we follow here), on his intricate motion journey for the track “I Exist Inside This Machine”, an audio collab between Max Cooper and Aneek Thapar. [Watch]
The latest work from Tendril’s motion team for ESPN’s coverage of the College Football Playoffs presents a stylistic departure from their previous work but retains all the visceral energy and visual innovation we’ve come to expect. [Watch]
With innovative animation from LOBO set to the plaintive vocals of Billie Holiday, this short film produced for non-profit SAFE Project thru FCB Health New York provides a powerful metaphor to stick with your dry (or damp) January. [Watch]
If the sense of joy from your work has ebbed lately, this new personal motion project from Paris-based animator and graphic designer Kimathi Flavien should help you remember the fun that designing for design sake can bring. [Watch]
Savants, the pan-European directing collective who opened the 1.4 Awards in London last year with this piece of whimsy, set a vastly different tone in this elemental brand film for the innovative Milan-based denim label TRC 2038. [Watch]
